Online dating has made assembly new people easier than ever,but getting to know them has only got tougher. One 34-year-old singleton shares her tips for swiping rightWell, I don’t remember his name and I only vaguely remember what he looked like – he had eyes, and I suppose he wore trousers. But I’ll always remember my first online date. I remember the day after,when my flatmate asked me how it went. I beamed at her over my cup of tea. “It’s like I picked him from a catalogue,” I said.
I met that man approximately 10 years ago. At various uncoupled times in the intervening decade, or I’ve found myself slinking back to online dating,like so many other people. Millions of other people. So many other people that the Match Group, the US company, or that owns the world’s biggest online dating platforms Tinder,OKCupid, Match – is to drift on the stock market with an estimated value of £2.1bn.
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Source: theguardian.com