China’s first-generation dating app has been shut down by Tencent - Quartz
China’s first-generation dating app has been shut down by Tencent - Quartz |
- China’s first-generation dating app has been shut down by Tencent - Quartz
- Man Faces Charges After Robbing Victim He Met Through Dating App - CBS Chicago
- Roxborough Man Arrested For Allegedly Raping 14-Year-Old Girl He Met On Dating App, Police Say - CBS Philly
- Police want more tips about MacKenzie Lueck's social media and phone activity - KUTV 2News
| China’s first-generation dating app has been shut down by Tencent - Quartz Posted: 25 Jun 2019 02:18 AM PDT Tencent, the Chinese technology giant that operates the ubiquitous messaging app WeChat, has shut down an anonymous chat function that at one time was one of the few outlets where people could vent their secrets or emotions, and even make new friends and meet potential dates. The function, named "drift bottle" or piaoliuping (漂流瓶), was available mainly on QQ Mail, a mail service provider associated with QQ, an instant messaging app launched by Tencent in 1999 before the emergence of WeChat in 2010. On drift bottle, users could "throw" bottles containing either a text or voice message into a virtual ocean or "pick up" floating ones. The function allowed users to stay anonymous, but people could also exchange contact details through the bottles. Tencent in fact announced in December that it would suspend drift bottle on both QQ Mail and WeChat, after it found that users had been spreading pornography or soliciting prostitution on the platform, part of a broader campaign to "clean up" the internet by the government in recent years. In a statement in April, the company said it would officially shut down the chat programme on QQ Mail on June 24. It has not said whether drift bottle would be resumed on WeChat.  Screen grab/Drift Bottle For many of China's internet users, particularly those born in the 1980s, drift bottle was a go-to-place for finding either friendship or romance online before the proliferation of other apps that performed similar functions. With the rise of local dating apps and social networks such as Momo and Weibo, however, drift bottle is now largely an object of nostalgia for China's internet users. Some of drift bottle's users took to Weibo to express their sadness at the termination of the platform, with the hashtag "QQ Mail stops drift bottle operation"(in Chinese) read over 95 million times since yesterday (June 24). "Drift bottle is my matchmaker. Eight years ago I 'threw' a bottle that was 'picked up' by a guy who is now my husband. I hereby mourn the death of it, as well as the passing of my younger years!" wrote a Weibo user.  |
| Man Faces Charges After Robbing Victim He Met Through Dating App - CBS Chicago Posted: 25 Jun 2019 08:45 AM PDT CHICAGO (CBS)– An Elgin man was charged in connection with an armed robbery of a victim he met on a dating app. According to the Kane County State's Attorney, Dashaun Harvest, 20, has been charged with armed robbery with a firearm and aggravated robbery with a firearm.
Officials said the victim arranged to meet with Harvest after communicating through a dating app. In January, officials said, when the victim showed up, Harvest pointed a gun and demanded cash. The victim gave Harvest $50 and before fleeing the scene. "After a months-long investigation, police identified Harvest as the alleged offender," Kane County officials stated in a press release. Harvest appeared in court Monday and his bond was set at $200,000. He is expected back in court on July 3.  |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2019 06:45 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A 28-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl he met through a dating app, according to police. Authorities say the sexual assault took place Monday on the 4600 block of Umbria Street in Roxborough. Police say Michael Kaufman was arrested on the block around 7 p.m. Monday night. Police say Kaufman met the girl on a dating app called "Skout," where the victim posed as an older woman.  Credit: CBS3 Kaufman is facing a litany of charges, including rape, statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and corruption of a minor, among others.  |
| Police want more tips about MacKenzie Lueck's social media and phone activity - KUTV 2News Posted: 25 Jun 2019 05:19 PM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content]Police want more tips about MacKenzie Lueck's social media and phone activity KUTV 2News After they released surveillance photos of MacKenzie Lueck, taken less than an hour after she vanished on June 17, 2019, Salt Lake Police said they need more ...  |
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