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Ah, the world of online dating. Let’s pause and take a deep breath.
Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, Badoo … it’s an endless list of options!
If you ask your Pappou if he knows what “online dating” is, he will probably laugh at your face.
The stories about her foray into the dating world would probably be more along the lines of: “I saw your yiayia do the laundry in the spring and she lifted her skirt and me, what beautiful ankles! I knew at the time that I was going to marry her! ”
But ask any young man today and he will tell you that he has had some experience with online dating.
Finding an appointment online seems to be as common as finding employment online and something similar but apparently more complex than hiring a new employee.
It ranks the endless candidates, when it finally reaches a small group of “suitable candidates.” Then you need to verify that they are actually a real human being and not a fisherman!
Therefore, the period of endless text messages arrives, asking for “proof” if they are real. You know questions like “What is your urge?”, “Can we face each other?” and trying to discern if they look the same as their images.
And only then, after completing all the checks and balances, does the … roll … the crescendo. Go on a real first physical date.
You know the type of place where they pick you up, they give you a bouquet of flowers, wine and dinners overlooking the water, they open the doors for you, hoping that the night ends with a kiss on the cheek and the anticipated but corny line, “I’d like to see you again”.
It is in this first date of “story-telling” and “important first impression” that people have been cashing in with pleasure; Ready to meet the love of their lives.
Much is discovered on the first date. Is there attraction there? We’re compatible? Is it as tall as your photos? (a classic with online dating, as many men often exaggerate their height in dating profiles).
Everything humanly possible to discern when there is no pandemic and you can move freely!
Except that now all restaurants are closed and you cannot legally socialize or travel with anyone who is not from the same home!
Cupid really has his job done for him right now.
Over the long weekend of Easter, a desperate romantic in Queensland, Australia was fined $ 1,334 for driving to a dinner date to meet a woman he had met on Tinder for dinner. The hapless romantic was driving 70 kilometers (yes, he read correctly, 70 kilometers, clearly love knows no limits in this case) to meet his Tinder date when he was stopped by the police and issued a violation notice.
As the Queensland Police Department put it: “The dinner date was costly, as the man prepared himself not only for take-out food, but also for a fine.”
Enough to discourage someone from hanging out.
These days instead of ‘Netflix‘ n ’Chill’! it is more realistic, “Quarantine” n “Chill” – a line that previously would result in immediate blocking and deletion. However, during Covid-19, you literally can’t do much else!
Finding “true love” during this time of confinement seems practically impossible.
Singles in 2020 who have essentially earned the nickname ‘digital natives’ now find themselves unable to exercise the freedom to slide left or right with the happy result of being able to schedule a romantic dinner, a casual date to grab coffee or even a workout in the gym!
So how are dating apps working in the middle of the crash?
To survive Covid-19, dating apps seem to be adding more features to entice those trapped at home to interact more from the safety of their homes.
Bumble, for example, introduced a “video call feature” in the app, noting that usage of this feature increased to 93% between March 13-27. The average call lasted almost 30 minutes.
Without the ability to have a real physical date, many believe that they will never be able to meet someone.
If this is the case, maybe, just maybe, this pandemic will allow singles who want to find love a little break to rediscover themselves, discover what they really want in life and in a couple, and when all this is over, a renewed approach to finding a partner.
Hopefully COVID-19 could even bring to light the benefits of old-fashioned romance and the exciting ways people used to run into a partner in the pre-dating era of online dating.
