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Tinder Bans Most Teens (gizmodo.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-to-hookup-101 dept.

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.

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  1. Who thought it was ever a good idea by Todd+Knarr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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).

  2. Re: Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Okay mister I'm pretty sure posts like that get you on some kind of list. Or at least I hope they do.

  3. Re:Great by jandrese · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Clearly you have not seen a lot of nude 13 year old chicks...

    And neither should you.

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    I read the internet for the articles.
  4. Re:Great by axewolf · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's nothing wrong with nudity you brainwashed little nerd. Unlike you, not everyone is conditioned to blow their load at the sight of a nude woman, so not everyone is afraid of developing some kind of preternatural affection toward immature girls by happening to see one without clothes on.
    God I hate that people like you have kids. Neurosis may be common (and thereby justifiable to weak-minded fools like you) but it is not good.

  5. Re:Great by St.Creed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why? Shouldn't I take them to the sauna? I'm sure Finland will disagree. Shouldn't we go to the "natural" camping where nudity is normal and standard? Germany and large parts of the Dutch population would disagree. Why should I saddle my daughters with nudity taboos they have little use for, other than to be aware of where they are and how to respond to the neurotic ideas of the people around them?

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    Therefore, by the (faulty) logic you're using, you're just a cow with a keyboard - osu-neko (2604)
  6. I wouldn't know... by Zanadou · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wouldn't know. Its changelog just states

    "Improvements & fixes"

    ...like every other fucking "app" and program update since 2011.