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https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_et_al_Disintermediating_Friends.pdf
Soon enough online will be pretty much the only way to meet women. Better invest in a good camera, a good lighting system, and most importantly plastic surgery. "just go outside bro" won't cut it anymore after a few years.
About 65% of same‐sex couples who met in 2017 met online, compared to about 39% for heterosexual couples. The 65% of recently formed same‐sex couples who met online is very similar to what Rosenfeld and Thomas (2012; Figure 1) reported for same‐sex couples in 2009 using the 2009 data alone. As the pattern for same‐sex couples has not changed as much, we focus here on the changes in how heterosexual couples have met since 2009.
The most traditional ways of meeting for heterosexual couples, i.e. meeting through family, meeting through church, meeting in the neighborhood, and meeting in primary or secondary school have all been declining sharply since 1940.
In 2009, meeting through friends was by far the most common way heterosexual couples met, and this had been true for 60 years since the immediate post World War II period. Since 2009, however, meeting through friends has declined sharply, and meeting online has continued to grow. As a result of the decline in meeting through friends and the rise in meeting online, heterosexual couples in the U.S. are now much more likely to meet online than to meet any other way. We identify 2013 as the approximate year when meeting online surpassed meeting through friends for heterosexual couples in the U.S. Previous research with the HCMST surveys showed that breakup rates were not influenced by how couples met, so the retrospective nature of the HCMST “how did you meet” q
Soon enough online will be pretty much the only way to meet women. Better invest in a good camera, a good lighting system, and most importantly plastic surgery. "just go outside bro" won't cut it anymore after a few years.
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