It does. Not just from the sociological standpoint, the way online dating in general is horrible has been discussed to death already, but I'd also like to point out that the app is horrendous garbage from a technology standpoint.

It's not some kind of a complicated piece of software, it can't do anything but filter profiles based on a few criteria (sex, age, proximity), match them, and it has a very rudimentary messaging system. All three of those features were broken last time I used the fucking thing:

• Filtering profiles: Back in the ancient, pre-coof days, I was on a week-long business trip to Ireland. One evening when we were in a pub we started talking about the women we kept seeing around with some coworkers who, like me, have never been to Ireland before. One of them says "you haven't seen shit yet, open Tinder if you have it and take a look". He was right, it was a freakshow, but the reason I'm even mentioning this is that Tinder then decided I was in Ireland forever and kept showing me Irish women for at least another month, long after I came back home and was now over a thousand km away. Yes, I had location services on, the fucking thing just didn't bother checking.

• Matching: I remember one time I matched with someone. I actually even recognized her, I've met her before a few years ago, so I was like hey, great, I have something to start with for once! Except the profile never showed up in my matches. Why? My best guess is that the woman in question swiped right on me at some point, and then deleted her profile later, but Tinder still showed it to me and allowed me to match with it. Why? Checking whether the profile actually exists before serving it up isn't rocket surgery.

• Messaging: The thing routinely loses messages and it almost never notifies you when you receive a new one. I quickly learned that the first thing to do is ask for literally any other kind of messenger. Sending messages over the internet between two points is a problem that was solved before the average Tinder employee was born for fuck's sake.

Tinder is an app with the complexity of a weekend project, and it fails miserably at nearly everything it does. Oh, I'm sure payment processing for the premium (or gold or whatever they call it) works flawlessly - not that I've ever used it, I'm not retarded - but everything else about it is incredibly amateurish. These experiences aren't from when it was new, either, I used it long after it became THE online dating service because it became so popular it destroyed everything else.