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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. Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now all the 13 year olds will be on there claiming to be 19.

    1. Re:Great by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 2

      "I swear, officer, she said she was 19" will get a lot more credible now even for people who're caught with a girl that has no tits...

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

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    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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    4. Re:Great by ImprovOmega · · Score: 2

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

      I believe Chris Hanson would like a word with you...

    5. 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.

    6. 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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    7. Re:Great by Opportunist · · Score: 2

      You don't know a lot of doctors...

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  2. Others Welcome by JustBoo · · Score: 2

    From the verbiage in the /. article, ages zero (0) to twelve (12) are, of course, more than welcome on the site.

    1. Re:Others Welcome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      From the verbiage in your comment, you think Tinder is a site.

      Tinder Hook Up Site
      Quick way to meet single women and go on casual dates. Join for free.
      tinder.quickflirt.com

      Tinder Dating Site
      Seek romance? Take your chance, meet your match tonight!
      m.tinder.flirt.com

      That's from Tinders own advertising.

      Huh, believe that or some weak-ass wannabe's non-opinion on the InterWannabeTubes who doesn't even know what site means. Sure...

      Captha: adultery

  3. 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).

    1. Re:Who thought it was ever a good idea by St.Creed · · Score: 2

      Who are these people with multiple penises?

      They're called Elon Musk, Richard Branson and John Carmack and they're having contest to see who can launch the most penises the highest.

      What do they do with the second penis? Is it beside or above below?

      It starts at the same level, then quickly rises, but after a while it droops again and usually ends below.

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  4. I'll bet two, in fact by stomv · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  5. In related news. by SuricouRaven · · Score: 4, Funny

    A lot of teenagers celebrated their seventeenth and eighteenth birthday this week.

  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.