The new dating method Gen Z are using to find love though social media

If you've been trying to find love online through the dating apps, it's safe to say the experience isn't quite what it was.

Through the steady process of ens**tiffication many of the apps people liked using have become progressively worse, limiting the number of profiles people can see and making sure they don't know exactly who likes them without paying.

Plenty of people on the apps will have times when they decide to be done with them before eventually going back and being reminded why they quit in the first place.

According to The Daily Mail, the new dating trend among Generation Z is not apps but applications and in a weird way, it's a bit like the recreation of those old dating videos where someone really has to sell themselves and their prospects as a partner, only on social media.

However, Gen Z seem to have flipped the script because rather than putting themselves out there in the hopes of snagging a romantic partner, they're putting themselves out there and waiting for the prospective partners to come to them.

Gen Z seem to have revived video dating, but on social media (Getty Stock Photo)

These 'application videos' aren't so much to convince people to date them, but to let you know they're open to dating and it's you who now has to do the convincing.

Apparently TikTok has plenty of videos from people saying they're accepting 'applications', there are also people doing it on behalf of their friends and family members too.

It may be the dating method of choice for pretty people with a significant enough social following and a tolerance for sifting through the inevitable creeps who will respond, though most people (women especially) who've been on any of the apps before will have had plenty of experience dealing with creepy people.

According to The New York Post, Anise Armstrong was the first to pioneer these applications, taking to her TikTok to announce that she was taking 'boyfriend applications', with the sound bite eventually becoming viral as people began to adding their requirements, which can include 'interesting men' or just a 'winter boyfriend.

There's a name for that, too.

One hopes that this new method will also work well for those who are not as immediately fair on the eye, but instead possess a beauty that grows on you over time.

Here's hoping it works (Getty stock images)

There's plenty of people on the internet looking for love and if it can get you to meet a potential partner then maybe it's a good idea after all.

At this time of year, we're still in 'cuffing season' where people are looking to get into a relationship.

Tomorrow (5 January) is apparently 'Dating Sunday' which, according to the people who work for the dating app Hinge, is set to be one of the busiest days on the site, with 9pm being the most likely message time.

Presumably all those people who were rendered newly single for Christmas now feel like enough time has passed to get back out there and find someone else.