When Naseer Ashraf, a handsome 25-year-old composer from Wakefield, Rhode Island, goes out with his gay friends, they're all about cruising hot guys. But even though there will be dozens of good-looking men all around them at the bar, they prefer to flirt with those who are nowhere in sight.
“We call them Grindr parties,” says Ashraf. “We all have our iPhones out, we open them up to our Grindr and we'll be like, ‘I'm talking to this person,' and they'll be like, ‘Forget that; look at this person.' It's totally addictive.”
If you've never heard of Grindr (pronounced “grinder”), you're old, straight, or a former Republican senator with a penchant for foot-tapping in airport bathrooms.
Since its debut in 2009, Grindr, an app that uses GPS technology to find other gay men in the vicinity, has become a worldwide phenomenon with more than 2.6 million users in 192 countries including Iran, Iraq and even Sri Lanka.
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