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Have you got text appeal?
Newspaper | The Evening Standard
Date | 4.4.2014
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | misunderstanding, online dating, texting
Summary | Negotiating relationships and sexualities via new media can be challenging. The online forum hetexted.com helps people (mainly women) 'decipher' the social meanings of text messages. Many women use the site to get advice about what their love interest meant with a text message and how they should respond depending on their intentions. The creators of the site report that the demand is huge so that they even expanded to London as well (they had started in New York). They have however realized that dating customs and hence texting conventions are culturally distinctive.
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How girls at Tinder age are being exploited
Newspaper | Belfast Telegraph
Date | 15.3.2014
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | online dating, threat, youth
Summary | Teenagers as young as 13 years old can participate on Tinder. The app creators claim that there is nothing wrong with teenagers connecting with their peers but Tinder is really not as innocent as that. The app, which is colloquially labeled a hook-up app, focuses on looks and the general tenor in chats between 'matches' is strongly oriented towards obtaining sex partners. Parents should pay attention to their children's Tinder use and Tinder should have an older minimal age for having a Tinder profile.
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