NY POST - Young adults are increasingly turning to Facebook Dating as burnout with mainstream dating apps grows. Daily conversations among users aged 18-29 on Facebook Dating have risen by 24% over the past year, according to Axios. Over half of users, including 55% of women and 56% of men, return monthly. Women experience higher success rates, with 72% of their likes leading to matches compared to 11% for men. The platform also attracts users seeking long-term relationships, with 38% of young adults in the U.S. and Canada aiming for serious connections. Facebook Dating's free features and unique tools, like mutual friend visibility, make it a compelling alternative in the dating app market.
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Gen Z and Millennials Shift to Facebook Dating Amid App Fatigue
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The League Bets People Will Pay Big to Mingle in Real Life
NEW YORK POST - The League, an exclusive dating app known for vetting its members, is expanding beyond the digital space by hosting upscale in-person events in New York, such as in the Hamptons and at the US Open. These events are part of a new hybrid model combining online dating with real-life interactions to offer a more curated experience.
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Gen Z Is Ditching Dating Apps for Old-fashioned Matchmaking
NEW YORK POST - Matchmaking services are seeing a surge of Gen Z singles signing up for their events after ditching dating apps. "Matchmaking has never been more popular," said Adam Cohen-Aslatei, director of Tawkify matchmaking service. He said that "business has never been stronger" in their 12 years of matchmaking and the company had the busiest January they'd ever had this year. Three Day Rule, another matchmaking company, said that it's had nearly 50 clients who are 27 or younger in the past year - around five times its usual annual roster of the same demographic. A study from Forbes Health found that 78% of respondents reported feeling fatigued by dating apps, especially those who've likely spent most of their dating life online. Gen Z (79%) and Millennials (80%) had the highest percentage of those reporting feelings of fatigue.
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Scott Valdez Turned Swiping Into a Career
NEW YORK POST - Matchmaking company Vida Select offers a service where employees, like Andrew Boese, swipe on dating apps on behalf of clients, handling all aspects of online dating for a fee. Boese, who has worked as a ghostwriter for the company for a decade, adopts various personas to match clients' preferences. Vida Select claims that typical dating app users spend ~12 hours a week on platforms, suggesting their service as a time-saving alternative. The company, founded in 2009 by Scott Valdez, who met his wife through the platform, charges clients upwards of $2,595 per month for their services.
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Gen Z Prefer Digital First Dates
NEW YORK POST - A Wingman survey of 500 people aged 18 to 27 found that 65% of Gen Z prefer digital first dates, mainly for efficiency and cost-saving reasons. The trend, popularized during the pandemic, allows for quick compatibility checks and multiple dates without the expenses of dining out or transportation. However, it risks missing out on deeper, in-person connections.
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Study: Couples Who Meet Online Are Less Happy in Marriages
NEW YORK POST - "Online daters reported lower quality marriages than those who were introduced to their spouse offline," read the September 2023 analysis conducted by researchers at Arizona State University. For the findings, examiners surveyed 923 married adults in the U.S. 18+. Approximately half of the study contributors had met their significant other on a dating site, while the remaining subjects met their spouses through friends, family, at work or in a nightclub. "Participants who met online reported lower satisfaction and stability due, in part, to societal marginalization of their relationships," wrote the authors, "which was associated with reductions in network approval relative to those who met offline."
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Bumble Survey: Gen Z Prefers Active First Dates Over Bar Scenes
NEW YORK POST - Younger singles are increasingly choosing to go on active first dates, such as exercising, attending a fitness class or going for a bike ride, instead of going out for drinks. A survey by Bumble found that 46% of Gen Z and millennial singles in the US have gone on an active first date. This trend dovetails with younger people drinking less alcohol, with a report revealing that they consume significantly less booze than older generations did when they were young. Hinge found that 30% of its users prefer sober dates.
