![]() “You’ve only got these little details to go on so the downside is… turning yourself into a box. “It’s a physical facilitator, it’s about how someone looks,” says Pat Cash, a journalist for QX magazine and sporadic Grindr user. ![]() ‘Grindr is more about yourself than anything’ Here are some stories from people who use the apps about how they have changed dating – and attitudes. Its strapline? “Tinder is how people meet. There’s a spin-off for lesbian women too, called Brenda, and in the last few months Tinder – for straight people – has taken off. Users have profiles in the same way as on other sites, and the site’s USP is matching people up with others who are nearby, according to the geo-location data on their phones. Across the globe, seven million men use it in 192 countries, and 10,000 new users download the app every day. Set up five years ago, it now has more users in London than any other city in the world (950,000). The next logical step in the modern world of smartphones was dating apps, and none have been more successful than Grindr, which caters exclusively for gay men. “Traditional” online dating sites were the success stories of the nineties and early noughties, and now, according to, one in four relationships start online. ![]() It began with Grindr (well, arguably it began when Eve ate the apple, but that’s another story).
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