Mumbai: Social distancing has not meant disconnecting for Tinder members; with a sharp rise in swipe volume and conversation length** members have found a way to stay connected. A quick poll on our Instagram revealed much about how our members are forming, sustaining and creatively hacking digital connections.
When it comes to flirty messages, it’s texting FTW with 72% preferring to text over sending voice notes. What’s cookin’? Apparently not much! While dinner dates are still hot favourites, Gen-Z prefers to send food over to their date before an online date rather than have a virtual cook-off. 77% said they would rather stay in their PJs on video dates (amen) and let’s just agree that texting is timeless.
Here are the Quaratinder poll results:
- Dinner dates now mean…
Cooking together on video: 30% | Sending each other food: 70%
- Flirting is easier through…
Texts: 72% | Voice notes: 28%
- On video dates I get ready by…
NOT wearing pants: 77% | I even use perfume: 23%
- For IRL dates my dress code is…
Match mask with outfit: 34% | Any mask -shrug emoji: 66%
- When we meet my match gets a…
Handshake: 39% | Elbow touch: 61%
- Kissing them after the date…
I’d still do it: 70% | I’m not ready yet: 30%
**In over six months of social distancing, engagement and length of conversation has been high. At its peak, swipe volume among members in India was up 32% and the conversations were longer with more messages being sent. May 3rd was the peak of this chattiness: on that day Tinder members sent an average of 60% more messages vs. the start of lockdowns in early March.
