My Week On Tinder: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Tinder [VIDEO]

Every guy's name is Michael, Ryan or Eric.

Or Mike, Brian or Erik.

At least all the 25-32 year-old guys within 25 miles of me.

In a kind of social experiment, I finally gave into my friend's request that I sign up for Tinder on Friday after work. It was obviously a combination of peer pressure, lack of sleep and knowing that I would be spending most of my weekend with her, plus it's blog research. We radio personalities will do anything for a blog....

So we signed me up on Friday and I already have a lot to tell you guys about this so-called "hook-up" app.

Seriously I have a week's worth of updates coming your way, starting with the 5 things you didn't know about Tinder. Most of us know the basics of Tinder, that you swipe one way for yes and one way for no, but I bet you didn't know all five of these things.

1. You have to have a Facebook account to sign up for Tinder. I had no idea you needed Facebook to do Tinder. It makes sense I guess, Facebook rules the world. So when you download the Tinder app, you sign in through Facebook, and thus your profile is created using your first name, your age and your current Facebook profile picture. You can then go in and change/add more photos, but the photo must be in one of your Facebook albums.
2. There are swingers on Tinder. Sure you knew you'd run into some people who were a little strange on Tinder, but you will also run into couples that want you to be their third wheel. But not in the traditional third wheel way.
3. There is a way to not have to choose "yes" or "nope." When the guy pops up on your screen, you have a choice of clicking a red 'x,' or a green heart to say 'yes.' But sometimes you don't want to have to choose one or the other. No, not because it's that stressful or anything, just weird personal Michelle reasons, and so you're stuck. You can't move on to the next person without swiping. Except, I figured out how you can! You have two options. You can either close the app and wait until you're not in the same location and open it again, or you can go into your settings and change the Tinder search location distance preference. Poof, new guy without having to pick "nope" or "green heart."
4. All of your non-single friends want to play with your Tinder. Every. Single. One of them. Maybe it's because they found their true love before the age of swiping, or it's because they just want another reminder of why they are so lucky that they're not single. Or maybe they just like looking at dudes, whatever it is, they want to play with it, so at least let them watch you swipe. Or hand over your phone for a few hours, like I did, your best friends know you well enough to make some clicks.
5. You are going to find a LOT of people you know. I think I'm on person #10 that I know. I have a pretty amazing memory so this number might be higher for me than other people, but I guarantee you'll find someone you know, unless of course you don't know anyone who lives by you. But, I do. Because I've lived in my house for most of my life. I've currently run into people I went to high school with, people I went to college with, siblings of my Facebook friends, people who've tried to hit on me before and one very ironic person. You will most likely too.

Bonus things you didn't know. Tinder is additive. I had swiping dreams last night. Also, guys want to tell you how tall they are, but they want to make it seem like someone forced them too, it's weird, but as Sweet Lenny and Lori said, I can't date someone who is 5' 4".

More Tinder news for you tomorrow.