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Monday, November 4, 2024
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Topic: Online Dating

Less ghosting, breadcrumbing, catfishing: Bumble survey says Covid has made online dating better

At least 48% people on Bumble survey say there is increased attention to a prospect's personality rather than looks. The sample size was 2,000 single Indians. It was conducted in June 2021. 

Locked in & masked amid Covid, Indian Gen X, millennials are preferring online dating: Survey

Survey by Seeking.com sought to understand dating preferences among Generation X and millennials and questions spanned topics like intimacy, first dates, marriage and children. 

How Bumble, dating app Priyanka Chopra invested in, made its CEO a self-made woman billionaire

Bumble debuted its IPO Thursday at $43. It soared over 70% on trading in New York, valuing CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd’s stake at over $1.5 billion.

Someone in Imran Khan government is clearly angry with left-swipes on Tinder

Pakistan banned 5 dating apps: Tinder, Tagged, Skout, Grindr and SayHi for being ‘immoral’. But can it stop men sending ‘hello fraandship’ texts on LinkedIn?

Tired of virtual intimacy, young people are now turning to ‘date drives’

Without restaurants and bars to go to, young people seeking intimacy have turned to their cars — the latest 'it' place to meet a potential love interest.

Let’s talk first— Coronavirus is bringing in unheard of changes on Tinder and Hinge

A virus has slowed down the planet. And on online dating sites, people are filling time by seeking conversations with people who they earlier only swiped on.

How to date online in the age of coronavirus

The novel coronavirus that causes the malady has infected more than 200,000 people around the world and ushered in a fraught new era of online dating.

Dating sites using AI to create fake people for ads is a problem

Companies use fake people in their ads to make their dating pools look more diverse. It might improve the sites’ diversity in the long run, but it will also likely stoke user distrust.

Why RSS is reminding BJP of its contributions to the party’s election victory

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Does watching porn make us better lovers or shrink our brain?

Pornography viewership has sky-rocketed and is slowly distorting our experiences of intimacy without us even knowing it.

On Camera

Tamil Nadu has the largest Iron-Age urn burial site. We must look beyond our Harappa frenzy

Nirmala Sitharaman laid the foundation of a new site museum in 2021. It felt like a departure from the government's Harappan-centric focus. But no progress has been made since.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Indian firms sanctioned by US didn’t violate laws, says MEA. Hyderabad firm that supplied to Army on list

Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.