Do you use dating apps? You should know about this

Dating apps in the 21st century have introduced a whole new vocabulary of acronyms and phrases. Whoever uses it knows what it means GOSH (good sense of humor), WTML (I would like to meet) or NSA (no strings attached).

According to Ofcom statistics published in January, more than one in 10 British adults use online dating sites. Tinder alone is used by 2.49 million adults.

The development of this type of application has brought a new language in which many young single people explain what they are looking for in life using these clusters of capital letters.

But now that's starting to change. For many people, these acronyms seem illegible. Especially for those older ones who didn't grow up on the Internet. Some even claim that these abbreviations can “repel” or even “isolate people.”

The use of acronyms isolates people who don't know what they mean. Someone who meets the criteria but doesn't know what an acronym means decides not to bother and gives up. It's better to communicate your desires in simple language.

– says Jacob Lucas, a dating coach from Westbury.

To use acronyms or not?

Of course the answer will be “it depends”. Acronyms can be useful if you want to filter out people who don't understand the jargon. We can also treat them as additional learning, which supplements knowledge about etiquette in dating applications. However, if we are looking for someone new, it may be worth thinking twice before using a given shortcut and not limiting ourselves to a group of people who have not had contact with them before and simply do not understand them.

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