Grindr is a popular location-based social networking application for smartphones, predominantly used by gay men. This study investigates why users leave Grindr. Drawing on interviews with 16 men who stopped using Grindr, this article reports on the varied definitions of leaving, focusing on what people report leaving, how they leave and what they say leaving means to them. We argue that leaving is not a singular moment, but a process involving layered social and technical acts \u2013 that understandings of and departures from location-based media are bound up with an individual\u2019s location. Accounts of leaving Grindr destabilize normative definitions of both \u2018Grindr\u2019 and \u2018leaving\u2019, exposing a set of relational possibilities and spatial arrangements within and around which people move. We conclude with implications for the study of non-use and technological departure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Grindr is a popular location-based social networking application for smartphones, predominantly used by gay men. This study investigates why users leave Grindr. 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