Pushy Parents Move Matchmaking Efforts Online

China’s “matchmaking markets,” where well-intentioned parents gather in parks to advertise their single children for marriage, have moved online amid the coronavirus outbreak. With public gatherings still discouraged in most cities, many parents have migrated their meddling to messaging apps like DingTalk. Instead of tacking up their children’s stats on park bulletin boards, parents are posting to the app and arranging teleconference meet-ups. DingTalk and similar office suite apps have seen users surge as the Covid-19 epidemic forced schools, businesses and other services to operate online. With more countries now quarantining their citizens, social media users joked that now is the opportunity for DingTalk to seize a larger share of the international market.