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Tinder Bans Most Teens (gizmodo.com)
Tinder says it will stop allowing users aged 13 to 17 to use its app starting next week. The dating app has allowed users in the aforementioned age range to match within their age group since 2012. Gizmodo reports: The change makes sense given Tinder's status as a hookup app, its features that make it easier to find orgies, and various age-of-consent laws that could potentially land the company in hot water if anything involving a minor goes wrong. It likely won't be too hard to get around the restriction, and might just involve changing your birthday on Facebook.
Now all the 13 year olds will be on there claiming to be 19.
Why was Tinder allowing 13 year olds to access their Creepy People Database anyway? I mean, Iâ(TM)ve seen some pretty hot teens that make my wiener twitch a bit, but, uh, no. Just no.
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From the verbiage in the /. article, ages zero (0) to twelve (12) are, of course, more than welcome on the site.
Too little too late for them honestly. But suckerberg will just make it go away with money.
So teens who lie will now get hooked up with adults?
Where are all da white women?
I want to know who at Tinder thought it was a good idea to allow that age range any access at all in the first place. I know why they thought it was, but I can't imagine the idea ever ending well no matter what restrictions were placed on it (at least as far as the law's concerned anyway, I'm sure the kids thought it was a dandy idea but they don't get a say in that).
It was selected for mass popularity.
It's part of the trend of the "tenderizing" industry: businesses that create products that compromise people emotionally and cause them to be distracted.
It's good for the economy under the current system as a whole. But it's awful for the people.
This is literally the same as the case of tobacco companies marketing to children.
But the problem was never the tobacco companies themselves, just like the problem isn't Tinder now.
It's that the leaders of our society are the kind of people who promote and see value in these things.
The immediate harm ends up besides the point: this society is poison for 99% of everyone.
There was a girl in my class at school that had, STILL HAS, tits bigger than my mother when she was the age of 14. Several of them actually.
I'm going to go out on a limb and bet that this girl had exactly two tits, and that you have a really, really small mother.
Support a few technologists in Washington.
A lot of teenagers celebrated their seventeenth and eighteenth birthday this week.
Keep kids under 40 off the internet in total.
What if the kids were only using it to hook up with people in order to do homework together?
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
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Somebody modded this -1? Wowwwwwwwwwwwwww you are some faaaaaaaaaaaaaaags
Lemme know. Bout time I put this barrel of lube to good use.
This week at the same time as the ban Tinder population of "18" year golds grew by approximate the same number of banned 13-17 year olds. This solved nothing.
Doesn't that very demographic account for 90% of their users? This is like Slashdot banning socially-awkward nerds.
I wouldn't know. Its changelog just states
"Improvements & fixes"
...like every other fucking "app" and program update since 2011.
pls dont hide
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