BlueCity Holdings Limited offers social internet services to diverse users around the world. Their portfolio includes the apps Blued, Bluedbaby, Danlan Public Interest, He Health, and other products across China, Korea, India, Vietnam, and Thailand. BlueCity became the world’s largest LGBTQ-focused online community in 2019. I found out they attained this height of recognition based …
If you’re like me, it’s likely that you’ve had a few negative experiences on dating apps. For most people, these experiences tend to involve things like dates with boring conversations or people catfishing you. However, a recent report from identity verification website Social Catfish reveals the frequency with which scammers target individuals on dating apps …
Match Group has paid $2 million to help settle a civil suit after finding itself accused of renewing paid subscriptions without the site users’ consent. As a result of the lawsuit, which was first brought to court in late 2020, Match.com has also pledged to make changes to its subscription and cancellation policies to make …
Intelligence and analytics company Sensor Tower recently released the 2021 “State of Lifestyle Apps” report, providing a number of interesting insights into the ways that we use our mobile apps from a social perspective. While many salient tidbits can be found within this report, there are a number of important findings for people using their …
We all dream of finding love. From the initial feeling of butterflies to the joy of being in a loving, supportive relationship, there are few things better. However, many people find themselves unexpectedly single later in life. Perhaps you are divorced or your partner passed away. Maybe you simply never found Mr. or Mrs. Right. …
If you’re in a diner with a friend or a family member, it can be fun to look at the other couples around you to try to work out if they’re on a first date and how it’s going. Does he keep checking his phone? Is she playing with her hair? Will they sleep together …
Love triangles. Whilst they might be adored by most romantic comedy fans, anyone who’s ever been involved in one in real life might well argue that they are, in fact, the worst. Unfortunately, a lot of people have been in a love triangle at some point in their romantic lives and it’s easy to allow …
Dating etiquette has always been bizarre. It seems like every generation has a different take on the rules and what you are or are not allowed to do changes regularly. If I asked someone ten years older than me how long I should wait after a date before I called a woman, they might give …
In Yorkshire, England, in the 1970s a man stalked and killed women. The police, bumbling fools, dripping with incompetence, dismissed women who survived attacks, pursued obviously false leads and urged women to stay at home and act safely. There are so many issues with this, it’s difficult to comprehend. Firstly, women are most likely to be …
A fun thing to do, if you’re ever in the mood to be utterly befuddled, is to read dating advice for different generations. A few years ago a quote from Hessiod, a Greek poet who lived 700 years before Jesus, went viral. It claimed that you should “not let a woman who decorates her buttocks …