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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Rachel Hall

MYSTERIOUS: Tinder takes dating back to the 90s with blind date feature - What They Never Told You

Cilla Black with a contestant on the TV show Blind Date in 1990.
Cilla Black with a contestant on the UK TV show Blind Date in 1990. Photograph: ITV/REX

From low-rise jeans to reruns of the sitcom Friends, generation Z has a seemingly endless appetite for 90s and early 00s nostalgia.

Now that extends to their romantic lives, as Tinder has introduced a blind date feature to boost its popularity among young people – by enabling them to meet partners in a way that resembles the pre-smartphone era.

The new feature on the dating app matches people based on preferences, and enables them to make conversation before they are allowed to view each other’s photos. It will shortly be available in the US before being expanded globally.

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