The amount of dating apps that are now available boggles the mind. Grindr, Tinder, Blender, Tingle, BeNaughty and of course us. Online dating is huge and has grown exponentially over the past five years. More and more people are meeting each other online. Society states that women are choosey and are always looking for ‘The One’. The rise in women using dating apps seems to disprove that stereotype quite firmly. Here at F-Buddy we have seen a rise in the number of women signing up to the site. In 2013 the number of Australian women signing up to our site increased by a third. So much for the stereotype of only men being obsessed with sex.
What has changed?
The way we choose to meet partners either for romance, sex or something more has changed. However it is the method not the form that has changed. Let me clarify as that sounds too wordy even for me. Traditionally men and women met in a bar or through friends. That still happens. However the arrival of the internet opened up the number of different ways to meet people you might not normally meet. Online dating got a lot of flak when it first went mainstream with celebrities and journalists deriding it as a cowardly way to meet new people. They couldn’t have been more wrong. Online dating is braver then traditional dating. For a start you don’t even meet the person you chat to straight away like you would in a bar. The courage to introduce yourself to a complete stranger is just the same. The only difference is that you can find out more information before deciding whether or not to continue the conversation in person. In a bar or a club you might have to go on 2 or 3 dates before you discover the bloke or girl you’re dating is a loser or a winner. Online dating simply speeds the process up. It also explains why people are often having sex more often on a first date.
More dating = more sex in many cases
There is a criticism to online dating being too distant and false but the opposite is true. Women use it more and more because it gives them more power. Whereas in a bar you might not know who’s single and who’s not, online you know pretty much right away. Yes there will always be liars and cheats, but you get that in bars and clubs just as much, if not more than online. It takes more effort to lie online than off.
And because people are getting to know one another faster, sex follows sooner rather than later. Is that always a bad thing?
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