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According to data from the How Couples Meet and Stay Together survey, a comprehensive national survey on romantic [[relationship]]s in the US, 39% of couples now meet and start [[relationship]]s from online services like chats, games, social networks and dating apps. This has now become the leading way for [[relationship]]s to start. The share of couples meeting online has almost doubled since 2009. Between 1995 to 2017, meeting through friends saw the largest decline, with 40% fewer people meeting this way. | According to data from the How Couples Meet and Stay Together survey, a comprehensive national survey on romantic [[relationship]]s in the US, 39% of couples now meet and start [[relationship]]s from online services like chats, games, social networks and dating apps.<ref>Rosenfeld M, Thomas RJ, Hausen S. 2019. Research Note: Disintermediating your friends. Pending for peer-review publication. | ||
htttps://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_et_al_Disintermediating_Friends.pdfps://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_et_al_Disintermediating_Friends.pdf</ref><ref>https://data.stanford.edu/hcmst</ref><ref>https://qz.com/1546677/around-40-of-us-couples-now-first-meet-online/</ref> This has now become the leading way for [[relationship]]s to start. The share of couples meeting online has almost doubled since 2009. Between 1995 to 2017, meeting through friends saw the largest decline, with 40% fewer people meeting this way. | |||
This is likely the most transformative change that has occurred in the dating sphere in the past 20 years. This change coincides clearly with many of the other trends discussed on this page, such as the overall increase in male celibacy during this time frame and greater amount of sex being consolidated to the top 5-20% of men. | This is likely the most transformative change that has occurred in the dating sphere in the past 20 years. This change coincides clearly with many of the other trends discussed on this page, such as the overall increase in male celibacy during this time frame and greater amount of sex being consolidated to the top 5-20% of men. | ||
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* ''We find that Internet meeting is displacing the roles that family and friends once played in bringing couples together.'' | * ''We find that Internet meeting is displacing the roles that family and friends once played in bringing couples together.'' | ||
Many of the online places couples meet on, especially dating apps, are extremely focused on [[lookism|looks]]. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||