Singles Searching for Love On Smartphones is Booming
Patch wants to know, have you used apps or online dating sites to find love? Do you think they work? If you haven’t, would you consider them?
Even though Valentine’s Day is over, the season of love lasts all year round and the number of singles searching for love on their smartphones is booming at 13.7 million in November 2012, double the rate from the previous year, ABC News reported.
Companies like OK Cupid and Tinder both offer smartphone apps to help singles find dates. OK Cupid uses math to help find matches, while Tinder finds out who likes you nearby, according to the companies websites.
While using apps to find love is growing, online dating sites are getting fewer visitors – about 22.9 million visitors used online dating sites in January 2012 compared with 29.3 million in 2011, ABC News reported.
And according to Wall Street Journal, over the past decade only 17 percent of heterosexual couples met online while 41 percent of same-sex couples met online during the same period.
Patch wants to know: Have you used an app or online dating sites to find dates? Do you think they work? If you haven’t, would you consider letting technology help match you with a date?
Patricia
6:20 am on Monday, February 18, 2013
I have used online dating sites. I do not think that they work.
Patricia
6:30 am on Monday, February 18, 2013
Perhaps for some they have worked, but not for me. People are able to create fake profiles and pretend to be someone or something that they are not. I have not bern 'catfished' but once - there was a local man who looked nothing like the picture he posted. The picture was, I believe was a picture of someone other than him. He was a nice guy, but at least, twenty to thirty years older than his picture and profile stated.
My experience has been, if you are looking to simply hook up, these websites are great. I have never seen so many old men, looking to hook up. I was kind of shocked. What's old to me? Someone in my age, forty plus years of age. I would think at this age, we would be past that, but I was wrong. I'm looking for something other than a hookup. in my life. To each his/her own.
Oliver P. McCracken
4:33 pm on Monday, February 18, 2013
Ah, yes, the Season of Love is upon us, and it reminds me of the day when I, too, used an apple to procure my Darling-Dear.
Miss Miltrude Bodelia Spittlewipe was considered a spinster for the time, all of 21 years and still single!
Miss Miltrude was a schoolmarm at an adjoining schoolhouse to the one where I started my principal-ing career, and need I tell you that her spectacles were spotless, her bloomers well-hidden, and her knee-length tresses knotted up tightly in a bun. The picture of Venusian beauty and temperance!
Continuing my tale, lest I lose myself in her chaste and beguiling bewitchery, one morning before the cock crowed, I sneaked a shining and worm-less apple into her classroom and set it upon her desk, carving my initials -- O.P.M. -- into its red flesh with my Bowie knife before I stole away in the pre-dawn haze.
Needless to say, soon we were joined in wedded bliss and continue to be so, all because of "using apples to find love"....
Patricia
6:49 am on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Oliver, are you suggesting that we return to old fashioned values and ways of pursuing love? How dare you suggest such a thing? Who are you? If we follow your advice, we may actually find that person and be happy. Silly man with silly advice. Geez! Lol. I loved it Oliver.