ABSTRAKSeiring perkembangan teknologi, online dating menjadi semakin marak dilakukan dan caranya semakin beragam. Tinder, merupakan sebuah aplikasi online dating yang sedang di puncak popularitas. Penggunanya tersebar di berbagai negara, termasuk Indonesia. Penelitian dengan metode kualitatif ini mengambil lima informan dan meneliti tentang bagaimana perempuan muda Indonesia (mahasiswi) sebagai pengguna Tinder, melakukan dan menanggapi self-disclosure dalam dinamika hubungan yang ia jalani dengan pria yang dikenal melalui Tinder. Melalui wawancara semi terstruktur, didapatkan hasil yang cenderung mirip antar informan. Hasil akhir penelitian menunjukkan bahwa perempuan muda enggan melakukan self-disclosure lebih dahulu, tapi memegang kontrol akan berlanjut tidaknya hubungan. Selain itu, self-disclosure yang dilakukan mahasiswi atau ditanggapi mahasiswi cenderung luas, namun tidak mendalam.

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ABSTRACTIn these modern days, people are getting easier to find their date. Internet just let them know faster and meet each other at the soonest. One of the bloomest ways nowadays is through online dating via smartphone application. Tinder, is one of the most popular online dating applications in recent years especially in Indonesia. This phenomenon encourages the writer to do some qualitative survey with five informants and observe how Indonesian young women, as Tinder users, demonstrate and respond self-disclosure in a relationship to the man whom they know from Tinder. Through semi-structured interviews, it has been found that there are likely some similarities among informants. The final results show that young women do not want to denote self disclosure at the first time, but take the control and let them decide whether it is worth to continue the relationship or not. Furthermore, the way of young women (students) act or show self disclosure tends to be broad but not deep.