Silver Singles Dating During the Coronavirus Pandemic – Thrive Global

We have seen some reports on the media for the romantic love stories of young people during the quarantine time. Like the ‘Drone Guy’ who asked out a girl dancing on a roof finally went on a date with her in a giant inflatable ball. But how about the senior singles who are not that tech savvy to use something like drone? And so far to the best of our knowledge, older people are much easier to be infected by the coronavirus. Then how can they keep looking for someone special while practicing social distancing?

Move things online

Luckily, we are not that unprepared. During the pandemic, we can move a lot of things online thanks to our modern technology. From online school to online meetings, our lifestyle has been changed a lot by the situation. There is no exception for online dating. If online dating is already trending before the quarantine, then the current situation increased its population dramatically.

A data from the popular dating site OKCupid indicates that daters sent more than 35 million messages in March, 2020, which is about 4 million more than the same time last year. For senior dating, there will be more of them start to use senior dating sites rather than traditional dating like introducing by mutual friends etc. Sites like Match has brought out new video chat feature so you can do virtual
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