Mobile dating app Tinder simplifies an increasingly complicated hookup culture, appealing to online dating sceptics and millennials alike by minimising the chances of rejection.

If social media can help improve our social and work lives, why not our intimate lives too? Combining social media with real-life hardware, Kiiroo offers people the chance to actually touch their partner online – making virtual sex very, very real.

Online dating is a huge industry, and websites must work increasingly hard to stand out. For SHOPaMAN, that means a tongue-in-cheek e-commerce format. Is it just a gimmick, or is this really the future of millennial dating?

It’s been described by Cosmopolitan as “Sex and the City marries Facebook”. But is women-only app Lulu, where men are ‘reviewed’ by their exes, anything more than a reversal of the increasingly prominent online objectification of women?