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Before the Internet, people met via family, friends, school, work and serendipitous public encounters. That still happens, but online dating is two decades old now, and is fast becoming the norm. New tools are also changing its nature. On old-school dating sites, you provide a lot of information and pore over the profiles of potential suitors with the hope of finding an ideal match. Most also require fees. Tinder, a free phone app that launched in 2012, greatly simplifies the process. Using your phone's GPS and algorithms that take just a little Facebook and user selected data into account, Tinder finds and displays pictures of a nearby potential partners on your screen with a tiny bit of biographical information. Based on little else, you swipe left on the screen if you aren't interested and right if you are. You can accept or reject dozens — or even hundreds — of pictures a day, almost as a game, and never do anything else. However, if two people both swipe right" on each other, they are a match, and have the option to chat via text (and animated emojis) and decide where to go from there. The terms "swipe right" and "swipe left" have even crept into the vocabulary of popular culture to mean general approval or disapproval. Tinder and similar apps are increasingly popular with young adults and are gaining traction with other demographics, as well. And they may do more than merely make it easier to find dates. Here are 10 ways a seemingly simple app is changing our world. Inspiring Niche Competitors Gamifying Dating Easing LGBT Dating Concerns Increasing Social and Political Awareness Moving Us Further from the Desktop Evening the Playing Field Impacting Bar and Restaurant Revenue Facilitating Hookups Enabling Cheating Changing the Nature of Dating. 10: Inspiring Niche Competitors. Left to right, co-founder and CEO of Bumble Whitney Wolfe, co-founder and COO of Coffee Meets Bagel Dawoon Kang and Founder of Her Robyn Exton speak onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016. The dating app Grindr for gay and bisexual men actually launched three years earlier than Tinder, but Tinder brought the concept of mobile geo-location-based dating to a wider audience. Tinder reportedly has 9.6 million active daily users swiping 1.4 billion times a day [source: Carr]. And people can and do use more than one online dating method. Many of the newer Tinder-like apps narrow down the number of choices offered to users. Both of the apps Hinge and Coffee Meets Bagel select a limited number of potential matches per day from friends of your Facebook friends to weed out totally unconnected strangers. Happn presents you with users who have come within 800 feet (244 meters) of you in real life. JSwipe aims to help Jewish singles find love. Aside from Grindr, there are other LGBT specific apps, including Scruff, Jack'd, Her and Wing Ma'am. Loveflutter aims to put personality before looks by displaying a personal fact before revealing a user's picture. Bumble — founded by former Tinder executive Whitney Wolfe — makes women initiate first contact with male matches, to remove the stigma of women making the first move and hopefully decrease harassment. And then there are the racy apps, like 3nder for finding potential threesome participants and Mixxxer for meeting casual sex partners within a one-mile radius. As far as dating apps go, Tinder tops the market in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and a few other places, but other apps dominate elsewhere around the globe, such as Badoo in many South American countries, Momo in China and YYC in Japan, to name a few [source: Maybin]. 9: Gamifying Dating. Because of its game-like nature, Tinder can be an addictive time suck. Traditional online dating sites like Match and EHarmony require you to set up complex profiles, and you have to make some effort to search for and contact potential matches. It can seem laborious compared to the quick and easy nature of Tinder, which in many ways is akin to playing a game. After setup, which includes a few simple settings, you launch the app and a photo appears. Then you start the process of swiping left to pass or right to accept, and you can quickly swipe through a lot of pictures. If someone you accept also swipes right on you, you have a match and get the prize of being able to chat as we mentioned earlier, but you can also just add them to your collection — like a trading card. And it can be addictive. Games, somewhat like drugs, stimulate the reward centers of our brains, leading to the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine and an accompanying feeling of pleasure. The prospects and realities of finding love or sex are also tied into our reward system. The game-like aspects of Tinder just add new ways to get a dopamine high from dating. You never know when you're going to get a match, and not knowing when a reward will happen reportedly increases dopamine production.
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