I do feel like the article is substantially overstating the generalizability of Grindr's model. I'm not that surprised that people are having substantial conver

I do feel like the article is substantially overstating the generalizability of Grindr's model. I'm not that surprised that people are having substantial conversations on the service, but while the article seems to see this as Grindr evolving beyond its initial premise, I see it as simply a deepening of a mature platform. Which is to say, if you ever took away the hookup aspect of Grindr, everything comes crashing down. The platform isn't growing beyond hookups, it's layering things on top of it, which seems like a natural evolution. This is great, just not quite as world-changing as the article would have us believe. I sincerely doubt Grindr is a herald for a new means of mass communications.