Tinder and Impact on Personal and Social Life

Abstract

New media comes from old media innovations that are less relevant to technological developments in the present era. New Media also has a significant impact on people’s lives, especially in the utilization of internet in everyday life, for example the presence of followers among Indonesian society. Tinder which is a media search mate that often makes its users do front stage and backstage, so that identity becomes biased. it is a change in the pattern of community dating due to sites and online applications. Who are these followers? This is what will be studied by using the theory of Dramaturgy Ervin Goffman and also The Self George Herbert Mead theory. In addition it will also examine from the side of communication and new media as its intermediary. The concepts used Psychology Communication, new media and new media impact. Judging from how people’s behavior change after using tinder, and the effect they get in social life. The type of research used is qualitative with case study method. Using key informants and informers Tinder media users by conducting in-depth interviews. The results of this study are, there are some users who perform Tinder life drama and try to convince him into everyday life. But there are also those who use the tinder as a medium expressing themselves freely without any rules that bind it in the real world. . Users can choose the type of gender that matches the desired criteria and can communicate in the chat room if they press the same “like” button. The front begins with the users creating a self profile so that their appearance is visible and can be selected as friends who will continue to talk in private. Tools to express themselves is through photos. While the back side or The Self are all activities that are hidden to complement the success of self appearance,on the Front. In this case there is one user who makes his profile to be single when already married. They confess with the use of Tinder does make an impact on their personal and social life. They are like having two different lives. Some continue because they have been dragged into the dramatic use of tinder, showing existence in front of other users, looking for the other type of gender for a relationship, but some are later aware and stopped. Keyword: Tinder, Dramaturgy, Psychology Communication 230 Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). International Conference on Psychology and Communication 2018 (ICPC 2018) Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research (ASSEHR), volume 219