The World Cup's real winner is Tinder
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So you're in Brazil, watching the World Cup, and your team just lost. Or won. Or settled for a draw. Whatever.

You have feelings. You have a smartphone. And, more likely than not if you're an adult, you have Tinder.

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Foreigners and locals alike are reportedly trading messages as benign as "Where are you watching the game?" Tinder, after all, can be "for friendship," Francisco Garcia, a 23-year-old Chilean, told USA Today. "It can also be for my romantic life," he added.

So enjoy, World Cup revelers. But on the off chance that you find yourself looking at Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez: Swipe left.

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Sarah Eberspacher is an associate editor at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked as a sports reporter at The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus and The Arizona Republic. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.