GRINDR: The demise of the gay community
The advancements of the Internet have recreated just how we conduct and sustain interpersonal relationships. Through electronic communication, individuals can interchange frequent electronic messages and join diverse social activities exclusively through cyberspace. Online dating, for example, has profoundly altered the manner of establishing a relationship. Dating app users can link up across vast geographic regions, and send a series of pictures, text messages and/or video to entice prospective companions. Grindr, a male seeking male electronic application, has developed into the most distinguished mobile dating app in the gay community. Upon registry, Grindr users are asked their location, height, interests and sexual classification for locating nearby singles to see. In addition, the men are given the option to provide a 240- character bio. The app pulls basic information that is provided and turns it into a digital profile that allows users to sift through a variety of profiles and select their ideal partner with the intention of meeting in person shortly after chatting. Grindr’s unique mobile aesthetic has generated a high volume of user applications to download the …show more content…
With the message of equality spreading like wildfire, but it should be noted that we become the victims of our own success. LGBT centers, at certain periods of time were the only foundation for support, but have now become less central in the lives of gay people. This is because the discrepancy of gay “culture” resumes to be unclear, and our sense of community is slowly disintegrating (Schaff). Since the LGBT community became so widely accepted we’ve made no qualms in creating sub communities – and it’s in these broken off sections we have settled ourselves. Eventually these groups became the only one to accept us on a nonjudgmental level.
The advancements of the Internet have recreated just how we conduct and sustain interpersonal relationships. Through electronic communication, individuals can interchange frequent electronic messages and join diverse social activities exclusively through cyberspace. Online dating, for example, has profoundly altered the manner of establishing a relationship. Dating app users can link up across vast geographic regions, and send a series of pictures, text messages and/or video to entice prospective companions. Grindr, a male seeking male electronic application, has developed into the most distinguished mobile dating app in the gay community. Upon registry, Grindr users are asked their location, height, interests and sexual classification for locating nearby singles to see. In addition, the men are given the option to provide a 240- character bio. The app pulls basic information that is provided and turns it into a digital profile that allows users to sift through a variety of profiles and select their ideal partner with the intention of meeting in person shortly after chatting. Grindr’s unique mobile aesthetic has generated a high volume of user applications to download the …show more content…
With the message of equality spreading like wildfire, but it should be noted that we become the victims of our own success. LGBT centers, at certain periods of time were the only foundation for support, but have now become less central in the lives of gay people. This is because the discrepancy of gay “culture” resumes to be unclear, and our sense of community is slowly disintegrating (Schaff). Since the LGBT community became so widely accepted we’ve made no qualms in creating sub communities – and it’s in these broken off sections we have settled ourselves. Eventually these groups became the only one to accept us on a nonjudgmental level.