
It was inevitable that a programmer would be hired to take the technological brilliance of the iPhone and merge it with a gay's favorite pastime: hooking up.

Behold Grindr, a new iPhone app that uses GPS to find guys in your area looking for the same thing you are: No-strings screwing. Or, for the more modest: An opportunity to meet a new platonic friend for skinny vanilla lattes or professional networking! Riiiight.
Grindr is the type of platform that, like any website dedicated to meeting other sex partners, increases in value with the more users signed up (just like Facebook and Twitter). The iPhone already uses GPS to recommend nearby restaurants and locate your friends; finding circle jerk buddies was only a logical next step.
Once you check in with your own location, you can see photos of guys in the area. Look promising? Start up a chat right in Grindr and decide whether it's gonna be your place, his place, or the Hilton.
And did we mention the best part? It's free! Which means you can install Grindr just to, uh, see which of your friends are cruising the neighborhood — and then bring it up at your next dinner party. (We've already spotted a close friend, who's betrothed, signed online … but he's "only looking for friends.")
If sites like Manhunt and adam4adam are wise, they've got competing apps en route.
YOUR TURN TO SHARE: Have you used Grindr? Okay, fess up! Tell us how you've used the app to find new "friends."
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If only the photo montage above was realistic.
downelink has the same capability.
I'm always amazed at how these things want you to believe that every gay guy is fit, cute, and hot. Incredible.
I'll have a 'Keith' and a 'Jared' please!
Yes, fries as well.
Sweet! I've been waiting for a Manhunt app, but this will hold me over till then.
@Jason in WV: and white
I just downloaded it Superawsome!
wheres the app with stocky, beefy, hairy guys? cause i'll be waiting for that one
Does Grindr tell you whether the guys have anal gonorrhea or AIDS?
@JP Zenger:
or smell like curry?
long story….
There is also now an app for cruisers with a countdown to cruise timer and social media twist http://www.alwaysbecruising.com/who/index.php
Is this such a good idea? I mean, our gay community has a horrible sub-culture of promiscuity and sleaze, so do we really need to add to it? Personally, I'm abhorred by the promiscuity of men who visit male-male sex clubs.
@Thor:
hahahahahahah
so true!
Just one more tool for sex addicts. Now you can hook up at the airport, grocery store, almost anywhere. Great! Just what the gay community needs.
Why is it just for gay people? We aren't the only ones hooking up, I'll tell you that!
@Thor: It's pretty realistic for my area, I can't speak for yours however.
@jason: OMG Jason! I almost dropped the Bible!!!! LOL