In late May, Tinder announced the roll out of a feature that shows you potential matches based on public locations you’ve both visited. Places, which is powered by Foursquare and Mapbox, is currently being tested in parts of Australia and Chile, and Tinder plans to take it worldwide in the future.

If you’ve browsed for apps lately, then you probably noticed that Tinder is now the highest grossing app on Apple’s App Store.

The dating app just released “Tinder Gold” last week, allowing “Tinder Plus” users to see who swiped right on their profile without swiping right back, and this feature is obviously giving Tinder users what they wanted.

You might be wondering if all of the “extras” of a paid subscription get you closer to finding the perfect match. Well, you shouldn’t get your hopes up. Relationships are more than algorithms. But it is possible.

Just look at these trends and statistics reported by popular online dating apps:

• From Christmas through Valentine’s Day, Match.com reports a 60 percent spike in new singles joining their network.

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In the late 90s and early 00s, matchmaking sites eHarmony and Match.com dominated the world of online dating. They targeted love-seekers in their 30s and older – charging a membership of “$40 to $60 a month.”

Then Tinder came around in 2012 and turned the membership model on its head. Instead of having users pay a premium for a chance at love, Tinder launched a free app and relied on word of mouth for it to spread. With enough “swipes” later, a trend had begun. Tinder quickly grew a younger audience of daters, from “close-knit communities” to “nine million daily active users” and “one million new users a week,” according to the company.

Increasingly, court cases are using social media to gather evidence. As criminal lawyer Brooke Winter said, “There is no such thing as a private conversation on social media.”

The Tinder Murder Case

You might have already read about the Gable Tostee case. It was a Tinder date gone astray in Australia that ended in death. In 2014, 26-year-old Warriena Wright matched with 28-year-old Gable Tostee on Tinder. The two flirted over text conversations, then met for the first time on August 8, 2014. They met up at a mall and went back to Tostee’s apartment. At 2 a.m., Wright fell 14 stories to her death.

Unfortunately, as many users have found, breaking up with some online dating sites and apps can be harder to do than simply hitting the delete button. An article in Quartz recently listed multiple complaints from former Tinder users who thought they had left the site only to find out later their profile was still up and being sent to potential matches.