geosocial networking
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This Guy Made a Dating App Where You Can Only Date Him
“I’d never really done the online dating thing,” Los Mayers said. Mayers, an app developer living in Brooklyn, had met all of his previous partners in person the old-fashioned way. But last summer, his ex broke up with him, and newly single, he decided to give online romance a shake. Mayers spent a month on…
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Uni Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps Down
Young people are breaking up with dating apps, according to a new poll from Axios, showing that 79% of college students don’t use any dating apps. A decline in interest from dating apps’ core demographic is wreaking havoc across the industry, as Bumble’s CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe Herd steps down a day before the…
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‘I Was Shadowbanned:’ How Hinge’s Algorithm Decides Who You Date
Some dating app users say manipulative algorithms suppress the good matches. When tech companies run romance, the truth is hard to grasp.
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Tinder Will Help You Find Wedding Dates Because Apparently Taking Strangers to Weddings Is a Thing
Let me preface this by saying that I don’t dislike Tinder. I’ve used it before to chat with singles in my area and even went on a nice date with someone from the app. You know, normal dating app things. Yet, people are apparently going on Tinder with a very different goal in mind: finding…