SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Addicted to swiping right? Lawsuit claims Tinder and Hinge are designed to get users hooked.
A new lawsuit claims that dating apps Tinder and Hinge are designed to addict users and lock them into a perpetual loop.
If you're swiping on dating apps for hours, you're not alone — and a new lawsuit claims it's by design.
Dating apps such as Tinder and Hinge are intentionally addictive, a class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in California on Valentine's Day claims.
Hidden algorithms push users to stay on the apps and "gamify dating" — counterintuitive to the apps' intended purpose to help people find connections and form relationships, six plaintiffs contend in the lawsuit.
[....] "The lawsuit is a bit absurd, if I'm honest," psychologist and relationship coach Jo Hemmings told The Washington Post, adding that "responsibility lies in the hands of the user," not the apps or developers.
In the future someday people might venture outside and date actual humans in person.
(Score: 5, Informative) by r_a_trip on Monday February 26 2024, @12:38PM (6 children)
As a polyamorous individual, I am on a few dating apps. There are a few who conjure up a notification of people supposedly looking at your profile, when you haven't been active on them for a while. When you go look who they might be, there are no new lookers. But then you have the app open... Might as well look who the new people are and swipe a bit. The last bit is of course wholly the responsibility of the user, but the suspicious notification gets you to open the app more often then not...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2024, @01:12PM (2 children)
Apps have notifications?......
.... I'm half-shocked. Like, you don't turn those off immediately? Apps never send me notifications. Maybe two, the messaging apps that I use to actually talk to people. Every other app's notifications are turned off the moment they create the first one.
Like.. notifications? from an app? it's so alien to me that I just typed a reply about it.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2024, @01:55PM
.... And that's why the polyamorous weirdo is getting laid and not you.
(Score: 2) by Ox0000 on Monday February 26 2024, @02:23PM
I fall in the same bucket as you.
Technology is like animals: they needs to be domesticated before they can be useful. Mine get their vocal cords yanked as soon as I (have to) acquire them.
Or to put it in the words of Arrested Development: my phone is where apps are neither seen nor heard.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Monday February 26 2024, @01:24PM (1 child)
To be fair, LinkedIn does the same thing: "Find out what your coworkers have been up to ..." and the answer is "nothing worth posting on there".
This is what these kinds of platforms call "driving engagement".
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday February 26 2024, @04:46PM
Unlike personal relationships which (usually) expect monogamous fidelity, LinkedIn is where you can "professionally" advertise your job dissatisfaction to your current employer by the simple act of updating your resume...
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday February 26 2024, @02:32PM
I have listed a few NFTs on OpenSea - and like the majority of the trendy NFT-curious crowd, I lost interest and hadn't looked back in over a year.
Through some random stimulus I _did_ look back at my NFTs last week, and "bing" within 12 hours I received a notice of someone else expressing interest in my NFTs as well... after over a year of no such notifications.
Clearly, OpenSea has something similar to what you describe: trying to extend engagement. I gave them the benefit of the doubt, perhaps my activity with my NFTs put them into some kind of higher rotation and they got more views, so they got some interest. Still no meaningful sales, though...
🌻🌻 [google.com]