Millennials vs. Gen Z: How Are They Different?

On Sunday afternoon, Eleanor Dolan celebrated her 17th birthday in Minnesota with 20 of her closest friends. They listened to pop music and traded jokes. Then, she blew lightly on her computer screen. Miles away, her friends extinguished candles atop baked goods in front of them. The party was taking place over Zoom, a video calling app.

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Yet amid the coronavirus panic of the past few weeks, when colleges, universities, and workplaces started shutting down en masse and social distancing evolved from buzzword to public-health necessity, there were no options available for singles who wanted to find love in the age of mandatory self-quarantine, until three college students decided to make one. The website, which connects college students from more than schools across the country for virtual Zoom dates, is called OKZoomer — a reference to both the video-conferencing app it uses as a platform where many universities are holding virtual classes , and the generation to which it caters.

The school officially canceled in-person classes for the rest of the semester. When Gorska sent her a meme referencing love over Zoom, Valdez finally saw her opportunity. Valdez and Gorska decided to post a Google form promising to match up college students interested in either a blind date or making a friend. It went viral on various meme pages, generating more than 1, responses. Valdez enlisted her brother Jorge, 23, a Southern Methodist University graduate with a computer-science degree, to come up with a simple algorithm to match people based on the data from the form , then send them their contact info so they can independently set up Skype or Zoom dates.