It’s likely that everyone who tried to find their true love online started their search on the most popular sites — Tinder, Badoo, and so on. This choice is obvious, because the services are very popular, and their audience is huge. But one could argue with the efficiency of finding a match on such large services. Often a large audience is actually a minus, because it can be difficult to find a really suitable person.
Not surprisingly, in recent years, niche, themed sites and dating applications with an emphasis on certain interests have become increasingly popular. When choosing a potential partner they help you not to focus solely on the photo and profile description, but also on the preferences, interests, hobbies of a person, and so on. This is a real opportunity to find your twin soul.
Dating services based on interests
There’s a search by interests on many dating sites, but it’s usually a very primitive tool that does not work well. Tinder, Badoo, Bumble, Huggle — this is just a small list of applications with the search for a potential match by interest. The problem is that so many users choose the “right” interests in order to appear better in the eyes of potential partners. “Literature”, “Classical music”, “History” are examples of those interests. However, they may not have anything to do with reality.
If you’re already looking for a platform for online dating by interest, it’s better to choose niche services that are already tailored to a specific list of interests. We can give several examples.
There are tons of dating apps for sports fans. For example, Sweatt — for those who are looking for partners for joint training with a relationship angle, or MeetMeOutside for those who prefer to get acquainted outdoors — for example, when jogging, doing yoga or crossfit. Meanwhile the developers of the Power of Music application have created an algorithm that selects a potential partner based on your music playlist. After all, similar musical tastes are very important in a relationship.
There are also very unusual sites for online dating, which are completely different from the services familiar to most. You may have heard of the Hater app, which searches for the right match not by common interests, but by what people hate. There are a variety of options: “slow walking people”, “broccoli”, “Donald Trump” and so on. Surprisingly, it works well!
Fans of “one-night stands” also didn’t go unnoticed. For them, there are applications like Down and Pure, which are specifically designed for dating for sex without obligations. Believe me, there are a huge number of people in the world who do not need relationships at the moment, but they still want to satisfy their sexual needs. For them, such applications are a real find.
Continuing the previous ideas, there’s the Newpl application. Its main idea is to help users find people with the same sexual fantasies that they themselves prefer to remain silent about. It can be a one-night stand, a threesome, or a homosexual relationship. Newpl is an app for the brave and for those who are not afraid of experimentation.
But those who want to transfer online communication offline quickly should definitely take a closer look at the ParkFace application. It helps, for example, find a companion for dog walking, a picnic in the park, sports together, bike trips and much more. ParkFace helps to solve two problems at once — to find an interesting person and meet them in the real world. In our current time, when offline dating has become a rarity, this is really important.
The list of niche apps and dating sites can be very long. On top of that, new sites with even more unusual ideas regularly appear. But how effective are they in general?
Dating by interest: real perspectives
Here, in fact, not everything is so clear. Common interests are great, but the problem is that one common interest does not mean anything. You and a new friend (or woman friend) may like the same music, but your preferences in cinema will be completely different. Both of you may love to travel, but the preferences will be completely incomparable. One likes to lie on the beach for a week and do absolutely nothing, while the other likes to go on a multi-day hike in the mountains at — 15°C. So it turns out that the interests seem to be common, but in practice they are completely different.
We can give some tips on how to make dating by interest more effective:
- List as many interests as possible. This will help other people to better understand what kind of person you are. Do not limit yourself to the boring “Cinema”, “Music” and “Travel”. List your really unusual interests — this will help in the search.
- Don’t list interests just to impress. Sooner or later, the other person will realize that you actually lied. It will hurt both of you.
- Don’t rely only on your list of interests. Yes, this is an important factor, but not the only one. To understand what kind of person is in front of you, one list of their interests and hobbies is not enough.
The only right way to find out if there is a spark and a common language between you is to communicate face-to-face, ideally offline. If this is not possible, by video communication.
Random video chats: your helper in finding the perfect match
In our time, dating and communication offline is a big rarity. This is not only because of the coronavirus pandemic, but also due to the fact that for many, trying to get to know each other on the street is something strange and wrong. This is the kind of society we live in.
The best alternative to live communication is random video chat. Here you communicate face to face as in the real world, but online. And there are more than enough interesting online video chats today. For example, in Chatrandom there is not only a search by interests, but also themed chat rooms. Bate-papo UOL — one of the largest services, with chat rooms by interest. Ome TV — a random video chat with gender and geographic filters, as well as an auto-translator of messages. VideoChat.chat — a random video chat that only connects men with girls and is never wrong. Omegle — a classic video chat with strangers with a simple but convenient search by interests. Tinychat — a video streaming service with various topics. ChatAlternative — an analogue of Ome TV with almost identical functionality, but with a different design.
Shared interests are only the start
Searching for a potential match by interest is a good idea in itself. The main thing is not to rely only on it. Try to use different communication formats — dating sites and apps, random video chats, social networks and instant messengers. If possible, switch the format of communication to a video chat, and then to an offline meeting.
The point is not to stop, and keep searching. If you’re really set on interesting and promising acquaintances, then nothing is impossible. And search by interest is just one of the many tools available that you can and should use.