It’s the end of the year, which means everyone is interested in wrap-up reports from every service they’ve ever used.
Your Spotify year in review is the perfect example of this. Sure, it’s kind of basic… but also, do you want to know who my top artist of the year was?
Probably not. Anyway, let’s move on.
Cosmopolitan magazine has compiled a bunch of stats from polls they took from readers, along with info from other sources, and they created a super-list of dating data (say that three times, fast) for 2019.
And some of the findings were shocking. To me, at least.
The prime example? Apparently, adding your Uber rating to your dating profile drives potential dates to respond to you 25 per cent faster. Meaning that no, it’s not generally seen as kind of weird to brag about being a polite car passenger. Quite the opposite, in fact.
The mag also shared that according to dating service Zoosk, having a photo that features a hamster increases the number of messages you’ll receive by 351 per cent. THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-ONE. Am I missing something?
In what world is a hamster better than a puppy?
Taking a peek at Zoosk for myself, I found that in 2019, Sunday has generally been the best day to get on the apps. Your likes (or swipes or whatever you want to call them) can jump up by 15 per cent, and messages by 17 per cent.
The team behind the dating service went on to share that the first Sunday of January is the most popular day of the year for app activity.
In more encouraging news, Zoosk also shared that being a nerd is a big win on dating apps.
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Reportedly, if you use the word ‘dork’ in your profile, you can get 74 per cent more messages. Using the word ‘nerd’ should boost chat by 7 per cent. But steer clear of the term ‘geek’; that one will decrease messages by 7 per cent.
All in all, what this has taught me that in 2019 people continued to be as confusing as ever.
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