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Tinder opens the door to old-fashioned matchmaking by mums
The app’s new feature lets family and friends have their say on selection of dates.
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Tinder announced it would add Matchmaker, which enables parents and friends to scour profiles and recommend a selection for dates.
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Emma Jacobs
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Swiping right for love would have baffled Mr Rochester but the brooding anti-hero might have found one new dating feature all too familiar. Last week, some 170 years after the publication of Jane Eyre, Tinder announced that the dating app would add Matchmaker, which enables parents and friends to scour profiles and recommend a selection for dates.
Or, as Tinder put it in words that would have made Charlotte Bronte blanch: Bringing “your circle of trust into your dating journey”.
