{"id":1730,"date":"2016-07-07T23:50:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T23:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2016-07-07T23:50:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T23:50:19","slug":"uber-rating-love-dating-hookup-sex-millennials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=1730","title":{"rendered":"Love in the Time of Uber Ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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fter ensuring that #NoNewFriends transforms into a legit catch phrase and having made <\/span>flat stomachs<\/span><\/a> great again, us millennials have set our sights on mainstreaming our next conquest: <\/span>Uber<\/span><\/a> ratings.<\/span>\n\nThe idea is take a totally harmless app feature like Uber ratings, where drivers and passengers rate each other after the end of a seemingly random trip, and exploit it as a pickup move, proof of someone\u2019s character, and also a way to seek validation. If there\u2019s one thing we\u2019ve learnt as millennials, it\u2019s that literally anything in this world can be turned into a competition. Cue \u201cMy rating is higher than yours\u201d comebacks.<\/span>\n\nTinder<\/span><\/a> for instance, is now littered with numerous bios of bros displaying their Uber rating with a level of pride similar to what Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay must have felt when they conquered Mount Everest back in 1953. It\u2019s both a declaration of their coolness, and a hint directed at their potential matches. For the dudes modest enough to not put their ratings upfront on their bios, their first question after being notified of a match is usually: \u201cWhat\u2019s your Uber rating?\u201d It\u2019s essentially the millennial update to <\/span>Govinda\u2019s<\/span><\/a> \u201cWhat is mobile number?\u201d It\u2019s not as if dating was hard in the first place anyway.<\/span>\n\n

What\u2019s your Uber rating?\u201d is essentially the millennial update to Govinda\u2019s \u201cWhat is mobile number?\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nAnyway, the rules are simple. If you\u2019re anything below 4.7, it\u2019s now a universal truth that you\u2019re an uncool and uncouth person. After all, if you have managed to piss off a driver whose only aim is to ensure you reach home or work safely and in time, then shit\u2019s gotten too real. Maybe you had puked in your ride one drunken night, or ghosted an Uber driver after booking it, or straight-up cancelled your ride right after your driver reached your location like a heartless monster. It may have seemed like an inconsequential action at the time, but we (including your potential matches) will inadvertently take it as a sign of you being a garbage human being. Who\u2019s to know you won\u2019t do the same with our hearts?<\/span>\n\nThe 4.8s\u2019 are then the cool kids. They\u2019re the ones whose table you want to sit at, and whose hand you want to hold. These are the bros getting all the action, and ones who are afforded the luxury of left swipes. The whole world wants them anyway. Just yesterday, a friend confided in me about being unmatched by a girl on Tinder after she was made aware that his Uber rating is just 4.68. He was heartbroken at her sudden cold behaviour because they were just hitting it off, and he, for the life of him, couldn\u2019t fathom how a girl could outright reject him without having even seen any of his flaws. But that\u2019s the thing — she didn\u2019t need to, because as the popular saying goes, \u201cYou can tell a lot about a person by their Uber rating.\u201d<\/span>\n\nBut when all is said and done, you have to give it up for us millennials. Our rebellious quotient is so high that we are ready to ignore our instincts and let one feature of a transportation app decide who we go on a date with. Maybe next year, we\u2019ll depend on our neighbourhood bhajiwalas to tell us which dude buys the necessary amount of greens, and don\u2019t bargain like a basic Sarojini dweller. If falling in love wasn\u2019t hard enough, now we have ratings to fight against. Because in this new dating world, which is starting to eerily feel more like <\/span>Black Mirror<\/span><\/i>, feelings are as useless as Uday Chopra in any film.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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