Match Group (Tinder, Hinge, POF, OKCupid & more) being sued for designing their sites solely to be addictive

[concise]

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/tinder-other-match-dating-apps-encourage-compulsive-use-lawsuit-claims-2024-02-14/

Class-action lawsuit claims Tinder, Hinge dating apps designed to addict users

A lawsuit filed in San Francisco on Wednesday -- Valentine's Day -- asserts that dating apps Tinder and Hinge are intentionally designed to make their users addicts.

www.cbsnews.com

tl;dr - it's not really supposed to work.

 

[Deltron]

the ones suing are all guys, i bet.

i remember reading some articles about how all them apps highly favor women (and why wouldn't they), and the ratio is huge.

 

[concise]

the ones suing are all guys, i bet.

i remember reading some articles about how all them apps highly favor women (and why wouldn't they), and the ratio is huge.

Tinder is addictive due to a famous 1948 psychological experiment

Tinder executive Jonathan Badeen has admitted he based the dating app's famous 'swiping' mechanic around a classic experiment from famed Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Im Exhausted]

I don't think of them as addictive but people are dependent on them if they don't have a social life

 

[Who Not How]

Anything can be addictive.

They are designed to persuade you to spend money tho imo. They are businesses.

They won't show you which profiles liked you for a while hoping you pay for a membership just to see 80% of the matches are