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Clark Harding's essay in the Daily Beast
today calls attention to a most wondrous and entirely inevitable
development in the world of virtual dating: a GPS based hook-up
service. Grindr, as the smartphone app is called, is for gay men only
(as of now, at least). Gone are the often-messy complications of
Craigslist posts or dating sites: You download the app, create a
profile, and upon login up pop the profiles of men seeking men, their
distance away listed in feet. My friend has the app, and just by
logging in at work once or twice he's discovered there are at least two
other gay men in his office. Just from using the app with him, I've
seen more abdominal "situations" in a 15-minute span then I have over
the last five years ... (Read the rest of this post on DoubleX.)
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There's a CNN article today about increasingly popular iPhone apps that track sex offenders and other convicts. The story starts off with Tracy Rodriguez, a mother in Houston, who uses her iPhone to get "information revealing the sex offenders who live within a 10-mile radius of where her children practice sports or watch movies." Apparently this mom feels that the app makes her make more informed choices, and she checks it several times daily. I thought this was just a punch line in the movie Knocked Up, not an actual trend ... (Read more in DoubleX.)