A BRUTALLY HONEST GUIDE TO MAKING THE BEST DATING APP PROFILE

Dating apps have existed for years. There have been weddings via Tinder, babies from Bumble and heartbreak on all platforms. It was previously considered somewhat sordid to have met your partner on a dating app like Tinder, but things change and what once felt relatively racy is now a habitual part of the vernacular we use when we talk about modern relationships. Indeed, in this day and age, you might even find that, unless you're particularly tenacious, it’s hard to meet potential love interests without the use of dating apps. This was truer still at the height of the pandemic.

Even if you’ve lasted this long without going on a dating app, the post-lockdown era (or at least the promise of it) could be the thing to finally tempt you. While it’s likely that you’ll download something such as Hinge in jest, sooner or later – alongside the existential crisis centred around what you’re doing there at all – you’ll want to make the best of it. As usual, we have a few ideas about how to do just that:

UPLOAD AT LEAST ONE GROUP PHOTO

Obviously your dating app profile is the motion picture You (starring you), but uploading at least one group photo clearly signals that you have a life outside it – and friends!