“I never used a dating app again … ”
Photo: Getty Images After a couple hours of swiping on Bumble not so very long ago, I had exactly one decent match, a programmer in San Francisco. He had an honest face slung on two good cheekbones, and he posed with acceptable-enough props . Naturally, I messaged him about the computer. After a back-and-forth about the game Crystal Quest, he suggested we hang out.
As soon as they ran this code, it was off to the races. Conversations streamed in, around 400 of them unfurling between the most unlikely people, the effect something like same-sex Tinder chat roulette. like the way you talk as well :). It’d be fun to continue this conversation in person. Is your alcohol rule strict? How about meeting up at a wine bar or a tea lounge? I know some cool venues :).Ya I’d love to continue talking in person. And the alcohol rule is strict for me, but I don’t have any problem with other people drinking or being around it. Lemme give you my big disclaimer though first. I’m a single dad with a two year old daughter who is with me half the time.
Several days into the prank, Sean remembers Haley texting with alarm from a bar. On her phone, she could see the two halves of conversations separately, and she wasn’t always able to follow who was talking to whom. But on that evening, she could tell that two men were planning to meet and she felt a stomach-mangling, subwoofer-like pulse in her throat. “They could show up to a bar and explain whatever they’re wearing and realize it’s a huge joke and feel humiliated,” Haley told me.
In the ensuing chaos, users generally had one of two theories. They either thought Tinder was buggy and fucking with them . Or they thought their correspondent was buggy and fucking with them. His plan was to hoard first pick-up lines sent to someone like Haley’s account and then to program a Twitter bot to use that material to algorithmically generate new lines. But when he started looking into Tinder, he discovered an unpublished application programming interface — essentially, a guide to what code you need to write to be able to interact with the app. Social media networks like Facebook and Twitter publish APIs to encourage developers to make apps for them.
Ultimately, Sean concluded that his prank was gray hat, for two reasons. First, he wasn’t targeting specific individuals to spy on. He wasn’t trying to extract information. Second, the conversations he was observing were ostensibly introductory. He wasn’t eavesdropping on a revealing discussion between old friends or business associates. He was observing how people presented themselves, for the first time, to others.
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