Dating apps may remain an option for those fighting solitude. Still nearly three out of ten people surveyed said they turned to those apps to have sexual encounters, while about 40 percent reported focusing on finding a partner. In another 2021 survey, approximately 18 percent of Mexicans who used dating apps stated that they did it to find friends. Throughout 2020, lockdown and social distancing measures implemented to counter the spread of the coronavirus pushed many Mexicans to seek human contact on dating apps. Meanwhile, 29 percent of respondents cited Bumble and about nine percent mentioned Badoo.
As of February 2021, almost half (48 percent) of Mexican dating app users surveyed stated using Tinder.
