Effects of Modern Dating Applications on Healthy Offline Intimate Relationships during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of the Tinder Dating Application

摘要

This work is a review study on the outcome of online dating applications on offline mode healthful affairs during the corona virus outbreak. This study establishes the positive and negative effects social media dating applications such as the tinder app which is used as a case study for this work, have on healthy offline intimate relationships. The analysis further reveals future directives on how to stay clear of and also resist temptations that emanate from the use of social media dating app to maintain a healthy affair with the offline partner, especially during a pandemic. The study concludes therefore that due to the COVID-19 epidemic which resulted in loneliness and boredom due to adhering to the stay at home policy, there was a rapid increase of online dating applications especially on Tinder and had in so many ways, positively and negatively affected healthful offline affairs.