"Online dating" under the epidemic 74.0% of single youths surveyed spend more than 1 hour a day on "cloud dating"
85.2% of single youths surveyed felt that “cloud dating” played a major role in dating and dating during the epidemic
At the end of the Spring Festival holiday, many single young people who celebrated the Chinese New Year on the spot said that they wanted to avoid the annual marriage urging drama of their relatives and friends at home.
Due to the impact of the epidemic, less going out, less contact, avoiding crowds, etc. have been the normal life of people in the past year or so.
"Online dating" and "cloud dating" have become a new way for many young people to make friends.
A few days ago, the Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily and wenjuan.com jointly conducted a survey of 2001 18-35 year-old single youths. According to a survey, 62.4% of the single youth surveyed have made friends mainly online in the past year. , Dating apps, short video sites, and dating sites are the three major channels.
85.2% of the single youths interviewed felt that during the epidemic, “Dating in the Cloud” played a major role in making young people’s love and marriage.
74.0% of single youth surveyed spend more than 1 hour on online blind date and friendship every day
Wang Rui (a pseudonym), a single young man born in 1988, is a medical worker and used to like to make friends offline.
Since last year, because of the need for epidemic prevention and control, he has been very busy at work, and he has basically had no chance to go out and play.
"Before the Spring Festival, I posted a post on a big dating official account. I met a girl who was in line with expectations in many ways. I have been keeping in touch recently and getting along pretty well."
Wang Rui said that the two of them now communicate online every day after get off work to understand each other’s preferences, experiences and daily life, and also share work matters with each other. “We have also gone out to play, but after all, in special times, most Communication is still online".
Cheng Hui (pseudonym) is 32 years old this year. After graduating from his doctorate, he took a job in an institution in Beijing. The past year was his "online blind date" year.
Several colleagues in the unit have introduced Cheng Hui about blind dates. In addition, he has added six or seven girls’ WeChat accounts. “When the epidemic is severe, it’s not convenient to go out to meet. We mainly interact with each other online. Many hours".
Online games are a big hobby of Liu Lu (a pseudonym) born in the 1990s.
During the "Cloud Office" in 2020, she met her current boyfriend in a team competitive mobile game, "We added friends after forming a team, thinking about playing games together in the future. Later, we found that we both work in Beijing, interested The hobbies are also similar, and they develop into boy and girl friends when they come and go."
Liu Lu said that chatting while playing games was the main way they interacted at the time. Sometimes they could chat for more than 4 hours a day.
Now I will video for about an hour every day.
In the past year, how did single young people make friends?
62.4% of the single youths interviewed said that they are mainly online, 19.8% are offline, and 17.4% frankly didn't make friends.
Interaction analysis found that the proportion of single youth making online friends in first-tier cities was the highest (69.7%), followed by second-tier cities (61.1%).
Single youths surveyed in third- and fourth-tier cities have the highest proportion of offline dating (25.4%).
The highest proportion of single youths surveyed in towns or counties who did not make friends very much (46.7%).
The survey shows that dating apps (62.3%) are the most common dating channel for single youths interviewed in the past year, followed by short video websites (44.5%) and dating websites (38.2%).
Others include introductions by relatives and friends (37.8%) and online games (29.3%).
74.0% of the single youths surveyed spend more than 1 hour on online dating and friends, 40.6% in 1-2 hours, 27.5% in 2-3 hours, 4.5% in 3-4 hours, 1.4% in 4 More than hours.
85.2% of single youths surveyed felt that "cloud dating" played a major role in dating and making friends during the epidemic
Online acquaintance and "contact" have become the main mode of making friends that many single youths rely on in the past year or two.
In the survey, 85.2% of the single youths interviewed felt that during the epidemic, "cloud dating" played a major role in young people’s marriage and dating.
Qiu Zina (pseudonym) works in a new media company. She feels that the Internet provides a good channel and way for young people to make friends. At the same time, young people in this session are also very good at using the "cloud" environment.
"Affected by the epidemic, offline travel, parties, networking events, and other opportunities for making friends are very limited. It seems that there is no hope of leaving alone, but the function of interpersonal communication is supplemented online. Young people who grow up in the Internet age know well How to use'Cloud Dating'. They have skillfully and fully utilized online channels and resources such as Weibo, WeChat Moments, WeChat Official Account, and Dating App."
29-year-old Zhou Yuanyuan (pseudonym) feels that "Cloud Dating" alleviates the problem of making friends for single young people.
Last year, she signed up for an online dating event on the dating platform.
The organizer first collects the personal data of the participating guests, and then sends the collected data of the opposite sex back together. Everyone will select each other, and finally will provide the contact information of the two parties who have successfully matched each other.
"I feel that this kind of online blind date event is more effective than offline events. Compared with rushing and revolving contacts at the scene, everyone has more time to understand and can more calmly and rationally consider and make choices."
Cheng Hui realized that because of the online blind date, his face became "thicker", "Although I am a boy, I have an introverted personality. I am embarrassed to face a girl and feel cramped. It turned out to be very disgusting with the blind date. I feel a lot better, but the communication with the girls is smoother."
Wang Rui feels that online communication has made his schedule more calm. "There is no need to go out on a date to figure out what to wear and eat for a long time. Falling in love has become less mind-blowing. It is more efficient and saves time and effort."
66.7% of the single youth interviewed said that online dating can greatly ease the resistance to blind dates. 64.1% of the respondents said that there is a certain distance, which is conducive to rational communication, and 51.9% of the respondents said that online communication is better. Extensive, avoid offline social embarrassment.
Among the surveyed single youths, 31.9% live in first-tier cities, 47.1% in second-tier cities, 17.3% in third- and fourth-tier cities, 3.0% in urban or county towns, and 0.7% in rural areas.
Men accounted for 48.9% and women accounted for 51.1%.
China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Du Yuanchun