Facebook Date AppsDating sites have been around since the advent of the internet. However, at the beginning, most single people refused to go anywhere near them. The popular opinion was that they were the last refuge of the dull and desperate. Oh, how times have changed. According to a recent survey, one in five couples in the UK met on a dating site. What changed? For one thing, single people are having a heck of a time meeting other interesting singles. We know this because the marriage rate in the UK recently fell to a 150 year low. It is also a fact that the average woman in the UK is now 50 percent less likely to marry than her mother. The men don't fare much better. Is a Facebook date the solution? As you may know, Facebook is the most popular social networking site in the world. And while not officially a dating site, many of the new Facebook apps offered for the iPhone are dating applications. In fact, their most popular dating application, Zoosk, is a perennial bestseller at the App Store. According to Facebook, about 80,000 members download Zoosk each and every day. In the end, that is the primary advantage of dating on Facebook — they have an incredible number of single members. Even the biggest internet dating sites only offer a few hundred thousand profiles of single members. By comparison, Facebook offers a few hundred million. Dating apps help new users narrow those numbers a bit and search for interesting singles in their area. Most applications can be downloaded for free at the App Store. |