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It's been trending this way for years, but seeing it graphed out like this is shocking.
What do you think are the effects of this drastic change?
I met my spouse online in the naughts, and it was unusual and required explaining to most people.
Why the rise in meeting people at work in the 1980s? Was this when there was an increase in office jobs?
Just got married to my wife this last weekend, who I met after being on Bumble for about 2 weeks... Gotta go buy some scratchers.
If anyone is jumping into this thread: ctrl+f "fake". There is a good discussion about the data that you shouldn't miss.
Huh. I never knew that people really do meet at bars for more than just a one night stand.
It is more that you meet them for a one night stand. Then you decide to hang out later. Then you wake up one day and you two are married with children.
I first dated online in 1999, and the first woman I dated I ended up marrying and having two kids with, though we divorced in 2017.
I still date online these days, and I prefer it. It allows me to know a little about a person before I waste any time chatting them up, and the things I need to know are things they generally put on their profile. Things like their sexuality (since I am non-binary), their political leaning (I'm socialist), their relationship orientation (I'm polyamorous), whether our values match...you know...important shit. And those early conversations before we ever meet in person are low-key enough that I feel more comfortable with them IRL, something that helps me as an autistic person.
I remember being in highschool in the late 90s/early 2000s and someone found out I had an online dating profile.
I was relentlessly teased about it, borderline bullying.
I eventually met my current wife online, couldn't be happier.
looking back, the teasing was likely because I was the only genuinely nice guy those girls knew and were upset their choices for dates were abysmal. it's all for the best though, I wouldn't have wanted to be around anyone who could treat me that way and be ok with it.
I'm pleased that the stigma against online dating has all but vanished.
Kudos to that handful of people who met online in the fucking 80s. Talk about meeting over niche interests.
Look at the date of the latest piece of data, and you have your answer
I'm personally thrilled not to be bound by the recommendations of my friends or family. Or work?! Gross!
People: "Oh hey there Digital Frontier, looking forward to the opportunity" The Permanently Online: "Get out of my swamp!"
I like the idea of dating apps, but I don't like the implementation or at least how they end up being used where the focus is entirely on visual attraction. I don't particularly think or care about looks; I'm attracted to personality. Most people have blank profiles and just a lot of pictures, so I either have to decide to not like a majority of profiles or like everything just to maybe get a chance to talk to someone.
And it doesn't help having BPD and not really having a solid identity to tell people who I am in a single block of limited characters. So when nobody even communicates when you actually match, it just makes the whole thing seem pointless and stupid.
Is it just me or is that graph all fucked up?
Well theres more then 0 percent that do meet multiple people throughout the year. So maybe still bullshit, but its a thought.
Meeting online seems like the best way to me. Better to date people you have stuff in common with rather than just picking your partners through circumstance.
I just like that it looks like a cuttlefish.
I'm kind of surprised that College has always been low
In earlier generations more people didn't even go to college. If you're in the 70% of silent generation that never went to college, you're certainly not going to meet a spouse there. Especially if you attended a university that was only for one gender.