Can you really find your true love on Tinder?

So what is Tinder? Well, Tinder is a mobile dating app where you get shown copious amounts of other people's pictures and you swipe right for 'HOT' and left for 'NOT' (a bit crude, I know), if both people 'swipe right' to each others' picture then this means you have matched (hurray!) and only when this happens can you actually start communicating with them. So basically, you could be the loveliest person in the world, but if someone doesn't think you're attractive, there is really no way to talk to them...ever - a bit sad really, I know! (Well I say 'ever' but that depends how good your Facebook stalking skills are). You also set your preferences for men or women and you can also set your distance for how many miles away you want your 'matches' to be.
Tinder is something that basically everyone I know has tried, not really out of looking for love but more for something to do, to have several amounts of people to share your "banter" with, to see if there really is a more cheesy chat up line than 'I've lost my phone number, can I have yours?' - "no mate, you cannot", and of course to see if any of your pals have found their way onto the dating app so you can have a laugh together about what the world has come to!
At the start of this year, I made myself a Tinder account, really I just wanted to see what the hype was about, I definitely wasn't looking for anything more than someone to talk to about my love for Disney movies. All of my matches seemed to blend into one person, where I couldn't really tell them apart since everyone was sporting the typical man bun and beard and the bios of 'I love a cheeky Nandos with the boys' (are they actually being serious?). 
Until one day when I matched with Jack (someone that seemed genuinely lovely from the start, there must be a catch...surely?!), bearing in mind he lives in Warrington (58 miles away from where I live, Colwyn Bay) and I'm positive I had not set my distance to be that far away! He started to talk to me first, opening with a set of 'what do you prefer' questions - one of them being New Girl or Gossip Girl (to which I find out later Gossip Girl is his guilty pleasure) and then he ended that with a funny but "too soon" crude remark that simply cannot be repeated (soz), which even he followed up with "Is this the part where you stop talking to me now?", but I did carry on because as cringey as it sounds he did actually seem interesting and funny and possibly, maybe, slightly, very gorgeous.

(Just so you know I have recreated this image, we both don't still have this app, that would be weird!)

We seemed to talk for what seemed like ages when reality it probably wasn't for very long. He was keen for us to meet up but I was SO nervous, he seemed like such a lovely person yet I know how shy I am and I kept playing out ways in which the date could go terribly wrong in my head. Especially when it took me 36 missed call attempts to build up the courage to answer my first ever phone call from him - oops! There was also a joke between us that I was a catfish (a catfish is what Nev and Max would describe as someone pretending to be someone they're not, using social media) because I wasn't keen to meet up with him at first, when really it was just because of my nerves, to be honest, I never really considered  that he could have actually been one too!

When we did meet on the 5th of February, since I was still so nervous about the whole situation (never having met someone from online before) he said that he would meet me in Conwy - seems like a cute enough place to meet someone for the first time and have a first date...right? At the time instead of being at Warrington he was in Stafford at uni (95 miles away, I know poor guy, I really did make him work for this first date didn't I?).

Thankfully, when we did meet it was all as perfect as it was when we were just messaging each other, it seemed as though we really knew each other when actually we had only just met. It was such a surreal feeling - it's hard to get your head around meeting someone from online, when originally just texting them didn't seem as though they were actually real. But then, obviously as the day was ending, it wasn't just as easy as saying "I'll see you tomorrow" because the distance didn't allow for us to see each other everyday, yet we left each other on that day 100% knowing we would definitely meet up again - and we have been ever since! After being together 9 months and counting our relationship is still as exciting as it was in the very beginning and nothing gets in the way, even though we do live a while a part, the drive I have to make in the car seems like nothing when I know I'll be able to see Jack at the end of it (aww, I can be a bit cute sometimes).

So, when everyone in this generation grows older and our grandchildren are asking us how we met our partners, will the majority of us be saying "Well, it was this funny app called Tinder" or by then will Tinder and other online dating apps be what everyone deems to be the 'normal' style of dating?