A Shot of Love: Online Daters Increasingly Seeking Out Vaccinated Partners
Single and looking to mingle? Getting the shot may increase your chances of making a match.
As pre-COVID life is starting to resume, and more and more people are getting vaccinated to protect themselves from the virus, online daters are taking vaccination status into consideration when looking for love. In fact, according to OKCupid, last October and November, profile mentions of vaccination increased by 30 percent and had increased 64 percent by December. Similarly, around this same time, Tinder reported that mentions of vaccination had increased by 238 percent in user profiles on the platform.
What Online Daters Are Saying About Vaccination
In order to make it easier for people to find prospective partners that have been vaccinated, 3Fun, an app that caters to swingers, has allowed its users to easily add their vaccination status to their profiles. The company told me that most users report they love this new feature, so to find out more about their thoughts, 3Fun conducted a survey for me of about 500 people on the app. The following are some of the responses to my questions.
“I have met people outside for walks and drinks —…
