Singletons today have access to dating apps of all types and hues and for all orientations and niches. They are more specialised than match.com and the tinder and cater to an altogether different demographic than shaadi.com or jeevansathi.com or bharatmatrimony.com. These services presume to match you based on what is in your fridge and how you smell among other things:
Refrigerdating.com is a service that claims to find you a match based on what’s in your fridge. You upload a picture of your fridge and then people get in touch with you if they like that they see… in your fridge. Like the idea? Well Samsung certainly does – since this is a part of its marketing strategy.
Not so long ago, they gave us smell dating. This matched people based on whether they liked the smell of a garment that someone had worn for three days.
Yes that is in fact the name of the online dating service and it caters to people who feel “unattractive or uncomfortable in their skin”. It is for those who value “genuine personality over outer appearance”. Make what you want of that.
Sizzl is an app that lets you connect romantically to others who love bacon. Because it is far more important to know whether a prospective date likes only pork bacon or will settle for turkey bacon, than to know about their political or religious views.
This one is, as the name suggests, for people with facial hair or bristles or those who are really into beards. It claims to be for “Connecting those with beards to those who want to stroke beards” – fairly straightforward and in line with the current preoccupation with facial hair.
Some call it the ‘sugar daddy’ service others think it is a bit like prostitution. Seeking.com claims to be a place where “Where beautiful, successful people fuel mutually beneficial relationships”. To put it plainly this is a place where people looking to exchange companionship and sexual favours with gifts or money congregate.
This is called the Tinder for high altitudes and presumes to make “flying suck less”. It is the app that matches people looking to get into the mile-high club. It lets you check out who you're going to be travelling with and if there is the potential for an in-flight hookup.
This is a dating website for people who love science fiction. It facilitates the meeting of people who love Isaac Asimov, Ben Bova, Robert A. Heinlein, Douglas Adams, Arthur C. Clarke & more or those who just want to find someone to attend a sci-fi event with.
Love horses? Find someone to love who also loves horses! This website invites you to “keep away from the city and enjoy rural and country life”.
This is like Tinder but with dogs. This is the online service that helps you find your ideal pet. You take a quiz, the service algorithm creates a matching score and they find you an adoptable, compatible pet based on your personality.
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