When High50 's Monica Porter tried Tinder for the first time she was irritated by unreliable young men, but on using the dating app again this year she found guys in their 30s 'like teenagers after some fun'. I first downloaded Tinder on to my smartphone in the summer of , soon after the innovative new dating app was launched in the UK. That was the year of my great Internet dating adventure and it seemed an intriguing experiment to try.
The fact that I had turned 61 two weeks earlier didn't bother me. I could always lie about my age. When I discovered that Tinder automatically takes some basic details from your Facebook profile, including your correct age, I cringed with embarrassment.
I knew this Tinder business was a young person's game. I'd be laughed out of court. Not so! Far from putting off the legions of something men looking for 'action', my age was virtually an aphrodisiac for many of them. The fact is, young men always have and always will fantasize about older women. Most striking is the large number of men in their mid-to-late 30s who have not yet settled into long-term relationships.
So I became Tinderised. I had my escapades, some exciting, others less so. But after only three weeks I deleted my account. The thing about young men, especially in today's digital world, where all arrangements are subject to change and attention spans are minuscule, is that they are infuriatingly unreliable.
So, call me old-fashioned, but in the end I simply got fed up with their flighty behavior. Fast-forward a couple of years.
