Dating websites have discovered that people are far more inclined to be looking for new mates in the winter months, than during the spring.
According to a report published in The Guardian on Saturday, Mary Balfour, managing director of Drawing Down the Moon, says that the most popular times for people to join dating agencies are January, February and the second week of September. Balfour, who also woks for the online agency, loveandfriends.com, says these peaks reflect people’s need to re-assess their relationship status after the holidays (no one to snuggle with during the cold winter months) and after summer (after unsuitable holiday romances). According to Match.com, the website’s busiest day ever was January 6, 2008, reflecting a rush of resolutions to find a mate.
Balfour says that people who get indifferent responses to their online dating attempts during winter months should attempt to spruce up their photographs or profiles. Balfour told The Guardian that photos need to look friendly (people with photographs are 12 times more likely to be approached) and profiles should be flirty (not sleazy) and humorous.
A US poll by Scripps Howard News Service, which questioned over a 1,000 respondents, found that more than half thought spring was no more romantic than any other time of the year. It revealed that men thought spring was far more romantic as a season than did women. According to The Guardian, there’s an argument for December being the most romantic month, as it has the highest rate of conceptions. Social anthropologists, on the other hand, believe that autumn is the peak time for trying to find a mate, as people want a companion to hold onto as the days get shorter.
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