Tagged: dating

using a survey to collect submissions

I created an online survey titled ‘tell us your dating horror stories‘ so that we could collect submissions for our magazine based around people’s interesting, funny or embarrassing first date or internet dating experiences. The survey had an option to leave your name or leave the submission anonymous. We received over 40 submissions and after narrowing them down have decided these will form part of our main feature article for the first issue, clearly summarising what our issue wants to talk about and commenting on young people’s use of social media to find potential relationships.

magazine concept: sex/relationships and internet dating

After mindmapping the current zeitgeist/scene amongst people around our age, we decided a theme stood out to all of us and this was social media, connectivity and mainly, internet dating. We chose our magazine to have a theme of modern relationships and perhaps more broadly, matters of youth culture, with our first issue being heavily themed around Tinder and internet dating.

We wanted our publication to tackle the topics not often explicitly talked about in young adults’ publications, with our magazine providing a platform to create a commentary on these new ways of living and connecting. The magazine will challenge norms and what is ‘acceptable’, giving a satirical, fun and light-hearted approach while also being a publication that readers can identify with.