Internet Dating

INTERNET DATING 91 MILLION PEOPLE WORLDWIDE CURRENTLY USE A LOCATION-BASED DATING APP SUCH AS TINDER AND MOMO, WHICH IS POPULAR IN CHINA. 62% 38% + 71% OF THE PEOPLE USING LOCATION-BASED DATING APPS ARE YOUNGER THAN 35.' The average Tinder user spends 77 minutes a day on the app (by comparison, Instagram users spend only 21 minutes a day on that app).? 77 MIN Half (54%) of online daters report that someone else's profile contained significant misrepresentations. 5% of the people in the U.S. who are currently married or in a long-term relationship met their significant other somewhere online. Among those who have been with their partners for ten years or less, 11% met online. SOURCES 1. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/17/mobile-dating-apps-tinder-two- thirds-men (citing a study by GlobalWeblndex) 2. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/31/77-minutes-tinder_n_6082468.html http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/10/21/online-dating-relationships/ 3.