Between fake profiles and over-inflated egos, it can really be difficult to find a person who you connect with. It really makes generations who grew up without online dating harken back to the "old days" when you would just meet a person while you were out and about running errands or introduced through friends.
But it looks like Gen Z has come up with a interesting way to take dating out of an app and bring it back to a more personal and "organic" place.
As reported by Screenshot, the Pear Ring, a small turquoise band that is potentially about to completely change the way gen Zers, zillennials, and lower millennials mingle and match. This subtle piece of jewellery is out to make a big and splashy statement. As Pear sees it, “if 1.2 billion singles around the world wore a little green ring on their finger to show they’re single, we wouldn’t need dating apps. IRL connection is the mission.”
The general message seems to be that dating apps are inherently destroying the dating experience, and so Pear has tried to create a new way for singletons to identify one another and connect in a more organic way.
“In a bar, on a plane, at the gym, on a train, at work, walking the dog, at a wedding, in a club, on the tube, ordering a coffee, at the office, having a haircut, going for a run, playing tennis,” the gist is to simply pop this little blue ring on your finger, go out into the world and hopefully meet the one. While I’m not usually the optimistic type, it is a romantic fantasy.
The company’s website is interesting—when you first try to access the page a small pop up screen asks you “are you single?” If you answer no, you’re immediately booted off the site and told “this is a product just for single people who are in a position to meet other people.” If you answer yes, you’re welcomed in and shown Pear’s primary landing page.
This is a unique business model and it's hard to say if anything will become of the Pear Ring, but it's interesting that Gen Z is so interested in going back to a more old-fashioned way of meeting people.
What do you think? Is this an idea that's bound to fail? Or could it help bring people face-to-face more often?
