‘Dating apps beneficial for LGBTQ community in India’
5 years, 7 months ago

‘Dating apps beneficial for LGBTQ community in India’

Hindustan Times  

Accepting that the stigma around their community has drastically lessened in the last five years, 73 per cent of the LGBTQ adults believe that online dating apps have benefited their community in a positive way in India, data from dating app Tinder showed on Tuesday. As part of an internal survey, Tinder found out that while 44 per cent LGBTQ adults said online dating apps help them to express themselves more freely, 61 per cent people choose to come out about their sexuality on online platforms rather than coming out to friends and family and 39 per cent say it has made it easier for them to explore their own identities. The survey suggests that dating apps have helped the LGBTQ community discover diversity in terms of dating in India and 35 per cent people from the LGBTQ community who use the services say they have more diverse people to date when compared to their heterosexual counterparts. “Of the 73 per cent people who say online dating apps have had a positive impact, 33 per cent say it has provided more diversity of people to date in terms of sexual orientation, 33 per cent say it has provided more diversity of people to date in terms of race and culture,” the company said.

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As the year ends, winter travel is heating up dating apps with spike in matches
4 weeks, 2 days ago

As the year ends, winter travel is heating up dating apps with spike in matches

Deccan Chronicle  

For Indians, winter is not only about sweaters and hot cocoa- it's the favorite season for the wanderlust and travel enthusiasts, and India's No.1 dating app, QuackQuack's, consumer study shows a record high matches induced by the same love for traveling this winter. The app's recent survey of 10,000 active users from metros, suburbs, and rural areas of India revealed …

More single people than ever are paying for dating apps – despite the ‘stigma’
4 months, 1 week ago

More single people than ever are paying for dating apps – despite the ‘stigma’

The Independent  

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Proud and Loud with Broad Dating Spectrum
6 months, 1 week ago

Proud and Loud with Broad Dating Spectrum

Deccan Chronicle  

In 2024, gender lines may be blurry, but emotional bonds are stronger than before. A known public place is safest to avoid scammers.” Navigating multiple identities While online forums, chat rooms, and dating websites provided new avenues for connection, they also helped the queer community to connect better. Online platforms have undoubtedly revolutionised and allowed singles to explore their identities …

When it is a Queer Feeling
6 months, 2 weeks ago

When it is a Queer Feeling

New Indian Express  

This year, Thailand legalised same-sex marriage—the third Asian country after Taiwan and Nepal to allow it. The Gurugram couple got engaged last year but doesn’t want to go to countries like Thailand to tie the knot. As other Asian countries make strides in accepting queer love, Indian daters from the LGBTQAI+ community, share the ins and outs of queer dating …

Best dating apps in 2024
8 months ago

Best dating apps in 2024

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The best dating apps for 2024 are: Best app for casual dating: Tinder …

The Swipe Pandemic: Are dating apps like Hinge, Bumble and Tinder pushing us to addiction?
8 months, 3 weeks ago

The Swipe Pandemic: Are dating apps like Hinge, Bumble and Tinder pushing us to addiction?

India Today  

“I have been on these dating apps for almost two years now. I don’t get as many matches as I want, but I think it’s the case with every guy on these dating apps," says Sidharth Agarwal*, a 25-year-old software developer from Kolkata. A survey conducted by eHarmony found: A shocking nine in ten singles believe they are "addicted" to …

Dating App Unlocks New Dating Possibilities With These Love Styles
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Dating App Unlocks New Dating Possibilities With These Love Styles

News 18  

Tinder, the world’s most popular dating app is helping daters in India to ‘Know Your Love Style’. Furthermore, an overwhelming 82% of app users consider it crucial to understand their matches’ ‘Love Style’ early on in the dating process. Aahana Dhar, Tinder’s Communications Director, India says, “Gen Z is rewriting the rules of dating, and ‘Time Together’ has emerged as …

A new guide focuses on online dating safety
1 year, 3 months ago

A new guide focuses on online dating safety

Live Mint  

A question that has been asked one too many times recently is: How safe are dating apps? In a bid to make dating safer for users, Tinder has announced a dating safety guide for online daters in India, in collaboration with the Centre for Social Research, a non-profit organisation. The guide leverages the NGO’s insights, research and expertise to create …

Dating apps need to do more for gender and sexuality awareness
1 year, 6 months ago

