When you move away from home, whether it is a few miles or a few hundred miles away, you’ve moved away from old friends and have started a new journey.

So what ever will you do without your childhood BFF by your side in your newest stage of life? Meet new people!

But how? The answer is simple nowadays: social media.

Forget traveling from floor to floor in your residence hall to socialize and meet new people! Forget hanging out in the lounge and introducing yourself to new people that walk around! Forget all of that old-school communication and put that nose of yours in a phone, computer or tablet of some sort!

Starting over also means it’s time to start a new, exciting love life. Most of us have come to college with intentions of finding that smokin’ hot guy or girl. If there was only some mobile application that allowed me to look at all of my options within a certain radius and hope that my chosen “baes” have chosen me too.

Wait a second! That magical app exists! It’s Tinder!

That’s right, ladies and gents, you can check out all of your options while only being wildly creepy and completely judgmental.

Now, I know it is supposed to be used to help the lonely find love, so being the investigative journalist I am, I decided to check out what Tinder is all about.

That’s right, I have a Tinder — but let’s be clear, it is for the sole purpose of finding out why it’s so big among my peers. My profile description also clearly states, “Please don’t think I take this seriously.” I mean come on, I’m not _that_ shallow.

Since finding personality, intelligence and shared interests attractive in a person is just too mainstream for today’s college student, Tinder provides the perfect platform to meet someone on the sole basis of looks. Judging people solely on looks is the new socially acceptable thing to do now. Get with it, people, shallow is the new trend.

Besides, if you get a match on Tinder, there’s so many different cute pick-up lines that people use to make you like them even more.

My friends have helped me get some matches by stealing my phone and liking as many guys as possible, hoping that I’d get some matches.

I’ve received a comical amount of matches in the past couple days, but the lines to get the conversation started have been even more hysterical.

My favorites so far have been: “You down to clown?” “I see you’re drinking 1 percent. Is that because you think you’re fat?” and the ever-so classy “Yo yo yo.”

Even though we live in an age of technology, it doesn’t give us the excuse to go all Kim Possible and expect people to call us or beep us if they want to reach us.

If you’re addicted to all of this online dating stuff, you might as well have tried out for the role in the movie “Her.” You know, that creepy movie where the guy falls in love with his phone. That could be you. Just let that one sink in.

FaceTime on your phone is great for talking to family and friends that are far away, but please, put down that phone, close that computer, and pick your head up and say “hello” to someone. Go out into your lounge and meet the people you’re living with.

And please, for everyone’s good, get off of Tinder and if you see someone you like, go introduce yourself in person. Stop hiding behind a screen — you can’t stay there forever.