Students Freak Out Over Binary Dating App

Students Freak Out Over Binary Dating App

Recently, students at Harvard criticized the computer science club on campus for creating a Valentine’s Day dating app which only allowed for users to choose between the two genders. Datamatch is a survey app which matches up students and then pays for Valentine’s Day meals.

However, one of the developers pointed out the difficulty in creating an app for all the proposed genders and combinations;  any system would have to place restraints on the number of options and dating choices.

Source: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/2/15/uc-criticizes-datamatch-gender-options/

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