Research by\u00a0Kaspersky Lab has revealed what South Africans want from online dating services.<\/p>\n
It stated that\u00a031% of South Africans use online dating services and apps, but that people looking for \u201cthe one\u201d online might be disappointed.<\/p>\n
The research showed that of the users on services like Tinder, Bumble, and OK Cupid, only 10% are looking for a marriage partner.<\/p>\n
50% of online dating users are doing it \u201cfor fun\u201d, while 19% are only looking for sex.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe online dating world is also rife with false information,\u201d said\u00a0Kaspersky.<\/p>\n
62% of people locally admitted to lying while dating online. This included faking information to make themselves look better than they do in real life.<\/p>\n
17% of people said they have encountered\u00a0scammers trying to\u00a0extort personal or financial information from them, or sending them malicious links.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnline dating is a great way of meeting new people in our connected and busy online world, but it isn\u2019t all plain sailing,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
Research by\u00a0Kaspersky Lab has revealed what South Africans want from online dating services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":115825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25222,25220,25224,20252],"class_list":["post-121444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bumble","tag-kaspersky-lab","tag-ok-cupid","tag-tinder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}