Online dating apps have transformed the way people look at love: Study

A new study
has found that people who met their partners through dating apps are
often committed for long term relationship goals as these apps makes a new path
for meeting people and encourages socio-educational and geographical mixing.
These apps have transformed the way, people meet.

According to media reports, a study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, provided a detailed information about couples who met through dating apps, drawing on data from a 2018 Swiss survey. The results were published in the journal PLOS ONE.

The study
revealed that people who became couple through dating apps have stronger
cohabitation intentions than those couples who meet in a no-digital
environment. Unlike all other traditional dating sites, these app do not have
long user profiles. It is simply based on rating photos using a swipe review
system.

However, these apps also face a lot of
criticism, including encouraging casual dating minus intimacy and seriousness.
But no scientific facts, supporting this exist till now. 

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According to the study, women who met their partners through dating app strongly wants children compared to those who met their partners offline.
In fact, people who meet through these apps are equally satisfied about the quality
of their relations as others who met offline. 

“The
Internet is profoundly transforming the dynamics of how people meet,”
said Gina Potarca, a researcher at the Institute of Demography and
Socioeconomics in UNIGE’s Faculty of Social Sciences, and holder of an
Ambizione research grant awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation to
study the effects of digital ways of communicating on marriage formation and
sorting.

“It
provides an unprecedented abundance of meeting opportunities, and involves
minimal effort and no third-party intervention,” she added.