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laresSun 04/07/10 15:58

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"Grindr (pronounced "grinder") is a free downloadable iPhone app which, it promises, will help you "Find gay, bi, curious guys for free near you!" Grindr harnesses GPS, allowing you to establish who else in your direct vicinity is also using Grindr. It shows you – on a gridded display – who these men are and what they look like; it'll tell you how far away from you (in feet, and even more thrillingly, fractions of feet) they are standing; and it will allow you to "chat" them, if they take your fancy. Although buried deep in the Grindr ethos is the idea that you shouldn't do in cyberspace what you could be easily be doing in person. Don't "chat" when you could actually, you know, chat."

"...et he says he gets more requests for a straight Grindr from women than he does from straight men. "Many more. Which might be because straight women are often friends with gay men, so know about Grindr… But I do think it would be relevant for women. I do." Furthermore: "We'll redesign it; we'll call it something different, market it differently. We have to. Gay men are very territorial. They want to keep it all to themselves, but they say: 'If you have to make a straight version, call it something else. Grindr is ours.'""

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