How Instagram became the hottest new dating app

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. I often recommend my single friends start following the hashtags of the things they are interested in to find a partner who has similar interests Barry, 34, who found love on Instagram Finally, there’s Mandy Moore, whose relationship with Taylor Goldsmith, the frontman of the folk rock band Dawes, began after she posted a photograph of one of their albums on Instagram. “For me it was the genuine, uncommercialised passion of my wife that really got me interested.” Barry’s story highlights one of the key appeals of using Instagram to find love: it offers a more rounded sense of a person than a dating app profile ever could. open image in gallery More couples are turning to Instagram over dating apps to find love online “I think with Instagram you get a chance to see more of who a person is rather than a dating app with just a bio and a couple of pictures,” says Deunta, 35, who met his girlfriend on Instagram. “You don’t know what types of people you’ll encounter or how quickly the conversation will steer into something purely sexual.” The difference with Instagram is that dating is not the intention.