Ever since Tinder's launch in 2012, and its increasing popularity in the years following, getting a date has become easier than ever.
Back in the day, organising a date meant you'd actually have to talk to a girl face-to-face, making a great first impression, and then exchanging numbers before heading to a low-key, cheap Italian restaurant. Now, one right-swipe each and you've pretty much bypassed the first date and the bedroom is already in sight.
Along with the cheesy chat-up lines, gifs and memes that are typically shared between two people who have matched on Tinder, is quite a bit of uncertainty. For one, because you've never previously met, you only have a faint idea of what the other looks like. Recently, Instagram model Anna Victoria revealed how misleading pictures on social media can be. Applying the same logic to Tinder, a girl could think she's matched with Brad Pitt but it's actually Benjamin Button.
For even the most inexperienced online dater, being weary of who you're meeting or conversing with is obvious. There are other rules, though.
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Something that you maybe thought would never need to be said, is that you must always realise when you might be 'double-dipping'.
This lad matched with a girl he'd already slept with, but somehow completely forgot that they'd ever met, let alone shared a night together.
The girl on the other end of the app remembered their first meeting, but quickly cottoned on that the old flame hadn't. As any of us would, she had a bit of fun with him.
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The girl's housemate posted the exchange on Twitter, slightly mirroring a situation Joey Tribiani found himself in during an episode of Friends.
In that episode, Joey found himself in a flat that he was 99% sure he'd had sex in before, but couldn't remember sleeping with the girl he'd gone there with. As it turns out, he'd slept with his current date's flatmate, meaning he wasn't a total pig, but still a bit of a pig.
This lad completely outdoes the soap star, though.
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Because he'd forgotten, which is a pretty big slap in the face, the girl in question decided she'd have a bit of fun with him.
Instead of coming straight out and saying that they've done the deed before, she decided that she'd tell him a story about a lad she'd met on Tinder and slept with. Of course, she was referring to him, saying that he was so bad in bed she had to kick him out early.
Eventually she let him know of their previous endeavour and things got a little extra awkward.
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After catching on the fella backtracks, saying he presumably forgot about their first meeting due to the embarrassment that it caused.
To add to his uneasiness, when he asks whether the girl and her housemates 'took the piss when he left', she doesn't bother to sugar coat it and tells him yes.
Could have been worse I suppose. These two lads were on the wrong side of an unfortunate glitch on the app, which told them they were both chatting to girl, rather than each other.
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It's not until one of them reveals that they're a lad called Conor that they both realise they've had a nightmare.
This is who the guy who saved the screenshots thought he was speaking to:
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The misled lad who took the screenshots later found out that his profile was showing up as this:
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There's a lot to be learned from other people's online dating mistakes, which pretty much makes social media a blessing. If these kind of things didn't go viral we'd all be neck deep in people we've already slept with, dates with 22-year-old men and unlimited embarrassment.
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