Online Dating In China's Male-Dominant Population

YIBADA - Feb 20 - There are ~200M single adults in China currently. As online dating was proven popular in the country, women often said they feel harassed due to user gender imbalance. A dating app are launching new features to protect women. Tantan, often referred to Chinese Tinder, placed a security feature wherein users only matched after manually verifying both of their profile pictures and personal information to prove authenticity. They also placed an automatic notification to the female user if a male user either sends any suspicious content or makes overt sexual references to her. If the female confirmed the notification, the male's account is deleted. The abuse reporting rate on Tantan is now at 1%.