Tinder Bans Under 18s From Site

Tinder Bans Under 18s From Site

Tinder is a location based dating and social discovery service application that facilitates communication between mutually interested users, allowing matched users to chat

Tinder is an app that connects people so that they can have sex, has announced that it will ban people under the age of 18 from its service.

 In a statement, the firm's Rosette Pambakian that the company has "the responsibility of constantly assessing our different user experiences."

The user experience for 13 year olds, presumably, wasn't up to scratch because of the whole thing about using Tinder being a crime.

 "Consistent with this responsibility," Pambakian continued, "we have decided to discontinue service for under 18 users." From next week, all users will have to be 18 or older in order to decide if someone's worth doing a sex with on the basis of how good they look.

But age verification on the internet is hard, and Tinder is making sure that it can't be blamed for any laxity. Instead, the app will use the entirely reliable, infallible system of polling your age from your Facebook profile.

It would be hard for a busy teenager to change his/her age on the social network or create a fresh profile altogether.

No matter how ineffectual the move is, it's still a step on the road for Tinder tidying up its service. Earlier this month, CEO Sean Rad pledged that the app would offer a better experience for transgendered people looking for a connection