Morris: Dating App Culture Is Keeping People Lonely
I have friends who tell me I have the best dating luck in the world. It’s not “luck,” I tell them, “use the apps, just reject the app culture.”
I have friends who tell me I have the best dating luck in the world. It’s not “luck,” I tell them, “use the apps, just reject the app culture.”
An Illinois Christian school teacher is accused of using the gay hookup app Grindr to set up unsuspecting victims to violently rob them, with investigators linking him to two cases so far.
A dating app is reportedly being used to lure Chicago men and rob them on the city’s Northwest side, with two incidents occurring recently.
A Chicago-area man is accused of tying up a woman in his mother’s basement and beating her after meeting the woman on a dating app.
John McEntee, founder and CEO of the new “normal” dating app, The Right Stuff, blasted competitors in an ad this week, explaining that dating has become far too confusing with countless gender options and the dangers of being accused of “misgendering while trying to flirt.”
John McEntee, founder and CEO of The Right Stuff, said politics has displaced religion as the primary “deal breaker” in dating.
A couple has been accused of stealing from a church in Hendersonville, Tennessee, while reportedly on their first date.
The Iranian regime, facing one of the steepest drops in fertility in the world, rolled out a government-approved matchmaking app for smartphones this week.
The British government has reached agreements with leading dating apps to encourage younger people to take coronavirus vaccines, through offering incentives and the ability for users to tout their vaccination status to their prospective romantic flings. Starting on Monday, Tinder, Match,
Dating app Bumble has temporarily disabled a feature allowing users to filter potential matches based on their political leanings. The company cryptically announced it had disabled the feature to “prevent misuse” after social media posts indicated some users were changing their political leanings to try to locate other users who attended the Capitol Hill protest.
Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Snapchat’s Good Luck America that meeting up with someone after connecting online is a risk.
Christopher Castillo used a dating app to choose an unwitting woman as his getaway driver on their first date.
A Chicago man is accused of using a dating app to lure his victims near some of the city’s nicest hotels before attacking them with a stun gun and robbing them.
A sex robot received 92 matches on Tinder in just two hours, with 56 percent of matches open to having sex with it, as part of an experiment to determine public acceptance of the robots.
An underage Florida teen lured men with a dating app, robbed them, and then threatened them if they ratted her out to the cops, police said.
Popular dating app Bumble has banned users from posting pictures that feature guns, in protest of mass shootings and gun violence.
A California court has ruled that Tinder Plus’ higher price model for users over 30 is discriminatory, following a wave of complaints.
Chinese gaming company Kunlun’s acquisition of popular gay dating app Grindr has prompted privacy concerns.
An upcoming dating app uses your DNA to help you find your “true love,” according to a report. Pheramor, created by 26-year-old geneticist Brittany Barreto, plans to launch in February and reportedly “combines genetic information with data gleaned from social
Ashley Madison, the hookup service for cheating partners, has threatened to sue competitor CasualX over alleged similarities in their marketing.
An update for popular gay dating app Grindr adds new features that aim to be “more inclusive” for non-binary and transgender users.
A former employee of gay dating app Grindr is suing the company over an incident where a Human Resources Supervisor allegedly drugged and raped him at a Christmas party.
An HIV positive man has been accused of attempting to infect Grindr dates with sabotaged condoms, according to a report.
After a journalist asked Tinder to send her all the personal data that the company had stored on her, she received 800 pages of information, according to a report.
Popular dating platform Tinder has become the highest grossing app on Apple’s App Store, following the launch of a new paid feature, according to a report.
“Scruff,” a dating app for gay, bisexual, and transgender men, has warned gay conservative commentator Chadwick Moore for allegedly having a pro-Trump account biography.
Four men are accused of using the gay dating app “Grindr” to meet up with users before allegedly assaulting and robbing them.
Popular dating app Tinder are investigating the theft of 40,000 user profile pictures after a programmer made the images public as part of a “facial dataset.”
In a new report, the Verge profiled the elite, invite-only social networks which the rich and successful use as their modern-day country clubs.
Hater, a 2016-launched rival dating app to Tinder, wants to help you find a partner based on mutual dislikes.
37 percent of men don’t think using dating apps while in a relationship is cheating, according to a new survey of over 3,500 college students by ABODO.
A new viral trend is leading many female Tinder users to scam desperate men out of $5 to “see what happens.”
Less than five percent of users on the popular dating app Tinder are looking for a relationship, while nearly 45% use the app solely as a confidence booster, according to a new report.
Tinder has a secret and exclusive version of their app purely for “people who do really well” on the platform, according to a report by Tech Crunch.
The family of a 46-year-old former Florida Sheriff killed while providing police training in the Middle East has sued Twitter, claiming the company “knowingly permitted” ISIS accounts to spread extremist propaganda.
According to police, a woman who reported she was raped at gunpoint said she met her rapist on the dating website eHarmony.
A gay man who used Grindr to find a date had sex with his new friend–then found himself robbed.
(Ferenstein Wire) — Jdate, the popular dating service responsible for more Jewish hookups than a bottle of Manischewitz, is playing hardball in the dog-eat-dog world of nice Jewish matchmaking.
The Iranian government, alarmed at the declining rate of marriage in the Islamic Republic, has announced it will officially launch a free online “matchmaking service” that officials insist is not a dating site. Unlike a dating site, users have no choice in who they are paired with upon subscribing to the service.
Bruce — now known as Caitlyn — Jenner may well find himself struggling to hook up via Tinder — officially a “dating” app but also known for instigating one-night stands. The site is allegedly banning transgenders from its use.