Gay dating on instagram

Instagram is making Grindr irrelevant in 2019

Years ago I was dating someone who opened my eyes to the emergence of Instagram as a dating app. For the document, we didn’t encounter online – it was an ecological encounter (gasp!)- and so we had no prior understanding of each other. Inevitably the ask of ” what apps are you on?” came up. So I told him that I was on Grindr and he informed me he didn’t use “hook up apps.” When I asked about social media, he confessed his love for Instagram.

After a rare more dates, I deleted my Grindr on his demand. I, however, did not ask him to delete his Instagram. That would be ludicrous, right? One is a hook up app and the other is a joy app to contribute photos with your social network. Or so I thought…

The irony of it all

Over occasion it became dispel to me that there was more than met the eye for his affinity for Instagram. Being an adept user of the app, he knew how to entice followers using hashtags and comments and then making friends by commenting and eventually sliding into the DMs. It dawned on me that he was using the app in the similar way I had been using Grindr. The difference was that Grindr has a