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Tinder Changed the Game - from Land of the Giants: Dating Games

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The Rise of Hookup Culture

Stanford study found that more heterosexual couples met online than any other way. Tinder's design, the swipe function, was so popular, it became a sort of de facto feature of the dating app landscape. Apps like Bumble and early versions of hinge also featured the swipe. But Tinder was affecting how people treated each other outside of the app too.

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