Flirt apps and mobile dating are on the rise

Online dating has long been established and has reached the broad masses of society. For many people looking for a partner or for entertaining entertainment, virtual contact searches have been an integral part of everyday life for years. For some it is already old hat and no longer up to date at all.

This trend-savvy group has now moved on to so-called “mobile dating” – flirting and getting to know each other on the go using a mobile phone app.

The advantages for users are obvious - quick installation and profile setup, location-independent availability, rapidly growing membership numbers, easy contact... and increasingly the integration of local services and functions that can take the members' location into account when flirting and using .

For these reasons, the use of flirt apps on smartphones has exploded since the beginning of 2014. The increasingly cheaper and widely available data tariffs from telecommunications providers have also contributed to this rapid growth.

The most popular examples of these mobile flirting applications include Tinder , Lovoo , Happn and OKCupid , all of which are location-based. Depending on the app, you can create a short profile or short profile and immediately get to know people in your immediate area.

Tinder

The principle of Tinder is quite simple: via a connection to the Facebook profile, the application retrieves relevant user data, such as age and gender, but also the number of mutual friends or interests.

Based on this, you will then be suggested potential partners. Anyone who swipes the photo to the left with their finger will reject the offer, while anyone who swipes to the right would like to get to know the other person better.

If an agreement is reached, you can then chat and make plans together. Thanks to the location-based contact suggestions, this app is also often used on vacation - either to quickly find one-night stand

Lovoo

Lovoo is also a social network for mobile phones that allows you to get to know people in the area. One of the central functions is the live radar .

It makes it possible to search for other app users in the user's immediate area and to contact them. The search results are clearly displayed on a GPS radar , which shows the distance and direction to each other.

The basic functions of the app are free, but optimized functions are subject to a fee for users. Unfortunately, user reviews often criticize the existence of many fake profiles.

happn

happn has a slightly different approach that sounds very exciting. With this application the user has the opportunity to get to know people he/she has met, who he/she liked and who he/she would like to see again.

You are, so to speak, freed from the pressure to act directly to the man or woman of your dreams who you may have just accidentally bumped into on the street, in a café or at a party.

As soon as you meet a happn member, their profile will appear directly on your timeline. A great function if the certain moment was just over too quickly or you couldn't jump over your shadow at that moment to go directly on the flirty offensive.

Each profile also conveniently states how often they have met. And if you no longer want to see someone on happn, you can easily delete profiles by clicking on the cross.

OKCupid

OkCupid is also a virtual contact exchange that can also be used via a mobile phone app. The main difference to the platforms already mentioned is that the system uses user-generated questions to calculate the compatibility of members and uses this result as a helpful criterion when looking for a partner.

Such questions could be, for example Do you think women have a duty to shave their legs?” The app then uses the individual answers to calculate how well two users fit together.

The search function basically allows you to find any profile, but by default the hits are sorted according to estimated compatibility. Under the menu item Personality you will then find a graphical representation of all recognized character traits of a profile being viewed in comparison with your own.

OkCupid also offers extensive communication options that go beyond the usual range of functions for ordinary dating sites.

It is striking that this app is used above average by people with non-traditional relationship ideas, especially by people who live in so-called polyamorous relationships , i.e. openly enter into relationships with several partners, and also by bisexual people , some of whom have several partners.

Many questions in the questionnaire also concern boundaries and views regarding the preferred openness or closedness of relationships.

Nothing works without sufficient data volume

This trend is undoubtedly having a significant impact on our dating models and patterns. Without such applications, we would never have the opportunity to have so many appointments, dates and rendezvous in such a short period of time.

After all, the offer is almost endless and the number of members will continue to grow.

However, a prerequisite for unadulterated flirting pleasure and unrestricted use of these applications is sufficient data volume or even a data flat rate so that you don't run out of bytes in the middle of a hot flirt and we end up staring at the most exciting moment.

For an average user, we therefore recommend a monthly data volume of at least 1 GB (better 2 GB), depending on how many other data-intensive applications the user frequently uses.

You can find such a tariff (2 GB LTE including 100 free minutes in all networks and SMS) from 7.99 euros at eteleon under the package name “LTE Mini Plus 2000” .

To avoid constant loading times and disruptions when using dating apps, we also recommend a fast LTE tariff if this network is available to you.

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