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Tinder Turns 10: What Have We Learned From a Decade of Dating Apps?

Posted on August 12, 2022

Tinder for social media2THE GUARDIAN – A decade ago, online dating existed through sites such as match and OKCupid tended to attract older users, and had a stigma. Apps like Grindr (launched 2009), and Tinder (2012) radically changed online dating. Emily Witt, the author of Future Sex, a book that examines sex in the internet age, tells Nosheen Iqbal about the origin story of Tinder, meeting the founders, and why it was such an instant success. Dating apps have grown in response to a culture where people are single longer and a changing sexual morality that's open to different kinds of relationships.

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by Nosheen Iqbal
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