For the better part of the past two decades online bulletin boards like Craigslist, dating websites such as eHarmony and Match, and endless pay-for-play sexual hookup websites have provided the single, lonely, horny, cheating, or simply bored man or woman with the fastest and most direct route to meet, date, romance, and/or simply have sex.

As modern life has shifted away from the home or office-based computers and become all about the smartphone, we now have apps that allow us to literally “hook-up” on the go. Smartphone “friend finder” apps like Ashley Madison (for marrieds and partnered individuals seeking “out of the roost” sex), Skout and Blendr (for single straight men and women), Grindr (to find male-male partners) or Pink Cupid (to find lesbians and bisexual partners) — among many others — are actually friend finders in name only. Leer más