Dating in 2022 AKA Post Pandemic

With things opening back up, the dating world is also coming back to full health. Having been on dating sites like Tinder and Bumble both before during and after the pandemic, I have experienced how the dating landscape changed. Certain personalities thrived in the dating world during the pandemic and certain other personalities thrive now post pandemic. Introverts are most likely to of loved what dating in the pandemic was, if they got out of their shell and actually tried dating. Now you see more extroverted personalities and also now more than ever you see tinder interests include "traveler, adventurous, into nature" and many more things that weren't normally seen during the pandemic.

Keep in mind this is being told from someone next to a metropolis of a city so my experience is that from a super populated location in the U.S. I understand there are rural areas that probably had no change in your dating landscape.

Dating before the pandemic had a mix of all people on dating sites. A healthy balance of introverts and extroverts. You'd see that shy girl from your college class and a person on vacation just looking for a good time. some might of said we took it for granted how balanced the dating app world was. All sorts of people were on and you had your choice at variety before the pandemic and an endless amount of things to do.

If you are an extroverted introvert or home body then pandemic dating was the thing for you. You had just enough outgoing energy to try online dating but were introverted enough to want to hangout at home. It was easy during the pandemic to try and have something more casual. Seeing as how everything was closed, the only dating options were seeing each other at one another's house. That made it easy as a homebody to have an excuse to watch TV and Movies and have it still be considered a "date". It was hard to really find anything wrong with that as everything was closed. The downside to trying to have something serious during this time is that you probably get tired of your partner pretty quickly as you are cooped up inside just about every time you see each other. Depending on how strict your area was with social distancing maybe you could go out and enjoy nature together. I found myself going on a 4 a.m. hike at some point with a date so goes to show what the only options for a "date" were at the time.

Now as things opened up, dating returned back to normal in a way but there seems to be some things that the pandemic did change. It is understandable for traveling interests to be up in popularity. One intriguing thing that also went up in popularity have been pets, and alcohol consumption. Before the pandemic sure you'd see people like to party and drink casually. But now, post pandemic, drinking almost seems to be a hobby or interests. You are more likely to see profiles where people say things like "looking for someone to go out and drink" or "my interests include going out to drink with friends" things like that. Not to say that is alarming but those kind of things weren't too common before the pandemic. it was knowns that people like to go out and drink or party but to be looking for someone to do that with just shows how drinking during the pandemic affected a whole generation. Pets are another thing that have gone up in popularity for single people. More than ever you find pet parents looking for a partner that hopefully has the same interests in pets or wants to be a pet parent. It is a little overwhelming if you stuck around online dating since the pandemic. As the number of introverts looking to date is now outweighed by the number of extroverted people eager to get out there and date.

Perhaps the dating landscape will return back to normal. For now if you consider drinking a hobby or picked up a pet during the pandemic then your not alone. If you are an introvert hopefully you found someone during the pandemic because if not, you will have to get out of your shell if you want to find someone on dating apps now.