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Service.com slash podcasts. World Service. I'm Simon Mabin and this is Modern Love. In the past few years mobile phone apps dedicated to finding love,

relationships or just sex have exploded onto the dating scene.

It takes minutes to sign up to apps like Tinder and Purdue, and just seconds to swipe

through the profiles of men or women you might be interested in.

Your life just kind of revolves around it. You wake up and you swipe, you go to sleep and you

swipe and if you're like me during conference calls at work you swipe.

As the availability of smartphones spreads rapidly around the world,

so too does the reach of dating apps.

In Modern Love, I'll be looking at their impact in the US, in India.

Apps like As Might Act as a catalyst who actually over time break down this entire caste system in India.

And in Kenya, where things will get...

Very, very sexual.

but first I'm on my way to someone else's date in New York.

Hello?

How are you doing?

I'm good.

How are you guys?

Okay, a little bit chilly.

Yeah.

So how are you feeling?

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