I’ve had it with dating apps – I’m determined to find love at Parkrun, instead
2 years, 3 months ago

I’ve had it with dating apps – I’m determined to find love at Parkrun, instead

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As Covid restrictions slowly come to an end, we can finally start seeing people’s faces without masks in person again. I’m not someone who reads much, but it’s something new to try where I’ll meet new people. It’s for Asians who want to go out for walks and meet other single people. To keep up to speed with all the latest opinions and comment sign up to our free weekly Voices Dispatches newsletter by clicking here I don’t think I’ll be going back to dating apps even if they work for other people.

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Dating apps aren’t just for casual hookups: Study shows they lead to long-lasting, satisfying relationships
1 month, 1 week ago

Dating apps aren’t just for casual hookups: Study shows they lead to long-lasting, satisfying relationships

Hindustan Times  

In today's digital age, more and more people are finding love through dating apps. A recent study published in Social Sciences reveals that romantic relationships that begin through dating apps are not significantly different in quality from those formed in person. Study shows no difference in relationship quality for online and in-person couples Do dating apps affect relationship quality? Participants …

Why dating apps are just no match for a real life meet cute
1 month, 1 week ago

Why dating apps are just no match for a real life meet cute

The Independent  

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What Serial Daters and Matchmakers Alike Think We Should Do About Our Dating Crisis
2 months ago

What Serial Daters and Matchmakers Alike Think We Should Do About Our Dating Crisis

Slate  

The singles of today’s dating horticulture are not happy. or their swell of data to more mindfully match users—and, simultaneously, if people lean less on tech and do more internal work to become healthier daters—we could cultivate a more curative dating environment where people are more tactfully matched with “the one.” Most daters and coaches say they want a more …

How running clubs replaced dating apps
4 months ago

How running clubs replaced dating apps

The Independent  

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2 out of 3 users of dating/matrimony apps have never had an in-person meeting
4 months ago

2 out of 3 users of dating/matrimony apps have never had an in-person meeting

Deccan Chronicle  

Juleo, a Trusted Exclusive Singles Club, in partnership with YouGov, a global public opinion company, has surveyed over 1,000 singles from the top 8 Indian cities to capture the ongoing trends in Indian matchmaking. The report reveals stunning insights on issues like singles matching with profiles online but not meeting their prospects in person, concerns around safety and the genuineness …

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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Dating Apps Are Dehumanizing. Let’s Try Something New
5 months, 1 week ago

Dating Apps Are Dehumanizing. Let’s Try Something New

Wired  

If the idea of going on a date makes you anxious, and all you’d really rather do with your evening is stay home and play video games, well, have we got the app for you. Date Like Goblins, a new dating platform that debuted on Kickstarter this week and will launch later this year, invites you to go on dates …

Ever feel exhausted by swiping through dating apps? You might be experiencing dating app burnout
6 months, 1 week ago

Ever feel exhausted by swiping through dating apps? You might be experiencing dating app burnout

Hindustan Times  

While plenty of happy couples can trace their meet-cute moment to an online dating app, many others find the never-ending process of likes, swipes, taps and awkward DMs that go nowhere to be exhausting — leading to a phenomenon known as “dating app burnout.” A person uses the dating app Bumble in this image. Kathryn Coduto, an assistant professor of …

What does the post-pandemic dating world look like for singles?
9 months, 1 week ago

What does the post-pandemic dating world look like for singles?

Live Mint  

It’s been exactly four years since the covid-19 pandemic gripped the entire globe. I can easily say that 100% of my clients started looking within, introspecting on what they really wanted from a relationship, and how they could work on themselves to be ready for it. Yet, in 2022 as the world started trudging towards normalcy, most of my single …

Why is it so hard to get a date using a dating app these days?
11 months, 1 week ago

Why is it so hard to get a date using a dating app these days?

