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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.<ref>Rosenfeld M, Thomas RJ, Hausen S. 2019. Research Note: Disintermediating your friends. Pending for peer-review publication. | According to data from the "How Couples Meet and Stay Together" 2018 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>[https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_et_al_Disintermediating_Friends.pdf Rosenfeld M, Thomas RJ, Hausen S. 2019. Research Note: Disintermediating your friends.] Pending for peer-review publication.</ref><ref>[https://data.stanford.edu/hcmst How Couples Meet and Stay Together]</ref><ref>https://qz.com/1546677/around-40-of-us-couples-now-first-meet-online/</ref> This has now become the leading way for relationships 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. | ||