Despite having navigated the exact same unforgiving relationship scene that almost every other twenty-something heterosexual girl attending university into the ’10s (maybe most useful described in the decidedly unsexy economics term to be a customer in a vendor’s market) has faced, it absolutely wasn’t until a year or more after graduation that we finally journeyed to the realm of dating apps.

I had never questioned the security of employing a dating application until We started communicating with David.* After a few casual communications about pizza additionally the hangout spots that are best when you look at the town, we chose to get together, and then he gave me their telephone number. We Googled him to see I stumbled upon multiple social media threads in which a number of women from the city where he used to live accused him of date rape and stalking if he was actually cute, given some questionable photo choices on his profile.Instead.