‘Why am I not getting any matches? Am I too fat?’

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Matchmaking applications can promote eating disorders. At least, this is what the most recent reports on the matter indicate; In a study published in 2017 in the Body Image journal, for instance, they compared body image problems between Tinder users and non-users. “Tinder users, regardless of gender, reported significantly lower levels of satisfaction with face and body and higher levels of internalization, appearance comparisons, and body-shame and surveillance than non-users,” says the article, which highlights that the problem occurs at the moment of swiping, when, in a matter of seconds, a person is rejected for their image.

Users “may begin to (a) feel depersonalized in their social interactions, with the focus being primarily on sex; (b) develop a heightened awareness (and criticism) of their bodies; and (c) believe that there is always something with the next swipe of their screen, even while questioning their own worth,” states the report.

A Harvard School of Public Health article titled Dating app use and unhealthy weight control behaviors among a sample of U.S. adults: a cross-sectional study found to what extent users of apps like Tinder are more likely to put their health at risk in order to lose weight and fit into the prevailing beauty canon. The report evaluates the cross-sectional association between dating app use and six unhealthy weight control behaviors such as fasting, diet pill use, laxative use, self-induced vomiting, the use of muscle-building supplements and the use of anabolic steroids. The conclusion is that people who use dating apps are 2.7 to 16.2 times more likely to develop an eating disorder.

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