Tinder has released their end-of-year report – “Tinder Year In Swipe”. Much like Spotify Wrapped, there are some topical items, a few surprising trends and quite a lot of Olivia Rodrigo. Why would you mention an album about a breakup on a dating site is beyond me, so let’s look at the breakdown. Emojis Firstly,
“Dating with Intention” by Badoo immediately confuses me. I seem to have developed two different points of view, simultaneously. It’s either a really good idea, where all parties in the relationship know exactly what the other is hoping to get from it – oral sex; a two week fling; three children, a dog and a
It’s funny to think of dating trends. Surely love is ageless and cavewomen got butterflies in their tummies when their cave partners came back and gave them a particularly nice stone. Love is universal, unending, arguably what makes us human. Thousands of years have passed but people still get butterflies in their tummies and give
There’s a very specific experience that’s almost universal within a particular demographic. Women who are now aged between 25-35 will recall going to sleepovers as teenagers, watching a Hannah Montana film, prank-calling their crushes, and going on sites like Omegal to make new friends, only to be greeted with a throbbing penis. Although the reactions
I think I can speak for most people when I say that complicated legal cases are, well, usually a bit much for me. I couldn’t define the word ‘antitrust’ (although it sounds like something straight out of 1984) and I’m confused by the idea that Apple doesn’t have a monopoly on its own app store.
I was very excited when, in 2006, Time Magazine made me person of the year. Technically, they made everyone person of the year, but I believe that other people having accomplished the same thing as you should not detract from your individual achievements. Much later (although the exact date is being debated by experts, we
You’ve got to love a nineties throwback. Listen to the Spice Girls, watch an episode of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, go speed dating? Well, sometimes good things come in threes, and sometimes it’s more of a mixed bag. The latest ‘retro trend’ (which seems oxymoronic) is speed dating. What is speed dating For
It’s very easy to imagine that your grandparents have always been grandparents. That they simply began as gentle, elderly and unable to properly work their new phones. Sure, you might hear stories about their lives before their hair got grey(or fell out), but it’s difficult to imagine them dating, gossiping and having sexy shenanigans similar
Everyone has heard of the dating app mainstays such as Bumble, Tinder, Grindr, eHarmony, and OkCupid. Those are traditional dating apps for the most part, and despite their unique spins on the traditional dating theme, they don’t stand out as unique experiences. However, we’ve finally gotten a fresh new spin on the traditional formula: Music-based
In the US alone there were nearly eight million users on Tinder and over five million users on Bumble in 2019. A different and pricier online dating option, Luxy, clocks in at a paltry two million users, signed up and looking for love, sex, validation, or… whatever. Maybe dinner? Although, comparatively, that’s not a huge
