Love Is A Choice With Freedom
- Xinmeng Jiang
- Nov 27, 2021
- 3 min read
Updated: Nov 30, 2021
When it comes to love, what will arise in your mind? The first reaction in my mind is a rapid heartbeat. Looking forward to the beauty of lovemaking people full of excitement, to the fast heartbeats during the indefinite period and dating period, and even to the bitter quarrel and negotiation in love relationship.
What is the form of love? Perhaps it is the traditional or mainstream love between men and women, or equally beautiful feelings of the minority. There are thousands of emotions and forms of love, but what remains unchanged is that all love is a free choice, no matter which country, race or group you come from. Grindr is such a platform that is open, inclusive and allows you to choose freely.
About
Joel Simkhai, the founder of Grindr, once said that he was always curious about who was gay among the people around him and wanted to figure it out. Based on this question, Grindr, a male search system evolved from Guy plus Finder, was born in 2009. Interestingly, the idea of Grindr comes from coffee grinder. Joel wants to use a word masculine enough to tell people that Grindr is not only gay or a simple mixture, but more importantly, is grinding. It can be anything, freedom, choice and courage of love. The logo of Grindr also represents the corresponding explanation. The black mask from African and Polynesia primitive tribes is highly mysterious, bringing us back to the most basic and genuine needs of human beings, freedom, relaxation and socializing.
From Function To Emotion
Once creating an account, user can add a photo and a short resume about themselves, but this is usually saved for sexual preferences rather than information about your hobbies and interests. When looking through the app’s interface, user will see different people who are listed in order of distance and choose his “cup of tea” to look their photos and send them message. But this permission is limited every day for all of users. They are only allowed to view a certain number of profiles a day. However how does Grindr make money? It combines freemium and premium revenue model to get access to users. If user want to know more, the Grindr XTRA can bring them benefits. On the one hand, it gives user opportunities to see six times the number of locals and interact with them. XTRA also has a feature that allows users to come in to touch with men from all over the world and there are not anymore ads. This premium membership costs 19 euros monthly, 25.99 euros for three months and 59.99 euros for a year.
Up to now, Grindr has become the world’s largest mobile social networking program, a liberal dating platform specially designed for gay, bi, trans and queer, with tens of thousands of users. Whenever and wherever users are, alone or not, they only need to open Grindr to locate the surrounding people in real-time through GPS and find their favored friends to chat with or hook up in the shortest time.
As Joel said, he builds this platform driven by curiosity to make friends who recognize himself. Sometimes we must compromise and make changes in life. However, we do have to live with uncompromising courage. Freedom to choose is a courage. Freedom to love is also a courage.
So, Grindr will give you the answer.
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