In Honor Of Tinder Turning 10 This Year, A New Study Revealed The Shocking Habits Of American Dating App Users
Did you know that this September, Tinder turns ten years old? Since hitting the marketplace, the dating platform has completely transformed modern romance. But has it been for the worst?
A new study conducted by MyVision has revealed the dating app habits and experiences of Americans across the country.
Unsurprisingly, Tinder was found to be the top-used dating app, followed by Bumble, Hinge, and OkCupid.
And while the apps were created with dating in mind, only sixty-three percent of people use the platforms in hopes of entering a serious relationship.
Fifty-two percent of Americans are instead using the apps for casual relationships, while forty-one percent of people admitted they just swipe out of boredom.
Moreover, more than one in three people have engaged in a one-night stand after matching with someone on the platform. And a lot of the “swiping” is not always genuine.
Forty percent of people have allowed friends to go crazy and swipe for them, while thirty-two percent of Americans have made actual games out of matching people.
Plus, it appears that dating platforms have continued to foster superficiality.
The majority of Americans believe that photos are the most important profile feature, but they also cite “physical appearance” as their largest turnoff.
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Additionally, about fifty percent of people think that the first photo on someone’s profile is “extremely important.” And if that first photo does not rise to fifty-five percent of viewers’ expectations, they will not even look at the rest of your profile.
Still, these uploaded photos have also proven unreliable. A whopping sixty-seven percent of people have encountered others lying about themselves on the platform– with appearance and age being the top two lies.
And more shockingly, nearly a quarter of people have been completely “catfished” by a match.
All of these negatives do not mean that there are no dating app success stories, though. Perhaps surprisingly, due to the platforms’ hook-up culture, forty-three percent of users have entered a relationship with someone from the app at one point or another.
But, most of these partnerships lasted for less than six months, with only eleven percent lasting longer than one year and fifteen percent lasting longer than two years.
So, perhaps the platforms do work for some people– even if they are few and far between. And if you are considering joining Tinder or the like, only you can weigh your personal costs.
Is it worth it to navigate through tons of people with different relationship expectations than you in hopes of finding the “right one?” Is this much different than daring “in real life,” or is the reality just amplified when online?
To read the study’s complete findings, you can visit the link here.
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