TikTok is proof that people can make any social media network into a dating app

This year Mashable is celebrating the season of love with Horny on Main, an exploration of the many ways that thirsting for sex affects our lives.   Every app eventually becomes a dating app. With Twitter and Instagram users sliding into each others’ DMs, and Facebook trying to jack Tinder’s swag, it certainly appears that way. Even sites like Next Door, a social network site for neighborhoods, get in on the action with thirsty posts from users looking for dates (or, let's be real, hookups). Is TikTok any different? “Users aren’t going on there to swipe left and right to match with someone,” Andrew Selepak, PhD, a media professor at the University of Florida and director of the graduate program in social media there, told Mashable. “But it doesn’t mean that people are not meeting on there, or starting relationships from virtual meetings over social media,” he continued. Like Twitter and Instagram, TikTok is the latest iteration of the “slide into DMs”-type of online dating.  Read more...More about Dating App, Sex And Relationships, James Charles, Tiktok, and Horny On Main