At a party this past weekend, when things were winding down, I noticed one of my close gay friends had retreated to his cell phone — an annoying yet inevitable habit among my single twentysomething friends. I just assumed he was drunk and wanted to browse Grindr, the gay "dating" app that gets you geolocationally laid with a few pics and platitudes, but he told me he was instead on Tinder — an app I'd never heard of two weeks ago (even though Jenna Wortham blogged about it recently in the Times, noting it launched in October). In the last month, it seems to have become the pretty young thing of urban-minded dating apps. Everyone I know is suddenly talking about it.
Judging from what happened next at the party, I can see why: My friend put his phone on the table and a small cluster of people gathered around, guys and girls, married and single. Tinder is basically Hot or Not — the insidious early-aughts game that allowed you to vote on someone's attractiveness — but with sweeter intentions. You upload three or four photos from your Facebook page, and then others (men, women, it's open-season here so long as you choose your own preferences) who have done the same are displayed on your screen one by one. You swipe through them, approving or denying. You can only chat and exchange contact details if you both are into it, otherwise it stays anonymous. In either case, it's basically a party game, with a pleasing design, curly typefaces, and non-threatening levels of competition or commitment.
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