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Singleton sets up honest tinder showing how she’s really spending time in isolation

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Singleton sets up honest tinder showing how she’s really spending time in isolation

Singleton sets up honest tinder showing how she’s really spending time in isolation

A fed up singleton has set up an HONEST TINDER to show boys how she's really spending time in isolation - including photos of her filing her feet.Bored of the shallow matches she was making on dating apps, advertising intern Gabriella Old set up her own 'honest tinder'. The week-old Instagram account, @honest_tinder highlights the real ways the advertising grad is filling her day - watering plants, treating her spots and filing her feet. Her housemate and friends take the photos through her bedroom window, with Gabs then sending her Tinder matches to look at her 'real' account instead. Talking of her 'quarantindering' Gabriella, 23, said: "I'm cutting the bullshit to get right to the nitty-gritty of real life to make sure people can handle it." "On your dating profile you filter out any flaws and then often three months down the line, the person you've been seeing runs for the hills as soon as you unveil your true self."But when you're in self-isolation you can't go and do the usual showy-offy dating pictures."I'm documenting the dullest moments of my day - it's all the things I do but that I wouldn't normally tell people. "Sometimes I tell my friends things that I am thinking of doing and they say 'oh Gabs that's disgusting, why do you do that.' "I think, 'okay brilliant that's the reaction that I want.  "I'm giving followers a window into my world - each week I unveil a new bad habit or flaw that I would usually hide and film it through the window." Like any other millennial, dating has not been easy in a world of apps and social media. "Typically it gets to three months in and they either ghost me or they decide they aren't ready to commit. "I think guys panic and think I'm going to want to marry them. In January she was dating a guy before the above played out. "Plus all it's based on looks - I'm not a shallow person but when you've got five photos and then not much else but it's hard to go on anything else." "Also the way you can just throw it away - you can pick dating up and put it down whenever you get bored."Like you don't know why someone has dropped your conversation and similarly you might suddenly not feel like doing it."And also the amount of time it takes - it takes quite a bit of time to find someone you like and then get talking to them. "And then if you go on the date and don't click, it's quite a lot of wasted time."Cornwall-born Gabs tends to go for personality over looks - someone creative, family-orientated, funny. If you're a surfer you'll gain bonus points. The account gained 150 followers in less than a week, some of them guys Gabs met on Tinder and encouraged to 'swipe right into my DMs.' A few have even sent her feedback on the account, with follower @gregfitzwillz saying: "Gabs, this has made me laugh so much!

I love it and I'm totally with you!"He added: "Honestly the funniest thing!

You're confronting everyone's frustrations with dating and I love it." Another said: "I've seen everything and I still wanna talk to you. "I doubt I'm the only one." For Gabs, it was less about confronting those frustrations and more about empowering other single ladies attempting to navigate the world of online dating. "I'm showing people that they can be themselves to the person that they might want to be with really."She added: "You want to find someone who likes those flaws or isn't bothered by them." 

A fed up singleton has set up an HONEST TINDER to show boys how she's really spending time in isolation - including photos of her filing her feet.Bored of the shallow matches she was making on dating apps, advertising intern Gabriella Old set up her own 'honest tinder'.

The week-old Instagram account, @honest_tinder highlights the real ways the advertising grad is filling her day - watering plants, treating her spots and filing her feet.

Her housemate and friends take the photos through her bedroom window, with Gabs then sending her Tinder matches to look at her 'real' account instead.

Talking of her 'quarantindering' Gabriella, 23, said: "I'm cutting the bullshit to get right to the nitty-gritty of real life to make sure people can handle it." "On your dating profile you filter out any flaws and then often three months down the line, the person you've been seeing runs for the hills as soon as you unveil your true self."But when you're in self-isolation you can't go and do the usual showy-offy dating pictures."I'm documenting the dullest moments of my day - it's all the things I do but that I wouldn't normally tell people.

"Sometimes I tell my friends things that I am thinking of doing and they say 'oh Gabs that's disgusting, why do you do that.'

"I think, 'okay brilliant that's the reaction that I want.

"I'm giving followers a window into my world - each week I unveil a new bad habit or flaw that I would usually hide and film it through the window." Like any other millennial, dating has not been easy in a world of apps and social media.

"Typically it gets to three months in and they either ghost me or they decide they aren't ready to commit.

"I think guys panic and think I'm going to want to marry them.

In January she was dating a guy before the above played out.

"Plus all it's based on looks - I'm not a shallow person but when you've got five photos and then not much else but it's hard to go on anything else." "Also the way you can just throw it away - you can pick dating up and put it down whenever you get bored."Like you don't know why someone has dropped your conversation and similarly you might suddenly not feel like doing it."And also the amount of time it takes - it takes quite a bit of time to find someone you like and then get talking to them.

"And then if you go on the date and don't click, it's quite a lot of wasted time."Cornwall-born Gabs tends to go for personality over looks - someone creative, family-orientated, funny.

If you're a surfer you'll gain bonus points.

The account gained 150 followers in less than a week, some of them guys Gabs met on Tinder and encouraged to 'swipe right into my DMs.'

A few have even sent her feedback on the account, with follower @gregfitzwillz saying: "Gabs, this has made me laugh so much!

I love it and I'm totally with you!"He added: "Honestly the funniest thing!

You're confronting everyone's frustrations with dating and I love it." Another said: "I've seen everything and I still wanna talk to you.

"I doubt I'm the only one." For Gabs, it was less about confronting those frustrations and more about empowering other single ladies attempting to navigate the world of online dating.

"I'm showing people that they can be themselves to the person that they might want to be with really."She added: "You want to find someone who likes those flaws or isn't bothered by them." 




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