Sometimes the struggle can be real – all that swiping, but where are the matches?

Then there’s the inane conversation – what you do, where you live, how cold it is – bla bla bla, I guess it’s a necessary evil.

Well what if you had a little safety in numbers, and landing a hot date didn’t mean your flirt game had to be as on point.

Say hello to Tinder Social, the new feature that’s going to tear groups of mates competing for the same date apart. Here’s CNET:

The app has started giving people the ability to make matches as groups with a new feature called Tinder Social.

“Tinder Social is designed to make it as easy as possible to plan your night, get out into the real world and meet new people,” Tinder CEO and co-founder Sean Rad said Thursday in a statement…

If you use Tinder, you can unlock the social function (or avoid it altogether) in the app and create a group with one to three of your friends who have opted-in to the function. Your group picks a status like “watch the game with us” or “happy hour,” and the usual swiping commences.

It just takes one person from each group to swipe right on each other for two groups to be matched. Once a match is made, the members of each group can chat about plans. The conversation expires by noon the next day.

If a member isn’t loving the group dynamics, he or she can leave the group. Or, the person who created the group in the first place can also chose to shut it down.

Hurrah for group dates, although depending on your age single friends can often be hard to come by.

The feature is not yet available in South Africa, so you still have plenty of time to consider which of your friends are attractive enough to bring out in public, yet not attractive enough to steal your thunder.

[source:cnet]