One of the major benefits of online dating is that it’s actually quite empowering
When other dating apps entered the market, these newcomers figured they couldn’t compete with the shopping mall, so they instead decided to build boutique stores. There was the app for all the farmers. The app for the left-handers. Then the app for the left-handed farmers. The apps became increasingly niche to the point that a big player like Hinge realised that some people like to search based on type and allowed you to opt in to a silo for education, a silo for ethnicity, a silo for age, and so on. However, I believe that we’re now reaching a point where interrelationships – interracial, interreligious, international – will be the standard and not the exception. On Tinder, 61 per cent of users have dated someone of a different ethnicity and 80 per cent are open to marrying someone of a different ethnicity, while 70 per cent are open to someone of a different religion. …