Grindr makes us healthier and better looking

Grindr makes us healthier and better looking

tumblr_md96wpObcT1r6jwgyo1_r1_1280ACCORDING to the founder and chief executive of Grindr, Joel Simkhai, his creation has made the gay community healthier and better looking.

He believed seven million members in 192 countries strived to be better-looking than the square next to them on the dating app.

In an interview on the Huffington Post, Simkhai said: “I’m very proud if Grindr has forced us to up our game. To brush our teeth. Comb our hair. Eat right. Go to the gym. Be a healthy person. Cut back on the smoking. Cut back on the bad things and look your best… I certainly go to the gym more because of Grindr. I’m competing with the guy a space away from me on that grid.”

Simkhai also believed that his app has helped those who are in isolated parts of countries around the world where there may not be a gay bar in town, connect and exchange photos.

As for Grindr’s critics, who believe the app and others like it are hurting gay bars and reducing gay men to unrealistic ideals, Simkhai responded in the interview by saying: “From my perspective, before we came onboard in the day of the Internet, of the pure Internet — computers and laptops — you essentially had to stay home to use an online service,” he countered.

“So you had a binary choice. You either would go out or you would use your computer. Grindr now gives you another choice, where you can be online and offline. You can be at the bar on Grindr. So you don’t have to choose between going to the gay bar and going online … We’re men. We visualise. We see before we hear, before we think, before we do anything else. That’s how we are. I haven’t changed that. That’s what our evolution has taught us to do.”

What do you think of Grindr? Has it made you healthier and better looking? Or is the app destroying the ‘gay scene’? Comment below.

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6 responses to “Grindr makes us healthier and better looking”

  1. grindr has allowed a new generation of self hating homophobes stay in their own world and not forced to go out to the gay community and get over their issues. everyone now is straight acting and racist and rest. easy to stay like that now. Thanks for helping to destroy what community we have left.

  2. Grindr’s claims of making people healthier and better looking are mere here say with no factual evidence to back it up. My own personal experience with Grindr is a little different to the previous posts, I would describe it as more a love/hate relationship. I experienced all those negative things the previous posters described. I also got 2 good friends and a bf out of it. We’ve been together for 3 years now. As someone who does not live near the city I can tell you that dating apps are invaluable to meeting potential dates and friends. There simply isn’t anywhere to meet potential dates when you live in a bogan town. Yes it is crass and gross at times, ok most of the time, but Grindr was a successful venture for me.

  3. Hi Chris O,

    Love the response! Accurate, amusing and creative.

    Dirty bung hole really did provide some chuckles at the office.

    ATB,

    Chris

  4. Grindr creates more Body Dysmorphia than any thing else….

    Rather than healthier better looking you get rude, intrusive, steroid pumped, small balled, bad attitude, wanna-be- Ken dolls with the personality of turnips that can’t pass by a mirror with out recreating the Greek Narcosis story.. And falling in love with their own reflections!! That have the the linguistic skills of a Neanderthal…

    Id rather meet a real person in a real place that can talk and converse that Doesn’t ask to see dick/naked or pics 2 seconds after meeting you.. Like WTF??
    No real person wants to see your cock out, butt spread with your dirty bung hole showing two seconds after they meet you–
    –Unlike A plastic Ken doll who wants to try before he buys..

    What happened to romance?? Having a crush on someone and taking things from there??
    Try picking up a real person at a real place!!
    Get out there and meet real people and make friends along the way !!!

    It’s no wonder so many of the pubs and clubs are closing shop. Why go out when you can Grunt through a app have anonymous hookups and never meet again. Why do you never meet up with a app pick up again??
    It’s because your as boring as a turnip!

    Get a real life and you might find real people in it!!

    There’s more to life than nameless faces with buff bodies with the attention span of a sea-slug!

    -Sorry if I offended and Kens’ out there.. There are a few real people called Ken still out there!

  5. You are so right Chris,may I add that with these apps you are also more likely to be greeted with a profile picture of a body part,usually sagging.
    And the guys on these apps are on many more,usually partnered,and after just sex outside their boring relationship,as they are bored with what they have.
    As a single man I have become frustrated with mind set of most of Gay Men in a Sydney,it doesn’t matter if your young,old,good looking or average,but most important you have a kind soul,no one in Sydney wants a relationship.
    So happy I ditched these apps,their soul consuming,and they purely amount to quicker std infection.
    Glad I’ve moved on from them in good health,this is a true story.
    Thanks

  6. What a load of b******s. Grindr has done nothing more other than spread sexual disease through a unstable and boring platform. At what point does the app actively promote healthy sex? I have only seen this a couple of times through a couple of “Hey… Check this out to make us look good” broadcasts.

    Now with the age of the ‘selfie’ of course people are going to feel better looking; however, only through the sheer frustration of taking that picture from which they feel like they have achieved personal gratification from the 20 other images that did not quite make the cut. You know, the latest evolution of profile pictures from social networking… The gratification and satisfaction of a good profile picture has never changed. It is now a shallowness with Grindr from which users hide behind a false pretence to bag the user(s) in particular, as quickly as they can; then move on after.

    For instance; the picture choice of the Ken doll in the article is more than perfect to illustrate. Ken is plastic, false and shallow. He is lying to Barbie about his sexuality, much like he will probably lie to other users about his sexual health status to ensure he gets what he wants.

    What Joe has not mentioned is that with this surf everywhere you go created with Grindr, it may be the point that you can chat in a bar; however, you are only chatting through your app and telephone. The point made in the question asked to him is more about the social side. Most users on Grindr are looking for one thing, sex. Now in bars; all you find are people online cruising for their next escapade and not actually socialising.

    Test; Download Grindr with a group of a friends (if not already done so)and conduct the Rowntrees Fruit Pastille Experiment. You know, the one from which you can’t eat a fruit pastille withouth chewing. Instead, try a social occasion in the bar. Go the whole evening without logging into Grindr, I bet you can’t.

    Surely, with the above in mind, the title should be; Grindr Makes Us Open Targets For STI’s And Shallow.