Tag: Dating Apps

From arranged matches to Tinder hook-ups: How the apps changed dating in India – ABC News

Rohini Ramnathan

Young, single Indians make up the second-biggest market of dating app users globally – and it’s revolutionising how people think of love and marriage.

When Rohini Ramnathan’s husband passed away unexpectedly in 2017, the 37-year-old thought she’d never find love again. 

But two years later, Ramnathan downloaded a dating app on her phone for the first time and started swiping on potential matches.

“My first impression was, ‘Wow, there are so many people and they’re all single’,” she says.

“And then I thought, ‘Wow, there are so many good-looking people’.”

Ramnathan, a radio presenter who lives in Mumbai, says dating apps have helped her to understand and explore “the casualness of dating” in India.

Source: From arranged matches to Tinder hook-ups: How the apps changed dating in India – ABC News

Dating apps like Tinder contributing to rise in STIs, experts say, but not for the reasons you think – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

A close up photo of a billboard saying Tinder, Grindr and STI's are connected.

Key points:

Chlamydia notifications have risen in Australia by 13 per cent since 2014, with three-quarters of these among 15–29-year-olds
Gonorrhoea and syphilis figures have also gone up
Experts say STI rates are increasing not because people are having more sex, but because they are having sex with different networks of people

via Dating apps like Tinder contributing to rise in STIs, experts say, but not for the reasons you think – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)