Tinder, put your dukes up! Love, Osmosis.

     In reality, dating apps are online systems that allow individuals to locate and introduce themselves to possible connections over the web. A similarity in all dating apps is the main goal which is to bring to fruition personal, romantic and sexual relationships. The ideology behind dating apps is that they will find you a partner in some capacity. Other ideologies about dating apps are that they are super easy to find someone to connect with and that most people who use a dating app are on it because they are looking for a hookup.

Let's compare Tinder and Osmosis. Tinder is an online dating application that gives its users the ability to secretly swipe left or right on another individuals pictures. When you swipe left on another person, that means you are not interested. When you swipe right on another person, that means you are interested but again, it's anonymous so that person who's picture you swiped right on will not know you are interested in them unless they also swipe right on one of your pictures. When two people swipe right on each others pictures it creates a match and allows those two individuals to start messaging one another. Osmosis on the other hand, is very much different from Tinder. With Osmosis, individuals are letting an algorithm that has been implanted into their brains decide on who they will love. Osmosis knows all of your best kept secrets and digs deep into the innermost part of your brain. Additionally, it's not a guessing game, you know who is fitting for you and who is not, unlike Tinder. With Tinder, you don't really know who you swiping right or left on, there is a ton of false advertisement and I know this from personal experience years ago.

Osmosis is a much less risky dating app in terms of who you are actually matching with. The algorithm does just about all of the work for you. In Osmosis you can literally walk past someone and a digital image appears above each persons head to signify how good of a match they would be for you, without ever seeing or meeting them before. Osmosis knows who is compatible with you and who is not. Osmosis also has a physical aspect to it where Tinder does not. You have to swallow a pill to partake in Osmosis whereas with Tinder, you simply download an app. Similarly between the two, you are hoping for the best! Tinder uses artificial intelligence in that in order to perform advanced tasks, computing of technology must take place. Osmosis leans more towards machine learning in that an algorithm is used to gather information and identify certain patters in order to tackle a task. Once the physical pill is swallowed in Osmosis, the algorithm is activated and it keeps getting more intelligent and improving.

Find my lover, Osmosis

    Osmosis, where true love is undoubtedly a thing and an application is able to find for you, true love and a perfect match! Sometimes however, love hurts. The setting of this Science-Fiction Drama takes place in the not-so-near future of Paris. With the swallow of a pill, Osmosis can dig deep into the users brain and formulate algorithms that allow for a perfect match with one hundred percent accuracy. The launch of Osmosis is intended to have positive global impact however, some things don't quite go as planned. The show examines a group of people who volunteer for the test of Osmosis and the affect it has on their personal lives and love lives.

    The show Osmosis begins with a women, Esther Vanhove walking around a room looking for her perfect manly match to absorb true love with. This scene demonstrates negotiated representation. As Esther (decoder) walks throughout the room, she passes by many different men (encoders) with a digital status above their heads that signifies how strong of a love match they would be for her. The reason this exemplifies negotiated representation is because she walks past several men who have the labeled status of a perfect match. Esther acknowledges the valid representations of all these men being perfect matches for her however, she chose not to fully accept a man right away. I believe that Esther saw that there may be a chance to find a more fitting opportunity with a perfectly matched man based on each man being labeled as a perfect match, so, she continued onward. From a competing discourse sense, it was indeed a competition. The men were in competition with one another in hopes that Esther would choose one of them and Esther was in competition with them. She wasn't going to let the fact that she could have any of those men convince her to choose right away, she embraced the challenge of the odds that seemed in her favor to find a more suitable match. None of the men in the first group satisfied her fancy enough to reel her in, quicker than a wink

    Esther wanted to feel a certain way, feeling all the feels and raw emotions that come with being human. Sure enough, Esther found a better match and created a more fitting situation for herself with the same valid negotiated representation. The reason there is no dominant view is because the men and Esther are both looking for the same thing, true love. This competing discourse lead to a negotiated representation in that the representations encoded by those with power were acknowledged as valid by decoders, but not entirely accepted. The decoder adapted the message for her local situation. This is also considered to be a discursive situation.