<story><title>Disintermediating friends: Online dating displaces other ways of meeting (2019) [pdf]</title><url>https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_et_al_Disintermediating_Friends.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bpodgursky</author><text>The drop of &amp;quot;met in college&amp;quot; is the weirdest one to me.  Isn&amp;#x27;t that where most people meet?  Am I living in a weird bubble?</text></item><item><author>joshz404</author><text>It took me a bit to see the hiding in plain sight trajectory of &amp;quot;Met in a bar or restaurant&amp;quot;.  Everything but it and of course the dominate Met Online, are decreasing.  Curious.</text></item><item><author>arkj</author><text>There is a very interesting chart at the last page of the pdf showing how heterosexual couples have met over the past years.&lt;p&gt;Here is a direct link to the chart as an image, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;thebrowser.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;size&amp;#x2F;w1000&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;image-10.jpeg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;thebrowser.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;size&amp;#x2F;w1000&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;ima...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majormajor</author><text>Probably an aspect of people using apps while in college, and ending up in that bucket instead.&lt;p&gt;A graph of &amp;quot;age when met&amp;quot; for current couples would be interesting, if today&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;final&amp;quot; couples meet at a later age than in the past because people don&amp;#x27;t want to settle down as early, you&amp;#x27;ll have less school couples.&lt;p&gt;We also need a graph of &amp;quot;number of relationships still around started by year&amp;quot; - if fewer relationships started in 2018 are still extant compared to ones in 2014, that&amp;#x27;s gonna skew numbers too.</text></comment>
<story><title>Disintermediating friends: Online dating displaces other ways of meeting (2019) [pdf]</title><url>https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_et_al_Disintermediating_Friends.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bpodgursky</author><text>The drop of &amp;quot;met in college&amp;quot; is the weirdest one to me.  Isn&amp;#x27;t that where most people meet?  Am I living in a weird bubble?</text></item><item><author>joshz404</author><text>It took me a bit to see the hiding in plain sight trajectory of &amp;quot;Met in a bar or restaurant&amp;quot;.  Everything but it and of course the dominate Met Online, are decreasing.  Curious.</text></item><item><author>arkj</author><text>There is a very interesting chart at the last page of the pdf showing how heterosexual couples have met over the past years.&lt;p&gt;Here is a direct link to the chart as an image, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;thebrowser.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;size&amp;#x2F;w1000&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;image-10.jpeg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;thebrowser.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;size&amp;#x2F;w1000&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;ima...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bilbo0s</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Am I living in a weird bubble?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;p&gt;Though I would suspect that if you broke each of these meeting methods out and analyzed the failure rates for each, &amp;quot;met in college&amp;quot; would be one of the best 3 methods in terms of success rate. I would suspect &amp;quot;met in church&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;met in college&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;met online&amp;quot; to be the methods leading to the most long term success. Further, if you asked about whether there was marital &lt;i&gt;satisfaction&lt;/i&gt; as opposed to simply a marriage that didn&amp;#x27;t end in divorce, I would suspect &amp;quot;met in college&amp;quot; to be the best overall method.&lt;p&gt;The only better methods of meeting, I would suspect, are not mentioned here. For instance, a lot of successful marriages likely come from people who were in the peace corps together. Shared hardship and passion kind of thing.&lt;p&gt;Just my intuition though. No data to back any of that up.</text></comment>