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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: 4, Interesting) by Freeman on Monday February 26 2024, @02:26PM (1 child)
*Insert newest shiny thing* is designed to hook the user into buying more. News at 11.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday February 26 2024, @02:53PM
User engagement is the new advertising jingle. How to get "engagement" from your audience. Back in the "Brill Cream" (just a dab'll do ya!) days companies hired advertisers to get people "humming" their product name the most for the fewest seconds of advertising on radio/television. These days it's who can get eyeballs stuck on their app for the most hours per day... It's all much cheaper than leasing prime real-estate to get the most foot/vehicle traffic past your storefronts.
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