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A Day in The Life of a New POF User
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The Secret Sauce to Going on More Great Dates… Pssst It’s Not What You Think
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The Secret Sauce to Going on More Great Dates… Pssst It’s Not What You Think
OkCupid Defines Identity Options to Help Non-binary and Transgender Daters
OkCupid was the first dating app to offer expanded gender and orientation options, and we now offer users 22 genders and 20 orientation options. We’re also one of the only non-exclusively LGBTQ+ dating apps that does not force users to select being shown in a binary context. Last Pride Month, we further expanded our identity options for LGBTQ+ users, now giving queer daters over 60 identities to choose from. (And since we know people don’t fit in a single box we allow you to choose up to 5 different identities!) This Pride Month, we’re excited to share that we have added new in-app, matching questions dedicated to our LGBTQ+ daters around the world.
The LGBTQIA community is not only important to us, it’s important to you. Nearly all (97%) of our daters on OkCupid care about LGBTQ+ issues, and 7 in 10 daters say it is important that their match cares about the LGBTQ+ community. We also found that 97% of nearly 1.5 million people on OkCupid support marriage equality. We have always believed love is love.
Our new matching questions, added in honor of Pride Month, help you discover everything from how a match supports the transgender community to what pride means to them. These matching questions, along with all of our other questions about and for the LGBTQ+ community, have been answered 30 million times to date.
What we’re asking:
What you’re saying:
We are also updating our gender and orientation pages on our app. After hearing from different LGBTQ+ users, we realized there was an opportunity to educate and inform people about the different identities we offer. Beginning soon, we will be adding definitions to each of our gender and orientation options to help people better understand what these terms mean, and better serve all our users.
“As we head into Pride month, OkCupid is ensuring users can more accurately and authentically be represented on the platform. We know from our work the difference this makes to LGBTQ+ people,” said Shoshana Goldberg, Ph.D. MPH, Director of the HRC’s Public Education & Research Program. “Kudos to them for their continued commitment to getting LGBTQ+ representation on the platform right.”
Please consider making a donation to HRC today to fuel the fight for equality.
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OkCupid Defines Identity Options to Help Non-binary and Transgender Daters was originally published in OkCupid Dating Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
“Thank You Notes:” A Collection of Poetry
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Why Your Friends Are Your Best Dating Sidekicks
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Declutter Your Dating Life: What to Keep and What to Toss
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Celebrating OkCupid Success Stories
What’s better to celebrate than love? Now that springtime has officially arrived, love is in the air — and we’re feeling particularly nostalgic over all of the amazing couples who have found their love on OkCupid. Here are some of their stories.
Both of us lived in the Bay Area for years but had no idea each other existed until OkCupid brought us together in the sunny summer of ’16. We knew after the first date when we both had butterflies and barely touched our lunches that we were each other’s someone special. Love can spring from anywhere given the chance and we will always be grateful to OkCupid for helping give us our chance and being the start to our strong and beautiful relationship.
We met on OkCupid way back in 2013. Online dating can be intimidating but connecting on OKC was simple. We got to see and read a little about each other, message back and forth, and eventually meet in person! That one message was life changing. It led us to start dating, move in together, get married, and we just welcomed our first child in 2021! I’m so thankful that OKC (and Michelle’s bravery) led me to my adventure partner for life.
The wildest part is that, when we met, it was her first night on the app! We had a lot in common, from a love of burgers to Todd Rundgren, and both of us rearranged our schedules to meet up as soon as we possibly could. That was in 2016. Almost 6 years later, we are married, we have two cats, a niece and a nephew. We are each other’s family, and we gained new, amazing extended families as well. We love everything about one another, aside from the times we have to be apart. We’ve built this amazing life together and it all started on OkCupid.
We have been through so much and grew so much together. He has said he loves my selflessness and humor. I love how he takes care of his family and shows so much love. We truly have a great connection! I was so unsure when getting onto OkCupid, but once we connected, it was hard for me to believe. Yet, over 5 years later we are still together and so happy. We are living the dream now in Alaska — fly fishing, hiking and ATV rides. Me, him, our daughter and his family are so close — its amazing and I am very thankful!
Bailey: I love Sam’s sense of humor and his ability to stay calm in any situation, it keeps me grounded and so at ease. He is truly my safe place…on a good day, on a bad day, I immediately knew that was something I never wanted to live without.
