Dating Sunday – the first Sunday of a new year – is the biggest day for singles hoping to meet a match online. But before you send that first flirty text, here are a few dating trends you should be aware of.
Is online dating getting outdated? Six popular dating apps, including Tinder, Aisle, Truly Madly and OkCupid, have seen a drop in monthly active users in India
Some of the users, frustrated with their experience on dating apps, are moving toward offline events like singles mixers, and a few of them are organised by dating apps like Tinder and Truly Madly. These events address two major limitations of dating apps: gender ratio and a person s intent. “In India, 90% of active users on dating platforms are men. This is problematic for both genders as men are swiping and not getting enough matches and women are getting too many matches and getting bombarded by creepy messages,” says a founder of an offline.
With free dating apps squarely focused on numbers not users, safety is far from watertight. If you match with an abuser and want to complain, good luck! We tried for the sake of this article, and failed