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20% of Singles Run a Background Check on Their Dates
NEW YORK POST - Around one in five people run background checks on their online dates before meeting them, a new survey says. 38% of respondents say they "stalk" their first dates online instead. The survey was conducted by the Thriving Center of Psychology. 35% of the survey's participants revealed they do not feel safe when using dating apps, despite 67% claiming to have used them at one point. However, of those who have used platforms like Hinge, Bumble and Tinder, 69% despise the apps.
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New 'Pig Butcher' Scam Has Experts Worried
NEWS.COM.AU - A new scam is starting to appear. The aptly-named "pig butchery" scam has sparked a warning from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and sees predators develop personal, even romantic, relationships with their victims to later trick them to invest in crypto. The scammers create a fake Crypto website and make it look like victims are earning a ton of money by investing into this website. Losses of over $200K were not uncommon as a result.
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Dating App That Lets Singles Go on Double Dates Has Waitlist of 9k
NEW YORK POST - Fourplay, a new dating app created by two New York City singles, allows friends to create joint profiles for double dates - and it has a 9K-person waitlist. The app's buddy system requires unanimity among the four people who share two profiles in order to proceed to a group chat, where the users brainstorm over a time and a place to meet for their double date.
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Pure, the Dating App 'Where Anything Goes'
NEW YORK POST - Pure started up in Portugal and has spread throughout Europe. Launched in 2013, the app has only just started marketing the app in the US as a site for "shameless dating," an online ad board where users can explicitly say what they're looking for right now. The brainchild of Ukrainian entrepreneurs Roman Sidorenko and Alexander Kukhtenko, the app currently boasts a half-million active, international users, mostly in cities like London, Paris, Berlin and Moscow. In the New York City area, Pure has 20K prospective daters. In April 2020, Olga Petrunina, who previously founded several IT companies in the travel and crypto industries, became the CEO of Pure. According to the company, "As a woman, Olga's main goal is to improve the female experience with online dating." The site is mostly a go-to for heterosexuals searching for casual sex.
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Match to Sidestep Apple and Google Pay With Imminent Updates to Korean Apps
NEW YORK POST - Apple and Google are about to face their first major test under a law targeting their app-store fees - and the result could be a battle in South Korea with Match Group. Match Group is angling to capitalize on a recently passed South Korean law that targets Apple and Google's fees, which can amount to ~30% of an app's revenue. The stakes are high for Match, which expects to fork ~$500M in such fees globally this year alone, representing ~20% of the company's global revenue. Match bought Seoul-based dating app Hyperconnect in June for $1.73B. Now, Match plans to submit updates to its apps before the end of October allowing South Korean customers to sidestep Apple and Google's payments systems. Match CFO Gary Swidler said the company was considering offering alternative payments systems to California customers at some point in the future.
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Money Laundering Crew Busted for Role in Multimillion Dollar Dating Scam
NY POST - June 2 - Six people have been busted for their alleged role in an elaborate, multi-million-dollar dating site scam - after they helped launder $3.5M fleeced from vulnerable, lovesick targets online. The crew allegedly put the money, swindled from users of dating sites, into shell accounts - including $1M from a single victim.
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New Dating Site for Christians Slams Feminists
NY POST - May 5 - As the brand suggests, Dominion Dating caters to religious singles who seek to fulfill marriage traditions as defined by the Old Testament. Part of the membership agreement entails a pledge to commit to "male headship" of the family, church and government, "believing that God has endowed men with real, limited authority to govern well for the good of mankind," its website reads, as well as a vow for women to assume their "dominion in the home as homemaker and helpmate, in glad submission to a husband." Currently, the site is urging visitors to "back this project" with donations of $15 to $500, offering various membership packages.
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Coffee Meets Bagel Now Lets Singles Declare Vaccination Status
NEW YORK POST - Mar 12 - Coffee Meets Bagel is adding a person's COVID-19 vaccine status to their profiles. This new feature comes as some 19% of the US population has received at least one dose. On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines for those who have been fully vaccinated. People who have been vaccinated can gather indoors - and without masks - with others who have done the same.
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