The Independent  

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Why dating apps are just no match for a real life meet cute
1 year, 1 month ago

Why dating apps are just no match for a real life meet cute

The Independent  

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My Dating App Method May Be Unorthodox, but Good Lord Does It Work
1 year, 8 months ago

My Dating App Method May Be Unorthodox, but Good Lord Does It Work

Slate  

It might have been the tiny middle-aged man I matched with on Hinge who tried to lure me into his very short arms by telling me a well-rehearsed, technically touching story about the cancer charity he’d set up for his dead wife. A flurry of recent reports and surveys suggest that many people associate dread and dismay with these services: …

Online dating is great—for investors. For customers, it’s complicated
2 years, 5 months ago

Online dating is great—for investors. For customers, it’s complicated

Live Mint  

Dating used to be about the end result. That might not be great for the longevity of consumers’ relationships, but it should continue to benefit investors’ love affair with publicly traded companies like Match Group and Bumble. If Netflix’s dating show “Love is Blind" taught us anything when it filmed potential partners chatting for hours without seeing each other, it …

Bored of dating apps? Try this if you want to meet the love of your life
2 years, 6 months ago

Bored of dating apps? Try this if you want to meet the love of your life

The Independent  

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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, 1 month 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 …

Think you won't find love on a dating app? Meet the couples who did
3 years, 4 months ago

Think you won't find love on a dating app? Meet the couples who did

ABC  

If you've ever tried online dating, you'll know how demoralising it can be. 'In quarantine, I had a lot of spare time on dating apps' James and Tom — Enmore, NSW James was in hotel quarantine when he matched with Tom on a dating app. James I had got back from New Zealand just as COVID hit and was one …

You’re not a fish and other cardinal truths of online dating
3 years, 4 months ago

You’re not a fish and other cardinal truths of online dating

Live Mint  

When it comes to finding the one that fits your definition of ‘love’, the checklist can be quite long while the suitors are quite few. The grass is greener where you water it We hear from thousands of people—“Oh, it’s so hard, I never find anyone!” And then when asked how much time and effort they put into their profiles, …

The pandemic changed dating norms. Are apps taking note?
3 years, 5 months ago

The pandemic changed dating norms. Are apps taking note?

Live Mint  

Early in the covid-19 pandemic, Jennifer Sherlock went out with a few men she met through dating apps. “So we wouldn’t be safe outside without mask, but we would be safe back at his place maskless?” She decided she needed a way to filter people, so she began arranging video chats before agreeing to meet anybody in person. Sherlock isn’t …

L.A. Affairs: How the pandemic taught me to switch up my dating game
3 years, 6 months ago

L.A. Affairs: How the pandemic taught me to switch up my dating game

LA Times  

Before the pandemic, going out and trying to meet ‘The One’ had almost become a chore. Lifestyle L.A. Affairs: The sheer exhaustion of dating as a single mom Adding an extra adult to the mix feels like I am disturbing all the perfectly balanced, precariously spinning plates of my life. Lifestyle Share your story with L.A. Affairs L.A. Affairs chronicles …

It’s 2021, why are dating app algorithms still so bad?
3 years, 6 months ago

It’s 2021, why are dating app algorithms still so bad?

Wired  

It is a truth universally acknowledged that lockdown was a boom time for dating apps. And now that the world is finally opening up again, single people are stampeding towards them in even greater numbers – Hinge has reported a 63 per cent spike in downloads since 2019 and a tripling of revenue in 2020, while May 2021 alone saw …

Dating in the times of Covid-19: Tips to keep your virtual romance alive
4 years, 5 months ago

Dating in the times of Covid-19: Tips to keep your virtual romance alive

Hindustan Times  

Humans have an innate need to communicate and connect, and the coronavirus pandemic has really been a kick in the gut of our social lives. Even the loners among us are now beginning to crave contact, missing people we hate is something almost everyone is experiencing, and those unfortunate ones of us who are single and living alone since the …

Locked in love
4 years, 7 months ago

Locked in love

India Today  

The coronavirus and social distancing have put a stop to all physical interactions. “Since virtual dating is the safest option right now, people are spending more time on dating apps and, in the process, re-discovering old-fashioned love and courtship,” says Solène Paillet, marketing director of Gleeden, an extra-marital dating platform where the active age group is between 34 and 49. …

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 …

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, …

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