What do you learn from joining 21 online dating sites? This in-depth study of a list of the top online dating profile words used by single daters in major cities in the U.S. was a huge project to take on.
In Business Insider, writer Dana Varinsky details the research from artist, composer, professor of digital media and now a well-versed online dater R. Luke Dubois to highlight the top dating profile words in ten cities. Varinsky downloaded 19 million dating profiles, so we know he didn’t go on a dating frenzy, but the results of his research are a digital eye-opener.
So if you’re planning on changing your zip code, check this article out.
Varinsky downloaded dating profiles and created graphs of the following cities:
- Los Angeles, CA – Lingerie, Booty, Spanking, Screenwriter
- Washington, DC – Paraguay, Estonia, Kashmiri, Political, Journalist, Socially
- Boston, MA – People, Drinks, Laugh, Sox
- New York, NY – Now, Taxi, Photography, Brunch, Hipsters, Urbane, DJ,
- Houston, TX – Rich
- San Francisco, CA – Bisexual, Homosexual, Lesbian, Queer, Robot, Digitized
- Detroit, MI – Automotive, Machine, GM, Graduating, Companionship, Dope
- Anchorage, AK – Outdoorsy, Nippy, Berries, Corsair
- Jackson, MS – Conservative, Cornbread, Baptist
- Chicago, IL – Companionate, Gravitated
According to Business Insider, Dubois used 10 computers and took three months to compile his data in a project called, “A More Perfect Union.” In essence, he created his own online dating version of singles based using keywords from profiles instead of the cities in the U.S. Census report.
While some of these might not surprise you, others might just make you want to change your zip code.
Julie Spira is America’s Top Online Dating and Mobile Dating Expert. She was an early adopter of Internet dating and has been coaching singles on finding love online for two decades. Julie’s the author of the bestseller The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online and creates Irresistible Profiles for singles on the dating scene.
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Julie Spira is America's Top Online Dating Expert. She's an award-winning dating coach who's been helping singles find love online for 25+ years. Follow @JulieSpira on IG.
