Grindr, the new wildly successful, male-just venue-based connections facilitator to possess gay, bisexual and gay-curious guys, provides inserted 2 mil users in two years. Now, the newest creator out of Grindr provides revealed yet another software Blendr one to replicates Grindr’s theme, with one key twist: it permits girls to register, also.

Grindr founder and you will Chief executive officer Joel Simkhai claims you to Blendr, and therefore launched on new iphone and Facebook to the September 8, is not on hookups, however, friendships.

Simkhai keeps installed a robust selection of privacy control to protect ladies’ coverage from predators and creeps, exactly what it really is troubled is some combination of societal stigma and you can dating choice (for genders)

“We looked at social networking and believed that it was not really personal,” Simkhai said when you look at the a job interview. “Having Blendr, we are getting ‘social’ to the social media. (more…)