Looking for Someone: Sex, Love and Loneliness on the Internet

The cutting edge is in mobile and location-based technology, such as Grindr, a smartphone app for gay men that tells subscribers when there are other willing subscribers in their vicinity. Many Internet dating companies, including Grindr, are trying to devise ways to make this kind of thing work for straight people, which means making it work for straight women, who may not need an app to know that they are surrounded by willing straight men.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jul 4, 2011
Length: 41 minutes (10,251 words)
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