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So OKCupid changed its app to be more like Tinder.

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And Tinder (which was always Grindr for straights) changed its app to be more like Snapchat.

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Facebook’s trying to be Snapchat too, but Facebook tries to be everything. It was trying to be Foursquare (which was improved Dodgeball) when that was hot; it’s been AIM for ages now; there’s buzz about its app being able to tell and post what you’re listening to, add that to last year’s ability to tag posts with mood and I think in the year of our lord 2013 it decided what the hell, let’s be Livejournal.

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Which, the first instinct is to laugh - the hot new thing is 1999! Yeah, well, Grindr was always just a weaponized Hot Or Not.

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