Like a person scorned after a bad date, the tech company Tinder went a little bit crazy on social media on Tuesday after Vanity Fair published an article blaming technology for the death of dating.Imagine that.
The article, “Tinder and the Dawn of the ‘Dating Apocalypse,’ ” was not just about Tinder — there is a wider Internet at work, the writer Nancy Jo Sales suggested. But the app, which lets users quickly swipe left to signal rejection or right to signal interest, was used to illustrate the problems young daters face when technology fuses short attention spans with too many options.
On its official Twitter account, Tinder took issue with the report’s suggestion that its dating app was fueling a culture of casual sex.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Tinder Doesn’t Contribute to Hookup Culture (Says Tinder)
The New York Times reports:
