Posted on May 30, 2011 by Brent Lambert

Somehow I’ve resisted the use of GRINDR, the ubiquitous iPhone app that can tell you where the nearest/hottest gay man is so you can bump uglies — I mean, “get to know eachother.” A friend of mine lives in a small British town with a population of 300 homes and recently noticed one night how something unusual was going on with his GRINDR app: “I live in a village of 300 houses and there is someone on Grindr 460 metres away!” An hour later he FB’d again: “There must be some homo party going on that i don’t know about as now there is another person 190 metres away!!! The men in the white pointed hats will be swarming through soon.” At a recent concert I was with another friend of mine who pulled out his GRINDR and noticed there was a hunky gay man a mere 3-metres away.  Of course we spinned our heads around to track him down but the possible love connection remained elusive.  Over and over again I keep noticing the massive popularity of GRINDR, which I can confirm is a massive success judging from the number of my friends of mine in Montreal who are addicted to it.  With more than 1,000,000 users in 180 countries, including Iraq, Iran, and Haiti, it’s being dubbed a “revolutionary dating tool” as well as “the scariest gay bar on earth that is all over the earth.” For the GRINDR newbies out there, Vanity Fair author Matt Kapp decodes the lingua franca of the smart-phone-assisted gay dating app and wonders if GRINDR can translate into hetero.

Read More @ http://www.feelguide.com/2011/05/30/vanity-fairs-report-on-popular-geosocial-networking-app-grindr-can-it-work-in-straight-market/