Tinder at 10: What’s Your Relationship with the App?

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4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Tinder — the world’s most downloaded dating app — turns 10 in September. Many see the app as having transformed online dating from a last resort for older people to a young person’s game: according to Tinder, more than half of its members are between the ages of 18 and 25. More than 75 billion matches have taken place on the app — and we want to hear if you were part of any of them. How was your relationship with the app kindled — or extinguished — and what have you learned from the times you swiped right? Guests: Jesús G. Smith, assistant professor of Ethnic Studies, Lawrence University Emily Witt, staff writer, The New Yorker; author, "Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love" Alina Liu, clinical psychologist in San Francisco Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:28.3	Coming up on forum, Tinder, the world's most downloaded dating app, turns 10 next month.
1:35.3	And we want to hear from you. Have you tried Tinder? Did it help you start a relationship?
1:40.3	Or did you find using the app was a relationship itself? Apps have deeply affected the way we think about dating, sex, and love.
1:49.0	So what have you learned over a decade of swiping right?
1:53.0	Tell us on Forum after this news. I'm Mina Kim.
2:13.6	When Tinder launched on an L.A. college campus in 2012, few knew how popular
2:20.7	it would become. According to the dating app's website, it's now been downloaded more than 500
2:25.9	million times across 190 countries, making billions of matches along the way. Like this one,
2:33.1	here's one of the voicemails we got before the show.
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