Teenagers are using a popular smartphone app called Tinder to arrange sexual encounters with strangers , it has been revealed. A 16-year-old Melbourne teenager said that app was being used by teens to find other teens who were interested in getting physical with no emotional connection.
Stuff.co.nz reported. Another 18-year-old Melbourne teenager said that she joined Tinder when she was 17 and always asked for sex via the app and a lot of teenagers used the application as a way to get sex.
La Trobe university professor Anne Mitchell said that it was quite inappropriate for 13-year-olds to have access to such an app but these things were very hard to police.
A Tinder spokeswoman said 7 per cent of Tinder users globally were 13 to 17 years old but could not provide exact figures for Australia.
Tinder is a popular app with an age restriction of 13 and above, allows users to ‘like’ or ‘pass’ on fellow users’ profiles based on their picture, with a mutual like opening the possibility to chat via the app.
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