Cupid Versus Covid: NOT LOVELORN DURING LOCKDOWN
Oct 01, 2020
4 minutes
BY CHANEL RETIEF
SLIDE OR SWIPE. THAT’S WHAT IT takes to find a date online. And in these Covid-infected times, it seems, the love bug is also in the air.
Popular dating app Tinder reported that “quarantine became the world’s largest icebreaker”, with 52% more messages being sent between users since early March.
“The combination of being stuck at home and the fact that we were all going through the same thing at the same time led folks on Tinder to get chattier than ever,” Tinder said in a press statement.
There are other platforms that echoed this reality through lockdown.
is an online dating site primarily used in Botswana,
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