--- title: Rhode Island Parents Use Tinder, Snapchat, OkCupid Health Insurance description: Website teaches parents how to canonical: https://time.com/29390/this-website-teaches-parents-how-to-use-tinder-so-they-can-nag-their-kids-about-getting-insured/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-19T13:00:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:55.416Z og:title: This Website Teaches Parents How to Use Tinder to Nag Their Kids About Getting Insured og:description: And Snapchat. 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Rhode Island is teaching parents how to use the app–and all of the social networks you’re on–so that they can continue to pester you about getting health insurance before the March 31 enrollment deadline. While the White House is banking on [cat GIFs](http://time.com/27571/there-are-cat-gifs-on-whitehouse-gov-right-now/) and [deadpan humor](http://time.com/19645/obama-zach-galifianakis-between-two-ferns/) to get through to young Americans in the last week, HealthSourceRI, Rhode Island’s health insurance exchange, has taken it a step closer to home by starting [Nag Toolkit](http://nagtoolkit.com/), a website that provides parent-friendly tutorials on how to use Snapchat, OKCupid, Tinder, Twitter, and Vine to reach their children. For Tinder, the site recommends using a “Facebook profile photo with a sign saying ‘Get Health Insurance.'” For OKCupid, it says “create a provocative username.” And if parents cannot figure out this darn stuff for the life of them, then they can submit their child’s email address, and HealthSourceRI will do the nagging. 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