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There was a time when dating online was relatively frowned upon.

People with poor social skills were blamed.

In addition, the media was scarce until well into the 90s. There was

the IRC chat

, a classic place to meet people from all over the world divided by several rooms focused on different topics, but it ended up being displaced by Messenger at the turn of the century.

Of course, things were different there: it was about starting conversations (or sending buzzes at least) with contacts who were previously included in the Hotmail email account.

At the same time, thematic channels moved to mobile phones, where

thematic channels were fooled with SMS

.

Of course, each message cost their money, so seduction became a matter of matching upper and lower case letters to make the most of the space.

Now there are hundreds of applications and web pages focused on uniting lonely souls (or not so much) to the point that the claim that the game of seduction has evolved more in the last decade than in the previous 10,000 years seems a harsh reality.

But without going into assessing the danger that losing the ability to flirt face-to-face can pose, the truth is that the pandemic has forced many of the detractors

of dating

apps

to fall into their networks, although these are rarely free (at less for men).

So, leaving aside the private messages on Instagram or Facebook (although the latter has released Facebook Couples) these are the applications and platforms that must be registered to meet new people.

AdoptUncle

Its main hook is to ensure that it is the only platform in its sector that manages to equalize the number of users of both sexes.

In Spain it has two million registered, most of which (86%) are in an age range between 18 to 35 years.

Founded by the French

Florent Steiner

and

Manuel Conejo

, the company has more than 25 million profiles around the world.

His concept is simple:

girls are the ones who have the power to decide which men they contact

.

For this reason, since its inception, it likes to be called a "feminine, conventional and somewhat transgressive" company, given to "ironic about the clichés and the current hyperconsumption society".

Some applications have introduced video calling among their functions.

Meetic

"Video calls will increase and the search for series relationships will generate greater trust in users," they say from Meetic, the application to find couples founded in 2001. Present in 16 European countries and available in 13 languages, it claims to have formed around a million of couples in Spain.

Such dominance of love in our country (they call themselves "leaders in

online dating

") allows them to venture that

sex or intimate relationships "will take a backseat, prioritizing knowing someone more deeply

.

"

To improve this trend towards

slow dating

(longer conversations to get to know each other in depth), the company has included video calling service and considerable improvements in its

chatbot

, called Lara, which in recent months has received millions of questions, including the following : "How to improve the profile? Where to go to that first date when to give the first kiss? What is the ideal moment to say I want to wear you for my first meeting?".

In 2020, they hosted more than 18 million conversations where 61% of singles have declared "looking for a true story."

Tinder

If there was anyone left to know the application, its current promotion campaign in

prime time

television (members of

The Island of Temptations

included) has just consolidated it in the popular imagination.

It is free, at least initially: to be able to give unlimited "likes" or to access contacts from another part of the world you have to go through the box.

What there is no doubt is that it has become the

most popular dating

app

in the world, with

an accumulated 55,000 million

matches

, a term used when you find someone who is attractive.

Their system of moving the photo of the candidate to one side or another if there is interest or not has spread to the competition and the standardization of its use has been such that there are also those who use it to meet people without the need for the love or sex is in the foreground.

Or at least that's what they say.

There are apps that provide extramarital affairs.

Gleeden

With Gleeden we enter into league grounds that move away from the conventional and enter the dark side.

Mainly because it is an application ... for infidels.

That is why the data provided by

the leading extramarital dating platform in Europe has an

even greater impact.

Thought "by and for women", her studies assure that

Spanish women "want more than they execute" and are not as sexually liberated as might be supposed

.

"They have an average of six sexual relations at least, but they have sexual desire on average 9.7 times, so they only cover 61% of sexual desire. 39% are repressed", show a study carried out with the consultant Drive for International Women's Day.

For this reason, they are offered as a solution.

And the results are palpable.

"Last year, after the outbreak of the pandemic and lockdown,

our new user registrations increased by 160% on average

, and the hours and modes of use of the

app

/ web also changed. During the first months of This year 2021, and after the Christmas holidays, the registrations of new users have been increasing (January and February are usually always a peak time, like September) although not as fast and dazzling as last year. We could say that we are experiencing stable growth: the number of new users and the time of use of the site has been increased by over 75% compared to the same time in other pre-pandemic years ", they explain from the company.

SugarDaters

It is one of the main

sugar dating

platforms in

the world, with close to one million users globally.

Present in 27 countries in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia, its commitment is "to end prejudices and build relationships based on the expectations of each one, respect, trust, fun, curiosity and the desire to grow together" .

To achieve this, it exercises strict control over user profiles (they are manually approved).

They are about romantic relationships and where giving and receiving gifts, money and other things becomes a transcendental factor, generally, with a significant age difference between the two.

"The productive success of a country is found in its male

and

female entrepreneurs. They are people who spend their days working, often without vacations, and who through our page save time when it comes to finding a partner. SugarDaters

saves them the frustration of losing weeks in appointments in which it is not clear what one wants,

"they assure from the company.

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