Dating apps need to do more for gender and sexuality awareness

Live Mint  

The internet, and how safe we felt on it, has changed phenomenally since the early aughts. It was heartening, therefore, to see the dating app Bumble launch a Healthy Queer Dating Guide in an attempt to nurture healthy conversations on its network. At first glance, it seemed this could help those still exploring their sexuality and gender identity, or, more …

A Healthy Queer Dating Guide to Encourage Kindness and Inclusivity
1 year, 6 months ago

A Healthy Queer Dating Guide to Encourage Kindness and Inclusivity

News 18  

Bumble, the women-first dating app, launched a one-of-a-kind Healthy Queer Dating Guide, developed in partnership with Social Media Matters, and supported by Rangeen Khidki, Sappho for Equality, Official Humans of Queer, in consultation with equal rights activists Harish Iyer and Manak Matiyani, aims to promote kindness and encourage an inclusive dating experience on the app and beyond. Recognising the unique …

India's Progressive Dating Renaissance: Fluidity and Inclusivity Lead the Way
1 year, 6 months ago

India's Progressive Dating Renaissance: Fluidity and Inclusivity Lead the Way

News 18  

An app for meeting new people, Tinder, reveals new insights about how young adults in India are boldly challenging societal norms, embracing fluid identities, and reshaping the dating landscape with an open mindset. Rejecting gender norms and redefining relationships Gen Z’s rejection of traditional gender roles is validated by their dating patterns as 76% young daters in India affirm that …

91% Indian LGBTQ+ Travellers Feel More At Ease With Rising Travel Inclusivity
1 year, 7 months ago

91% Indian LGBTQ+ Travellers Feel More At Ease With Rising Travel Inclusivity

News 18  

With a mission to make it easier for everyone to experience the world, regardless of how they identify, Booking.com’s most extensive LGBTQ+ travel research to date spotlights the steady progress, as well as the recent setbacks, for these communities when it comes to travel. Despite the travel industry’s growing recognition of the scope and variety of LGBTQ+ experiences, divisive political …

Swiping left on dating habits and making meaningful connections instead
1 year, 7 months ago

Swiping left on dating habits and making meaningful connections instead

Live Mint  

“Situationships” are not new to Gen Z or younger millennials. In February, Bengaluru held its first-ever “Conscious Dating” event, co-conceptualised by expressive art therapy practitioners Shilpa Ivaturi, 30, and Sarayu Acharya, 27, with event curator Ekta Singh, 35. There is very little talking and lots of artistic activities using techniques such as visualisation, drama and art rooted in the modalities …

Valentine's Day 2023: 5 best free dating apps in India
1 year, 11 months ago

Valentine's Day 2023: 5 best free dating apps in India

Live Mint  

Valentine Week is around the corner. The Bumble Premium subscription offers unlimited swipes, beeline where users can check who already liked them, advanced filters, incognito mode along with travel mode. The Tinder Premium subscription offers unlimited swipes, advanced filters, travel mode, hide ads, control your profile, rewind your likes, priority messaging and more. The Hinge premium offers see everywhere who …

Dating and Deal-Breakers: Daters Reveal Their Most Common Non-Negotiables
1 year, 11 months ago

Dating and Deal-Breakers: Daters Reveal Their Most Common Non-Negotiables

News 18  

India’s most downloaded dating app, QuackQuack, studied 12000 of its users from tier 1 and tier 2 cities, ranging between 25 and 35. The dating and friendship app asked the survey participants what makes them hit like on one person’s profile while passing on another. Ravi Mittal, founder and CEO, says, “From the approximately 24 million chats exchanged last month, …

From a queer lens: 3 lessons from last year, and what I want from dating in 2023
1 year, 11 months ago

From a queer lens: 3 lessons from last year, and what I want from dating in 2023

Live Mint  

“I hope you are mentally okay. Loneliness of the queer experience Anything marked by the interface of dating apps turns people into caricatures of themselves. Queer dating is not very queer I often see a quote from bell hooks floating around on social media: “…queer as not about who you’re having sex with, that can be a dimension of it, …

10 things I have learnt from over 5 years of online dating
2 years, 2 months ago

10 things I have learnt from over 5 years of online dating

Live Mint  

My first impression of dating apps, I must admit, was largely negative. I did, however, pounce on my colleagues when they returned from their dates to find out exactly what it was like — their stories did not assuage my initial trepidation about dating apps, and after one horrendous date soon after, I abstained from using an app for a …

