Trending: Mobile apps drastically transform dating

[GURPS]

Trending: Mobile apps drastically transform dating


Tinder, a mobile dating app that has been well known for providing a platform to encourage hookups, took to Twitter to express anger at the piece, written by contributing editor Nancy Jo Sales.

In the piece, Sales suggests that apps like these have caused a “dating apocalypse” where its users favor hookups and one-night stands over romance, and that the culture encourages misogyny and discourages commitment.

Tinder took to Twitter to respond in anger, tweeting more than 30 angry tweets to Sales, insisting that “Tinder creates connections that otherwise would have never been made.”


Vanity Fair Article .......

Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”
As romance gets swiped from the screen, some twentysomethings aren’t liking what they see.


People used to meet their partners through proximity, through family and friends, but now Internet meeting is surpassing every other form. “It’s changing so much about the way we act both romantically and sexually,” Garcia says. “It is unprecedented from an evolutionary standpoint.” As soon as people could go online they were using it as a way to find partners to date and have sex with. In the 90s it was Craigslist and AOL chat rooms, then Match.com and Kiss.com. But the lengthy, heartfelt e-mails exchanged by the main characters in You’ve Got Mail (1998) seem positively Victorian in comparison to the messages sent on the average dating app today. “I’ll get a text that says, ‘Wanna ####?’ ” says Jennifer, 22, a senior at Indiana University Southeast, in New Albany. “They’ll tell you, ‘Come over and sit on my face,’ ” says her friend, Ashley, 19.

Mobile dating went mainstream about five years ago; by 2012 it was overtaking online dating. In February, one study reported there were nearly 100 million people—perhaps 50 million on Tinder alone—using their phones as a sort of all-day, every-day, handheld singles club, where they might find a sex partner as easily as they’d find a cheap flight to Florida. “It’s like ordering Seamless,” says Dan, the investment banker, referring to the online food-delivery service. “But you’re ordering a person.”

The comparison to online shopping seems an apt one. Dating apps are the free-market economy come to sex. The innovation of Tinder was the swipe—the flick of a finger on a picture, no more elaborate profiles necessary and no more fear of rejection; users only know whether they’ve been approved, never when they’ve been discarded. OkCupid soon adopted the function. Hinge, which allows for more information about a match’s circle of friends through Facebook, and Happn, which enables G.P.S. tracking to show whether matches have recently “crossed paths,” use it too. It’s telling that swiping has been jocularly incorporated into advertisements for various products, a nod to the notion that, online, the act of choosing consumer brands and sex partners has become interchangeable.

Misogyny :shrug:

really .....

.... isn't this the pinnacle of what free love hippies [progressives] wanted in the 1960's - sex without relationships - no commitment - no strings


[oh yeah this was 2015 btw]

 

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Nobody forces young women (or men) to use Tinder. There are a million dating sites out there, not to mention you could actually, you know, kick it old school and go socialize to meet people. Tinder is specifically about sex on demand and doesn't promote itself as a relationship oriented service. So if you don't like that sort of "dating" site, don't use it.

Simple enough.

 

[GURPS]

Nobody forces young women (or men) to use Tinder. There are a million dating sites out there, not to mention you could actually, you know, kick it old school and go socialize to meet people. Tinder is specifically about sex on demand and doesn't promote itself as a relationship oriented service. So if you don't like that sort of "dating" site, don't use it.

Simple enough.

yep .... what I did not get was the Vanity Fairs author calling the whole thing Misogynistic

.... isn't this the pinnacle of what free love hippies [progressives] wanted in the 1960's - sex without relationships - no commitment - no strings

doesn't this put women in control ?
not that they did not always have control over whom they had sex with ....

 

[vraiblonde]

yep .... what I did not get was the Vanity Fairs author calling the whole thing Misogynistic

Misogynistic is the new racist: a word the progbots have discovered and latched onto, labeled everything as such, and now it's meaningless.

Is there a word for disdain, contempt, and prejudice against men? Misohomistic maybe? Anyway, women clearly show contempt for themselves if they use Tinder to find a random stranger to have sex with. It's hardly Tinder's fault they're a bunch of sluts.