DATA
Our survey was distributed by our group members and was publicized through social media sites like Twitter and Snapchat, and sent to our immediate friend groups as well. The graphs below is the data we were able to collect.
Originally, our group was going to specifically focus on the dating app habits of folks that are in their undergrad (typically ranging from 18-23), however, we decided to broaden the spectrum to see if there were any similarities between younger users and older ones. We also were aware that as much as dating apps, namely Tinder and Bumble are most popular within younger generations, we acknowledge that older users are active on those platforms as well and we did not want to exclude them from the project. Our data shows how people seem to be on dating apps well into their twenties, however, the population of users dwindles down once we hit the thirties.
In our survey, we also asked participants what their gender identity is if they were comfortable sharing. The data shows that 67.5% of participants in the survey identify as female, 26.1% identify as male, and 6.4% identified as non-binary/gender non-conforming. We cannot draw any conclusions with this information as our survey was done on a small scale and reached mostly people we are friends with (mostly females in our group's case) and random Twitter followers, therefore the population is disproportionate.
Our survey was able to reach a diverse array of people with varying sexual orientations including straight, pansexual, bisexual gay/lesbian, queer, and on bi/pan spectrum
We asked participants to share if they were comfortable, what their intentions were by using Tinder/Bumble, and we received a wide array of answers. In the survey, we left a fill in the blank section in case the intentions that we had listed in the previous answers did not suffice, and sure enough, many participants wrote in their different reasons for online dating. After curating and sifting through the countless fill in the blank responses, we were able to concise them into their own categories and create the graph to the left. What was the most surprising revelation was the fact that the intention of having a short term and a long term relationship were both exactly 28.2%.
There is a strong preference in Tinder, which was prevalent in both the surveys and interviews. It seems as if many people prefer Tinder due to its more simple app interface, compared to Bumble.
DATING APP HABITS