Matrimonial sites devise ways to beat dating apps
2 years, 3 months ago

Matrimonial sites devise ways to beat dating apps

Live Mint  

BENGALURU : Matrimonial platforms such as Matrimony.com Ltd, People Group’s Shaadi.com and Info Edge unit Jeevansathi.com are adding conversational features, video chats and expanding to newer markets to diversify and attract a young Indian population amid a covid-induced spurt in online dating. While dating platforms have been in India for at least seven years, covid accelerated the habits of younger …

Post pandemic, dating apps see surge in users from small towns and cities
2 years, 3 months ago

Post pandemic, dating apps see surge in users from small towns and cities

Live Mint  

The pandemic seems to have changed India’s courtship habits for good. The surge in usage is especially strong outside metro cities, which now account for 70% of users of the dating apps such as Tinder, Bumble and TrulyMadly, company executives said. Nearly 72% of users believe finding love online without meeting them in person is possible, the executives at dating …

10 years of Tinder: How has the app changed the way we date?
2 years, 3 months ago

10 years of Tinder: How has the app changed the way we date?

The Independent  

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Tinder-owner Match ups antitrust pressure on Apple in India with new case
2 years, 4 months ago

Tinder-owner Match ups antitrust pressure on Apple in India with new case

The Hindu  

Tinder-owner Match Group has filed an antitrust case against Apple with the competition regulator in India, accusing it of "monopolistic conduct" that forces developers to pay high commissions for in-app purchases, a legal filing seen by Reuters shows. In the previously unreported India filing, Match argues Apple's conduct restricts innovation and app developers that offer digital services by enforcing the …

Queer connections: How has the dating scene changed for the LGBTQIA+ community?
2 years, 6 months ago

Queer connections: How has the dating scene changed for the LGBTQIA+ community?

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 26, 2022 18:00 IST It has been four years since the Supreme Court decriminalised gay sex. As awareness about the LGBTQIA+ community steadily increases among the Indian public, it becomes important to look at how the queer community manages to find love and negotiate relationships. A majority of the people online are just seeking one-night stands, and …

From colourful handkerchiefs to heart emojis on Instagram, the queer dating landscape has evolved in India
2 years, 6 months ago

From colourful handkerchiefs to heart emojis on Instagram, the queer dating landscape has evolved in India

The Hindu  

Aryan, 24, and Kiaan, 20, met each other on Instagram. Much before Instagram became a phenomenon and a platform for guys to leave hearts behind on other men’s profiles and complain about why they won’t flirt with each other, the queer dating landscape was a very different place: this journey from the streets to sheets has been a long one. …

Global usage of dating apps surge; Tinder, Bumble downloads grow
2 years, 10 months ago

Global usage of dating apps surge; Tinder, Bumble downloads grow

The Hindu  

Global usage of top dating apps surged in January this year, report said. The firm estimated that first-time installs of these top three dating apps collectively reached 106.4 million in 2021 from 91 million installs in 2019. The pandemic further amplified the trend of online dating as more millennials & Gen-Zs shunned their inhibitions and joined the online dating world …

Dating through mobile apps in times of pandemic
2 years, 11 months ago

Dating through mobile apps in times of pandemic

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Valentines’ week has begun and Bumble, a women-first dating app, has shared a few major dating deal breakers in 2022. "Most of the people I found on dating apps are just for casual meetups and hook-ups, however, I also met my partner on an app.” A significant red flag seems to be the difference in political leanings. Bumble …

Why being on dating apps feels different since the pandemic
3 years ago

Why being on dating apps feels different since the pandemic

Live Mint  

A couple of years back, it was common to have friends, friends of friends, and acquaintances introduce their partner and say, “we met on Tinder.” Several people I know even got married to people they had met on dating apps or have been in long-term relationships through dating app-matches for 4-5 years now. And when you wanted to stay off …

Women’s equality emerges as a deciding factor on dating apps
3 years, 4 months ago

Women’s equality emerges as a deciding factor on dating apps

Live Mint  

Certain factors have emerged as non-negotiable, when looking for a match online. Millennials and Gen Z in India are becoming increasingly vocal about women’s rights and gender equality on dating apps, and they expect their prospective matches to do the same. Bumble, a women-first dating app, has found that 86 per cent of single Indians believe that women’s equality is …

Most single Indians believe they can fall in love online
3 years, 4 months ago

Most single Indians believe they can fall in love online

Live Mint  

The pandemic has changed our lives, especially how we communicate with each other. It’s no surprise that people have adapted to new ways of communicating and dating to find and explore meaningful connections during the pandemic. In fact, Bumble’s recent nationwide survey post the second wave of covid-19 showed that 72% of single Indians believe they can fall in love …

