These days, online dating makes it easier than ever to find your "lid." While dominated by big name, mass audience sites, like and e Harmony, a growing number of niche sites are finding success targeting singles looking for something very specific.Of course there are sites aimed at specific religious or ethnic groups, but there are also those who aim to match couples with very specific interests.
Revealer will let you hear a person's voice and only show photos if you're both interested.
The darling dating app du jour is Tinder, helped by its simple interface, a host of celebrity users and a popularity boost from Sochi Olympic athletes who used it to hook up during the Winter Games.
market to be worth some $2.1 billion, of which around a third is commanded by Match, the owner of Match.com, OK Cupid, Meetic, People Media and, last but by no means least, Tinder.
Whitney Wolfe, the co-founder of Tinder who left after filing a sexual harassment case, has now launched Bumble, which gives women – and only women – the power to choose potential suitors.
Women, too, have had plenty to be pleased about in the industry recently.
There are now apps catering to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer and trans communities, as well as those marketed to hookups, relationships and even marriage. Millennials, busy with school, jobs and social lives, say the apps save time and let users filter out the undesirables, based on a few photos, words and Facebook connections. As the near-constant use of smartphones proliferates and as people grow more comfortable with disclosing their location, a new class of mobile dating applications is emerging that spans a range as broad as human desire itself.“Women run the world right now,” Wolfe told the New York Post. There’s no rhyme or reason.” Her, known until this week as Dattch, recently received
There are now apps catering to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer and trans communities, as well as those marketed to hookups, relationships and even marriage. Millennials, busy with school, jobs and social lives, say the apps save time and let users filter out the undesirables, based on a few photos, words and Facebook connections. As the near-constant use of smartphones proliferates and as people grow more comfortable with disclosing their location, a new class of mobile dating applications is emerging that spans a range as broad as human desire itself.“Women run the world right now,” Wolfe told the New York Post. There’s no rhyme or reason.” Her, known until this week as Dattch, recently received $1 million in funding, and focuses on connecting women with other women.“Why can a girl not make a first move with a man, but she can go out and conquer her career? While it’s widely accepted that, despite early reports, Tinder is not worth $5 billion, it does boast a staggering level of user engagement that even Facebook cannot lay claim to. “I’ve dated guys for two months here and there, and for different reasons we’d break up,” Ross said, “maybe because our schedules didn’t align, or it just wasn’t forever.” But like a lot of single New Yorkers, Ross is looking for forever.
||There are now apps catering to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer and trans communities, as well as those marketed to hookups, relationships and even marriage.
Millennials, busy with school, jobs and social lives, say the apps save time and let users filter out the undesirables, based on a few photos, words and Facebook connections.
As the near-constant use of smartphones proliferates and as people grow more comfortable with disclosing their location, a new class of mobile dating applications is emerging that spans a range as broad as human desire itself.
“Women run the world right now,” Wolfe told the New York Post. There’s no rhyme or reason.” Her, known until this week as Dattch, recently received $1 million in funding, and focuses on connecting women with other women.
“Why can a girl not make a first move with a man, but she can go out and conquer her career? While it’s widely accepted that, despite early reports, Tinder is not worth $5 billion, it does boast a staggering level of user engagement that even Facebook cannot lay claim to.
“I’ve dated guys for two months here and there, and for different reasons we’d break up,” Ross said, “maybe because our schedules didn’t align, or it just wasn’t forever.” But like a lot of single New Yorkers, Ross is looking for forever.
||There are now apps catering to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer and trans communities, as well as those marketed to hookups, relationships and even marriage.
Millennials, busy with school, jobs and social lives, say the apps save time and let users filter out the undesirables, based on a few photos, words and Facebook connections.
As the near-constant use of smartphones proliferates and as people grow more comfortable with disclosing their location, a new class of mobile dating applications is emerging that spans a range as broad as human desire itself.
“Women run the world right now,” Wolfe told the New York Post. There’s no rhyme or reason.” Her, known until this week as Dattch, recently received $1 million in funding, and focuses on connecting women with other women.
million in funding, and focuses on connecting women with other women.“Why can a girl not make a first move with a man, but she can go out and conquer her career? While it’s widely accepted that, despite early reports, Tinder is not worth billion, it does boast a staggering level of user engagement that even Facebook cannot lay claim to. “I’ve dated guys for two months here and there, and for different reasons we’d break up,” Ross said, “maybe because our schedules didn’t align, or it just wasn’t forever.” But like a lot of single New Yorkers, Ross is looking for forever.