When is a "Dating App" not quite so innocent ?

[Handley_Page]

"Dating app developer 'Tinder' went ballistic this week over the suggestion people might use it for facilitating casual sex."



Seems reasonable, I thought. Then I read the rest of the piece.
See here.

 

[Hypoxia]

"Dating app developer 'Tinder' went ballistic this week over the suggestion people might use it for facilitating casual sex."



Seems reasonable, I thought. Then I read the rest of the piece.
See here.

'Dating' is rather obvious code for 'fucking' so Tinder is being rather ingenuous. Methinks thou doth protest overmuch, Tinder. That's okay; keep up the innocent act. Hey, it's only sex. People do it all the time. Dogs, too. It's not a dog-dating service, right? Whew, no bestiality.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

Um... All reports I get from 20-somethings assure me that sex is now an expected part of any relationship. And people have been arranging hookups via every online application that supports text, since the dawn of email. And I do mean every app, including one memorable proposition I got in a text on DrawSomething.

So in the era of high school kids texting "chill and Netflix" on their Handheld SexArrangers - that is, phones- it seems odd that ANY app writer, let alone a dating site, would be baffled by people arranging sex. People arranging sex is the only reason they have a business and they know it.

This is 1) pure publicity ploy and 2) an example of the fine journalism standards of the Register.