Tinder has become synonymous with modern dating, and its new app for Apple TV is allowing people to conduct their love lives in full view of friends and family in the living room. But will people actually use it to start a potential new relationship, or just for a bit of human window shopping?

Dating apps may have shed much of their stigma, but they haven’t necessarily lost all of its risks. Most people on dating sites aren’t entirely honest – 81% lie on their profile. Boston-based Aste Investigators is a team of private investigators that will perform background checks on online dating suitors.

The internet has transformed sex beyond recognition, but whether this change is for the better or worse is still open to discussion. We sit down with Lisa Wade, associate professor of sociology and author of American Hookup, to explore the behaviours attached to hook-up culture.

As swiping right has become the default in digital dating, OkCupid is reinforcing its core value of ‘substance over selfies’ with an ad campaign that reclaims the acronym DTF. By exploring the ways people get to know each other beyond the physical, it’s making a statement against hook-up culture.