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re: 60% of all couples met on the internet in 2024...
Posted on 12/26/24 at 9:17 am to PeteRose
Posted on 12/26/24 at 9:17 am to PeteRose
I met my now wife online in 2008. I felt weird telling people we met online back then. There was still that stigma that only weird outcasts were meeting people online.
Now its almost a given.
Now its almost a given.
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Posted on 12/26/24 at 9:18 am to Who_Dat_Tiger
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Wonder how much worse it can get now that everyone finds a mate online
People still spend time with each other before deciding to get married
What difference does it make how they made initial contact?
Posted on 12/26/24 at 9:19 am to CocomoLSU
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Do they specify internet vs. dating app? I'd be curious to see a breakdown of that.
Seems like a distinction without a difference.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 9:23 am to GetCocky11
Exactly, it’s not like we had an email relationship and then said hey let’s get married. We chatted for maybe 2 or 3 days before we went on our first date and then we never opened the app again.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 9:27 am to RollTide1987
Only Fans?
Posted on 12/26/24 at 9:31 am to RollTide1987
met my now wife of 11 years playing world of Warcraft - met her 13 years ago, took time to get to know each other and now married for 11.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 9:55 am to GetCocky11
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Why?
Yeah, I don't get why it's "terrifying" either. I look at the online platform as similar to physically meeting some random stranger in a bar.
I met my fiance online. We talked for a bit and dated like I would have someone I met either through friends or at a bar.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:09 am to Voldemortnose
Having the Larry Leo dating site has disaster written all over it
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:12 am to Who_Dat_Tiger
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Divorce rates are already around 50% which seems astronomical
Divorce rates are down with younger people. They get married later and live together before marriage
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:13 am to RollTide1987
Met my wife briefly at a party in NYC while I was living in MS. Had completely forgotten about her over the next few years. Fast forward to 2011, I moved to NYC and joined a dating app. App matched us and we didn’t realize we had met in 2008 until 6 months into dating. Married over 12 years now.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:13 am to RollTide1987
I met my gal because I worked with her brother, and he set us up because he was tired of hearing both of us complain about being lonely
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:16 am to RollTide1987
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1995
Pssshhh bing ping bong beep ssssshhhhh ding pong…
“A/S/L?”
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:18 am to BluegrassBelle
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Yeah, I don't get why it's "terrifying" either. I look at the online platform as similar to physically meeting some random stranger in a bar.
This.
I met my wife and spent my entire dating life in the age prior to social media (or at least just in the very early stages of it). So, for me, online dating was the domain of weirdos, and we made fun of those who used dating websites.
But the world has since changed. Social media has become ubiquitous. It's no longer a "foreign" concept. Frankly, it probably gives people a better opportunity to "vet" dates as opposed to just meeting someone in a bar and having to go on multiple dates to figure out if they were right or wrong.
Hopefully I never have to get back into the dating world. But if so, I could see myself using social media to do so...even though it was a completely foreign concept when I was actually in that stage of my life.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:19 am to BluegrassBelle
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Yeah, I don't get why it's "terrifying" either. I look at the online platform as similar to physically meeting some random stranger in a bar.
Same. I don't view it as that strange either. Having an entire online relationship is weird, but having a quick exchange and then meeting up for dinner or something isn't that different from meeting in person at a bar or something IMO. Its worked fine for me.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:20 am to RollTide1987
That's how me and my wife met back in 2000. AOL chatroom.
Went on our first date in April 2001. Celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary in October.
Went on our first date in April 2001. Celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary in October.
This post was edited on 12/26/24 at 10:35 am
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:23 am to Who_Dat_Tiger
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Divorce rates are already around 50% which seems astronomical. Wonder how much worse it can get now that everyone finds a mate online or if it actually swings the other way since you are able to be more selective with more fish in the sea now
Divorce rates continue to come down
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:23 am to RollTide1987
Met my wife in an AOL chatroom in 98. We were both reluctant to meet up, but we both had friends who wanted to hang out. It got really weird when her roommate started doing sketchy AOL booty calls.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:26 am to RollTide1987
quote:in a world of instant gratification, online dating offers that. Instead of slowly meeting someone (coffee, dinner $$$ , movies, meeting up, yada yada yada) only to find out 3 months later they believe that aliens will come to take humanity away in 2027, you can find that out with a profile search then politely move on.
60% of all couples met on the internet in 2024...
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:26 am to RollTide1987
Considering everyone is online these days I’m not surprised. I met my ex wife the old fashioned way then broke up and rekindled on Snapchat years later.
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:34 am to UltimaParadox
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Divorce rates continue to come down
This actually makes sense.
Before the Internet:
Here's a random person I bumped into in public. We have 3 things in common, that's good enough, right? Let's get married. Why is the divorce rate so high?
After the Internet:
There is a sea of people to pick from. Sure, there are lots of options out there with 3-4 things in common with me, but after being selective, I've found someone with 10 things in common with me. I've never met anyone who was as good of a match. Let's get married. Hey, the divorce rate is dropping.
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