Saying that might give a person the ick. Sending an opening line to get the attention of someone you matched with on a dating app is nerve-wracking. Just be sure not to send one of the messages a recent survey from FindingTheOne.com revealed as the ones most single people roll their eyes at. Whatever you…
Whitney Wolfe Herd returned as Bumble CEO amid big leadership changes at the dating app. Last month, rival company Match Group also replaced its CEO. The new CEOs are highlighting changes for trust and safety. The owners of some of the world’s biggest dating apps — Match Group and Bumble — just went through big…
BALLWIN, Mo. (KMOV/Gray News) – A Missouri man is accused of raping at least five women he met on dating apps, officials said. Yahya Maly, 28, was arrested around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at his apartment in Ballwin, a suburb of St. Louis. The alleged crimes spanned almost two years between March 2023 and earlier this…
Ury coaches her clients on self-awareness. Before setting up a dating profile online, she encourages singles to reflect on their relationship patterns to understand what might be holding them back from finding love. Are you chasing an unrealistic “spark” while overlooking great long-term potential? Are certain dating habits preventing you from forming lasting relationships? Recognizing…
Claire Volkman, 39, tried online dating after her marriage ended. She was traveling for work and went on dates in cities around the world. She met her second husband after a year of dating across multiple apps. A few months after I left my husband, I downloaded multiple dating apps. It felt like foreign territory,…
At 50, Jennie Young started using several dating apps and felt that they were all toxic. The Burned Haystack Dating Method began as an academic project and now has a Facebook group with over 128,000 members. Young, a college professor, has advice for the companies behind dating apps. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite…
Stocks for the parent companies of Tinder and Bumble wavered this week after the companies reported earnings. Tinder cautioned investors it expected another drop in paying users in the fourth quarter. A Forbes Health survey this year reported 78% of Americans felt exhausted by dating apps. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in…
Let me count the ways in which dating apps let you down. The fake profiles, the endless ‘datemin’ of swiping and messaging, the game playing and ghosting, the algorithms designed for driving repeat business rather than finding true love. What started as a genius idea with the birth of the smartphone has shrivelled into a…
Over five years, Daizy Maan thinks she has been on “around 150 to 200 dates”. “I’ve swiped so much on dating apps that I started wondering whether I might get carpal tunnel,” she told the ABC. Explaining the perils of modern dating to her mum, the 30-year-old said dating apps “were just like matchmaking in…
He constantly questioned her whereabouts and even commented on her food choices A disturbing incident of privacy invasion has come to light in Bengaluru, where a woman discovered that her ex-boyfriend, an employee at a food delivery platform, had been using the app to track her location. The shocking revelation was shared on LinkedIn by…