Strava, the famous social network for sportsmen, would it become the “new Tinder”? The question arises regularly on social networks, especially abroad.
Indeed, for a year, the application, which allows the cause of recording and sharing its performance, has developed new features. It is now possible to comment on the performance of others via the news feed, but also send private messages … which can cause certain rapprochements.
Traditional “embarrassing” apps
According to Tyler Swartz, founder of the sleeping racing group, “people grant more values” to “a kudo (equivalent of the ” ‘like’ ‘button) on Strava than on Instagram, because it is more intimate”, he said to TF1. But how does the platform – which brings together more than 135 million athletes around the world, almost twice as much as Tinder -, would it favor the beginning of a love story than the traditional meeting applications?
According to Athlé explained, it would be thanks to “a common passion” of sport and shared “authenticity” (photos and performance). The features also make it possible to be “less intrusive” than with a “swipe”, to organize collective outings, to find yourself in groups or to launch challenges.
“By sharing the same centers of interest and leisure, you can share these valued times,” notes the sociologist of sport Nicolas Penin in an interview with DNA. According to Serena Kerrigan, influencer and expert in dating applications cited by national television, the Bumbles, Hinge and others have become “annoying”.
“A legend”
On networks, Internet users assure that “the woman and/or the ideal man” is not on Tinder, but on Strava. But whether on X or Reddit, users of the platform think that “this statement is a legend”. In the same context as other apps, Strava simply allows you to “connect to different people in a way that you probably could not do before,” comments Serena Kerrigan. And uses differ according to users …
Beware of the limits. As Athlé explained, with Strava, recalls, each race leaves a digital trace, and women have already undergone harassment from other users. It is therefore necessary not to disclose too much information on your privacy, to report all displaced behaviors and to update its confidentiality parameters.
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You can also leave Strava if your goal is not only monitoring your sports exploits (and those of others), and opt for another application whose aim is really to become the “Tinder of Sport”. Our journalist noted in September that there have been many in recent years like Altclub, a “social network” with 100,000 users, imagined to “find sports partners”. “But as on all social networks, there may be more if affinities,” said the creator of the application, Eloi Castarède, at BFM Business.
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