Around 34% of Indian respondents don’t use dating apps as they worry that they might get cheated by fraudsters, revealed a survey. 43% of people also said that they do not trust people on dating apps. Meanwhile, 27% of the survey respondents revealed that they were actually targeted by cybercriminals and 36% of the respondents added that even after getting contacted by scammers, they anyhow managed to avoid getting attacked. The motivation for why those who used online dating in India searched for the person they were going to meet varied from needing to learn more about their match (29%), verifying the person was actually real (44%), fact-checking what their match told them about themselves (21%), and wanting to see how their potential date interacted on social media (35%).
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In the real world
When meeting someone for the first time for an in-person date, 24% of respondents make sure a meeting spot is a public place and 37% let a friend or family member know who they are meeting or share their live location with them. 25% set the meeting location to a place they are familiar with, while 14% ask a friend or family member to be at the same location and time as the date
The consequences of searching
While almost four in ten people who researched their date decided not to meet up with the person based on what they found online or because they couldn’t find anything at all, others were encouraged by their learnings as 37% decided to continue chatting and 34% to continue seeing that person. Six in ten of them (61%) even ended up having a longer relationship (dated for 2 months or more) with the person they searched for, and 25% ended up getting married or having children with that person.
To search or not to search?
“Searching or not searching a person ahead of a date is a personal decision, as long as it is being done with respect for someone’s privacy and sticking to public information available online,” says Petra Moravcová, Consumer Insights Expert at Avast. Of the Indian users that didn’t search for their matches online, 18% said this was because they didn’t have enough information to carry out a search. In addition, 37% felt it was not necessary to do so, 34% preferred not to judge people based on what they could find online and would rather meet them in person first, and 24% didn’t believe it was ethical.
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