Dating platform SaucyDates has conducted a survey of its users to find out whether they have ever found a date on a non-dating app.
The company surveyed 1,606 members around the world to find out what they said.
It discovered that 32% of online daters have found a date before by using an online non-dating app.
The three apps that came out with the top results were Facebook, with 55% of users finding a date on the platform, Instagram, with 13%, and 10% on Twitter.
Advertising company Craigslist and business network LinkedIn both had a smaller percentage – 4% of users found a date on these sites.
Google+ and eBay each had 3%, and Omegle, Yahoo! Answers and Porn Hub all had 2% of users revealing they had found potential partners.
Finally, receiving the lowest percentage of people using the apps for dating, were YouTube and Whisper had only 1% each.
SaucyDates asked some of its users how the above apps helped lead to a date, this is what they said:
J, 18 female UK (Facebook): “He liked my picture and we started chatting”
G, 23 male, Canada (Instagram): “Commenting on her pictures and then it grew from there”
D, 23 male UK (Twitter): “Commented on a post and just started chatting”
H, 42 male USA (eBay): “I went to purchase an item from a seller who happened to be a gorgeous lonely house wife”
See SaucyDate’s full infographic of its results below:
