If you’re keen to find the next Tinder, you might well spend your time scrolling through badly constructed websites and downloading apps that nobody had thought to optimise for Android users. Finally, you might just traipse back to Bumble – you’ve been there before, but at least it actually has users. If this sounds exhausting,
You can go on virtually any corner of the internet and find much written about the stresses that come from online dating. However, for women, these stresses are typically much greater than those experienced by men. Women are much more likely to deal with issues such as internet scams, threats, dating violence, revenge porn, and
If you decided to stand in the street and ask people which social groups they found most annoying, they would probably answer “people who stand in the street and ask questions”. If you managed to convince them to continue the conversation, they might answer “vegans” or “fitness buffs”. Whilst there isn’t, to my knowledge, a
It’s not uncommon for dating app websites to have reviews and love stories from happy clients. What is unusual is for anyone to say that they want to thank the app, because without it they would, quote, “die of loneliness”. What a way to introduce potential new users. But let’s scroll up, read the headline
People celebrate Valentine’s day in many different ways. Perhaps with a romantic dinner with a lover, or by sending roses to a crush, or (according to all romcoms) by getting drunk and hanging out with your cat. The least romantic thing I can think of, however, is downloading a dating app. Allow me to emphasise:
In May last year, I wrote about a new dating app called Qemistry. I believe I used the term ‘gimmick’ only once, but the entire piece was firmly against the app, which seemed to genuinely believe it was heralding the next sexual revolution by replacing photographs on dating sites with short videos. I published the
“Happy Valentines” may be a thing we hear less and less frequently as the next few years pass by. This is because many people are choosing to avoid the holiday altogether. However, this pushback against celebrating Valentine’s Day is not due to unhappiness with love but rather the opposite. Many couples are focusing more on
There are a few things most people do but don’t admit to. A lot of people speed, jaywalk, check their ex’s Instagram, pee in the shower and have picked their nose in public once or twice. Popped an experimental finger up their asshole. Honked their own boob. Wanted to tell their friend that they’ve been
The popular Netflix documentary “The Tinder Swindler” has cast a major light on romance scams recently. However, dating scams are much more frequent than you would think. In fact, research from the US’s Better Business Bureau suggests that as many as one in seven dating profiles are fake. These are used for dating scams which
It’s interesting to consider how our dating habits have changed in the past decade. I would argue that the currently accepted use of online dating, through sites and apps, has led to a sexual revolution that rivals the one in the 1960s, spearheaded by the newly minted contraceptive pill. Then, people could have far more
