Badoo dating app lets you add video clips of your mom to your profile

Mother knows best! Badoo now lets you add video clips from FAMILY members to your dating profile

  • Badoo has launched four new features as part of its family tool
  • Users can ask family members to vouch for them in video messages.

The saying goes that “mom knows best” and now unmarried single kids can enlist their mom’s help in finding love online.

The Badoo dating app now allows you to add video clips of your family members to your dating profile.

The fancy tool is part of Badoo’s new “Family Approved” feature, which allows users to show they’ve called their family to help them set up a date.

Remy Le Fèvre, Global Head of Brand Engagement and Influence at Badoo, said: “Here at Badoo, we strive to make singles feel confident doing their best during their dates, and for many of us it means help from the people who love them the most.

“Family-Approved” is here to help singles feel good from the start of their dating, as well as show potential matches when profiles have been given a trusted green light by their loved ones – which can be a fun icebreaker when starting a conversation!

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The saying goes that “mom knows best” and now unmarried single kids can enlist their mom’s help in finding love online. Badoo dating app now lets you add video clips of your family members to your dating profile (stock image)

Family-Approved includes four new features that are already available on the Badoo app.

You can add a new “Family Approved” badge to your profile, which looks like a purple heart with a white check mark inside.

This subtly indicates the potential dates you have been approved by a member of your family.

Taking it one step further, users can select videos from a family member “endorsing” them with the new Clips feature.

Alternatively, the Hints tool includes special hints that allow you to share what your family would say about you to a potential partner.

Family-Approved includes four new features that are already available on the Badoo app.

Family-Approved includes four new features that are already available on the Badoo app.

Finally, the Interests tool lets you highlight the interests that your family has approved of.

The launch of the new tool follows a survey of 1,000 Britons that found that more than half (56%) would rather involve someone they trust to create their profile on the dating app.

The poll also showed that almost a third (31 percent) think their family would be much better at expressing their best qualities and cute quirks to help them get a date.

Meanwhile, three in five (59 percent) admit to having already reached out to friends or family for help before updating their profile on a dating app.

HOW DATED ONLINE BECAME SO POPULAR?

The first incarnation of a dating app can be traced back to 1995 when Match.com was first launched.

The website allowed single people to upload a profile, picture, and connect with people online.

The app was intended to allow people looking for a long-term relationship to date.

eHarmony was developed in 2000, and two years later, Ashley Madison launched an infidelity and cheating site.

Over the next 10-15 years, many other dating sites with unique target demographics were created, including: OKCupid (2004), Plenty of Fish (2006), Grindr (2009) and Happn (2013). ).

In 2012, Tinder was launched and was the first swipe-based dating platform.

Its usage snowballed after its first launch, and by March 2014, one billion matches were being made worldwide every day.

In 2014, Tinder co-founder Whitney Wolf Heard launched Bumble, a dating app that empowered women by only allowing them to send the first message.

The popularity of mobile dating apps like Tinder, Badoo and most recently Bumble is due to the growing number of young users with busy schedules.

In the 1990s, online dating was seen as a last resort and a desperate attempt to find love.

That belief has dissipated, and about a third of marriages are now between couples who met online.

A 2014 survey found that 84 percent of dating app users used online dating services to find romantic relationships.

24% said they used online dating apps exclusively for sexual encounters.