Love in Times of Queer: For LGBTQ Desis, Dating Apps Also Mean Bigotry, Hate Crime
3 years, 6 months ago

Love in Times of Queer: For LGBTQ Desis, Dating Apps Also Mean Bigotry, Hate Crime

News 18  

For Hiten Noonwal, a gender-fluid performance artist and designer based in Delhi who teaches at various fashion and designing colleges, it is often about combining art and fashion. Dating apps are a huge part of the online landscape and with India taking some positive strides in the inclusion of the queer community members in the mainstream, especially after the Supreme …

Sex, Apps And VPN: Pakistan Is Curbing Internet Freedom, But Young People Are Fighting Back
4 years, 3 months ago

Sex, Apps And VPN: Pakistan Is Curbing Internet Freedom, But Young People Are Fighting Back

Huff Post  

In a country where women, particularly from less privileged backgrounds, find it difficult to meet and interact with men freely, apps such as Tinder offered a way out, even if the aim was merely friendship SAMIA SINGH Karachi, PAKISTAN — On 1 September, Pakistan’s telecom regulator announced it was blocking access to five apps, including dating apps Tinder and Grindr. …

Extra-marital app sees a surge in users amid COVID-19 lockdown in India
4 years, 7 months ago

Extra-marital app sees a surge in users amid COVID-19 lockdown in India

India TV News  

Extra-marital dating app Gleeden on Monday said it has crossed 10 lakh users in India in COVID-19 times. The app has been seeing a steady increase in traffic in the past two months and during March and April, it recorded over 166 per cent new subscriptions compared to January and February this year. The survey, conducted from March 28-May 5 …

Not always a date
4 years, 10 months ago

Not always a date

Deccan Chronicle  

With an increase in the use of the internet, the mores of swipe-right or -left culture is acing, as per statistics. Sexual and otherwise Interestingly, of the 46 per cent, while 82 per cent claims to use dating apps not to find a partner but to seek friendship and companionship, 59 per cent users believe the people they meet are …

40% people comfortable with sharing personal details on dating apps
4 years, 10 months ago

40% people comfortable with sharing personal details on dating apps

The Hindu  

Forty per cent people said they were comfortable with sharing personal details on dating apps without even meeting the person, revealed a new survey on Friday. According to NortonLifeLock Inc.’s ‘Digital Wellness’ report, a survey of over 1,500 city-based Indian adults revealed the increased popularity of online dating apps across user segments and how the affordability of data has made …

The Queer Take: Dating apps promised a world of possibilities, but may have caged us further instead
5 years, 3 months ago

The Queer Take: Dating apps promised a world of possibilities, but may have caged us further instead

Firstpost  

The Queer Take is a fortnightly column by poet-writer Joshua Muyiwa. *** In all these years, I’ve never found much traction, trade or titillation on dating apps. Before these dating apps, I knew that being femme wasn’t popular, it didn’t get you all the boys — but some of them stayed on. On my few forays onto these dating apps, …

Getting app happy!
5 years, 5 months ago

Getting app happy!

Deccan Chronicle  

A recent study found that the user percentage of mobile dating apps in India is growing even while it has flattened out globally. We bonded so well that we have even attended each other’s family events!” Keshav Santosh, an employee in a start-up, explains how these apps can help find friendships, “Sometimes our circle of friends may not bring us …

1 in 3 LGBTQ Indians finding love through dating apps: Survey
5 years, 6 months ago

1 in 3 LGBTQ Indians finding love through dating apps: Survey

Hindustan Times  

With securing equal rights and acquiring social acceptance being the biggest issue for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community in India, one third of them are meeting people for dating or friendship digitally, either through dating apps or through community specific dating apps, says a new survey. 1 in 3 LGBTQ Indians finding love through dating apps: Survey …

Six millennial women get together and discuss love in the time of the dating app revolution. Watch video
5 years, 10 months ago

Six millennial women get together and discuss love in the time of the dating app revolution. Watch video

Hindustan Times  

Is loving someone and being in love the same thing? Love in the time of the dating app revolution. We met six great women ahead of International Women’s Day 2019 to know their dating patterns; if they use apps to find love; if they’ve found someone whom they’ve spent quality time with; and how do they ensure their safety when …

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