ABC LOCAL - Oct 5 - Finding love the smartphone way is a trend that is definitely taking off. SinglesAroundMe says ~20K singles install the app each week. OkCupid reports 1M of its 3M users utilize the GPS feature. And HowAboutWe estimates that 1 in 4 of its online daters are now incorporating location based dating into their search for a soul mate. One of the biggest problems with GPS dating is the immediacy of it. MeetMoi, which sends profiles of people in your general location, says they never share a user's exact location. SinglesAroundMe has privacy options that allow users to turn off their location GPS or to hide their profile.
by Leslie Sykes
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50% of daily logsin on most top tier dating sites now occurs on mobile. idating is an inherently mobile skewed experience now. People don't want to come home in the evening to spend more hours tappity tapping on their keyboards. They want the thrill of a response during the day. Mobile gets even more interesting for mobile dating as it becomes more observational. Once the phone start to observe behaviors and get more feedback, they can help dating sites to better matching.
People tell you everything about themselves if you only observe. But people generally suck at self-description.
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