Sam: I love Bailey’s bubbly personality and how she can make anyone feel like her friend. Not to mention that she is absolutely beautiful and ridiculously talented 😉
I was excited and nervous to meet him. We were talking for a long time on OkCupid and then texting a lot. I could tell he was shy because it took him a while to ask me out on a date. I was patiently waiting for him to ask me. I usually don’t swipe right first but I felt something special. I was nervous because I’ve had bad dates before but I knew I had to keep trying. When I met him it’s like I knew he was my person. We had so much in common. We watched movies and we wound up having dinner together and talked all night. When he left we texted all night. I knew it was going to be a success! I love his empathy and his love for pets because we have that in common. I love how he will do anything for me to make me happy. I love how he is my best friend and we have the same sense of humor. I love how we say the same things at the same time and finish each others sentences. We are like one person.
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Celebrating OkCupid Success Stories was originally published in OkCupid Dating Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
Save the Date for Your New Favorite Plenty of Fish Live! Show: Dating Unfiltered
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Save the Date for Your New Favorite Plenty of Fish Live! Show: Dating Unfiltered
Climate change is the #1 issue to daters in 2022
In 2022, climate change is the #1 issue daters care about. It has even surpassed world peace. (Seriously. But more on that later.) So for Earth Month, and by popular demand, we’re bringing back our Climate Change Advocate profile badge and stack for singles around the world. And for every person who opts into the badge, we’re donating $1 (up to $20,000) to Earth Day Initiative, a non-profit organization focused on taking action for the planet. Last year, nearly 400,000 OkCupid users added the badge to their profile and this year we expect over half a million! So let’s get into the data on why so many singles are hot for Climate Change Advocates.
Singles across the globe say the environment is the cause that’s most important to them. In fact, they’re about 30% more likely to choose “the environment” over “world peace” and 2x more likely to pick it over “eradicating all diseases from the earth” when asked “Which cause is most important to you?”
Daters have been hot for the planet for a while now, but their focus on it has been increasing with the temperatures. In the past five years, there has been a 368% increase in environmental- and climate change-related terms on users’ profiles, and over the past three years, there’s been a 36% increase in singles saying they’re concerned about climate change (81% today are).
There’s no doubt millennials are particularly passionate about the planet. Not only are they (and their Gen Z counterparts) the most likely to cite the environment as their key cause, but millennial daters on OkCupid are the most likely to think about climate change on a daily basis. In response to the question “How often do you think about climate change?” less than one-third of millennials said “rarely or never.” They’re also the most likely to ditch plastic, with 74% saying they support a plastic bags and straws ban.
Climate change is the #1 issue for daters around the world, but singles in some countries take it even more seriously than others. Take the plastics ban, for example. For the most part, daters where a plastics ban is already in place are the most likely to support one. In 2020, Germany banned plastic straws and most German daters (85%) are supportive of the ban. The UK introduced a similar ban the same year, and UK daters are next in line for most supportive at 83%. French daters, though, are the least likely to support the ban, despite there already being one in place in France since 2021; nonetheless, the majority of French daters (57%) support it.
Regardless of their views towards a ban, French daters are the most concerned about climate change. American, Israeli, and Indonesian daters are tied for the least — but again, the majority of daters in all three countries are concerned (77%).
French daters also take the lead as those who are the most likely to make a conscious effort to shrink their carbon footprint. Indonesian singles are the least.
While millennial and European singles are leading the charge, there’s no doubt that — no matter where you live or how old you are — loving the planet gets you more love. Ninety percent of daters say it’s important their match cares about the planet, and OkCupid users who are concerned about climate change get 37% more likes and 11% more matches than those who are not.
So if you’re a Climate Change Advocate and want your matches to know, add the OkCupid Climate Change Advocate badge to your profile! Simply answer “yes” to the question “Do you want to support the environment by adding a Climate Change Advocate badge to your profile?” Once you have the badge, you will also appear in the Climate Change stack where you can find other singles with the badge. Both will be available until the end of Earth Month.
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Climate change is the #1 issue to daters in 2022 was originally published in OkCupid Dating Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
Ever Wanted to Smell Your Date Before Meeting Up? Well, Now You Can
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Ever Wanted to Smell Your Date Before Meeting Up? Well, Now You Can
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