Tinder is the best dog dating app available that will delight millions of users around the world. Having spawned an entire industry and cultural acceptance of the shift, it has a lot to offer as well as a lot to answer. TechJunkie covers quite a lot of Tinder topics and answers as many questions as we can. This question particularly intrigued me. ‘Will Tinder reactivate my Facebook account if I use it to sign up? I want to use it to login as it is faster but I left Facebook last year. What will happen?’
This is not our usual question, so I think it’s worth a detailed answer. I’ll answer the question first and then summarize a few reasons why you might not want to link Tinder to Facebook.
Will Tinder reactivate my Facebook account?
A kind of. To use your Facebook account with Tinder, it must be active. You cannot create a new Tinder account with an expired or closed Facebook account. If you try, it won’t work. If you want to create an account using FB, you must first reactivate your Facebook account and secondly set up Tinder for it to be live.
Tinder connects to your Facebook account but cannot make changes to the account itself. It can send, receive pictures, and read your account details, but cannot reactivate the account for you. You will have to do this yourself.
If you try to log into Tinder with a disabled Facebook account, it will ask you to log into Facebook. Signing in will reactivate your account and then allow you to use it to sign in to Tinder.
What happens if you delete Facebook while using Tinder?
How about if you’re approaching the problem from the opposite side and use both Facebook and Tinder but want to turn Facebook off? The answer is, if you use Facebook to log into Tinder, you will no longer be able to use the dating app. If you used your phone number instead, it wouldn’t make any difference.
You can always create a new Tinder account, and there are many reasons why it’s a good idea, but it’s more work and involves creating new images and losing any matches or contacts you have.
The lawsuit for not connecting Tinder to Facebook
The above is one reason not to create your Tinder account linked to Facebook. If you, like many after Cambridge Analytica, want to close your Facebook account, you are stuck. This isn’t specific to Tinder, but will apply to most apps where you choose the ‘Sign Up with Facebook’ option.
Some let you switch account so you can unplug Facebook from them but Tinder isn’t one of them as far as I can see.
The second reason for not connecting Tinder to Facebook is separation. While Tinder doesn’t share every aspect of your love life on Facebook, having the two linked isn’t the best idea. It makes it easy to find you, has the potential to be over-shared on the network, and is another way Facebook stays in your life.
Still, there are downsides. Tinder pulls in your last hundred likes and uses them to see if you have anything in common with a match, making signing in easy. Other than that, there is no good reason to tie the two together. Especially if you think that at any point you can leave Facebook behind.
Join Tinder without Facebook
You used to not have the option to sign up for Tinder without your Facebook account, but now you can. You can join with your phone number instead.
- Go to the Tinder website.
- Choose to join with your phone number instead of signing up for Facebook.
- Enter your phone number and details and wait for the confirmation text.
- Confirm the text and set your dating profile.
This much. You’ll have to sign in with your phone number every time you sign in, but otherwise it’s an easy way to use Tinder without connecting to Facebook.
If you want to use Tinder without getting caught, this is how you do it. You can create a fake Facebook profile, but do it this way to keep your two worlds apart.
Have you left Facebook behind? Are you using Tinder without Facebook? Having any problems using the app? Think you missed out by not connecting the two? Let us know your thoughts below!
Tinder is the best dog dating app available that will delight millions of users around the world. Having spawned an entire industry and cultural acceptance of the shift, it has a lot to offer as well as a lot to answer. TechJunkie covers quite a lot of Tinder topics and answers as many questions as we can. This question particularly intrigued me. ‘Will Tinder reactivate my Facebook account if I use it to sign up? I want to use it to login as it is faster but I left Facebook last year. What will happen?’
This is not our usual question, so I think it’s worth a detailed answer. I’ll answer the question first and then summarize a few reasons why you might not want to link Tinder to Facebook.
Will Tinder reactivate my Facebook account?
A kind of. To use your Facebook account with Tinder, it must be active. You cannot create a new Tinder account with an expired or closed Facebook account. If you try, it won’t work. If you want to create an account using FB, you must first reactivate your Facebook account and secondly set up Tinder for it to be live.
Tinder connects to your Facebook account but cannot make changes to the account itself. It can send, receive pictures, and read your account details, but cannot reactivate the account for you. You will have to do this yourself.
If you try to log into Tinder with a disabled Facebook account, it will ask you to log into Facebook. Signing in will reactivate your account and then allow you to use it to sign in to Tinder.
What happens if you delete Facebook while using Tinder?
How about if you’re approaching the problem from the opposite side and use both Facebook and Tinder but want to turn Facebook off? The answer is, if you use Facebook to log into Tinder, you will no longer be able to use the dating app. If you used your phone number instead, it wouldn’t make any difference.
You can always create a new Tinder account, and there are many reasons why it’s a good idea, but it’s more work and involves creating new images and losing any matches or contacts you have.
The lawsuit for not connecting Tinder to Facebook
The above is one reason not to create your Tinder account linked to Facebook. If you, like many after Cambridge Analytica, want to close your Facebook account, you are stuck. This isn’t specific to Tinder, but will apply to most apps where you choose the ‘Sign Up with Facebook’ option.
Some let you switch account so you can unplug Facebook from them but Tinder isn’t one of them as far as I can see.
The second reason not to link Tinder to Facebook is breakup. While Tinder doesn’t share every aspect of your love life on Facebook, having the two linked isn’t the best idea. It makes it easy to find you, has the potential to be highly shared on the network, and is another way Facebook stays in your life.
Still, there are downsides. Tinder pulls in your last hundred likes and uses them to see if you have anything in common with a match, making signing in easy. Other than that, there is no good reason to tie the two together. Especially if you think that at any point you can leave Facebook behind.
Join Tinder without Facebook
You used to not have the option to sign up for Tinder without your Facebook account, but now you can. You can join with your phone number instead.
- Go to the Tinder website.
- Choose to join with your phone number instead of signing up for Facebook.
- Enter your phone number and details and wait for the confirmation text.
- Confirm the text and set your dating profile.
This much. You’ll have to sign in with your phone number every time you sign in, but otherwise it’s an easy way to use Tinder without connecting to Facebook.
If you want to use Tinder without getting caught, this is how you do it. You can create a fake Facebook profile, but do it this way to keep your two worlds apart.
Have you left Facebook behind? Are you using Tinder without Facebook? Having any problems using the app? Think you missed out by not connecting the two? Let us know your thoughts below!