The year of dating selectively: finding love in 2016 means keeping out ‘undesirables’

Dating apps to which you have to apply to join promise to end time-wasting mismatches

New year, new love life. It's a resolution that hundreds of thousands will make this month and January 2016 is expected to see the highest ever number of sign-ups to dating apps. But this year the apps are going in a new direction - instead of spreading the net as widely as possible, the new ones are all about keeping out "undesirable" people.

The League is one such app. It heavily vets members, boasts that only 20-25% of those who apply are allowed in, and has more than 75,000 people on its waiting list. It launched in America last year and is now coming to the UK. Applicants must provide access to their profiles on LinkedIn, the business-oriented social network, to check out their academic achievements and employment history.