How Couples Meet in the US
How Couples Meet in the US
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?
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I want to know which couples were meeting online in 1980.
Nerds.
Bulletin board systems (BBS) go back to 1980. Men have tried everything to get laid since the dawn of humanity. It checks out.
As someone who was using BBSs by 1984-ish, I can believe that people met this way. What I can't believe is that it was at a percentage high enough to be represented as anything above zero on that graph.
agreed. the first Arpanet message was sent in 1969, the first BBS in 1978. but shouldn't move this needle for many years.
I think this is the data collection info: https://data.stanford.edu/hcmst2017
The data are nationally representative, as the Ipsos KnowledgePanel recruits subjects into the panel by by Address Based Sampling, and subjects without Internet access at home are given Internet access.
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Response rate was 3510/6753=52% in 2017, 2107/2431= 87% in 2020, and 1722/2073=83% in 2022.
Half of all randomly selected subjects (by address) responded to their survey? I'd need to read a bit more about what exactly is going on there.
Meeting online before Internet:
"sorry, I got kicked offline temporarily"
"Ouch! Are you okay?"
Scientists probably.
They probably meant in line, like at Kmart or whatever other stores were still open then.
University nerds with early access to early forms of Internet would definitely never utilize such serious world changing technology to chat and dawdle amongst themselves to the point a connection would form. It's not like the entirety of video gaming was created by a nerd severely misusing an extremely expensive oscilloscope.
Back when it was called "computer dating" and people printed dot matrix pages out with their interests.
Not quite the 80s, but I met my wife online in ‘93 or ‘94. Initially it was just a passing conversation a few times. We met in earnest in ‘95. She does not remember the initial meeting, we were both using different screen names.
Don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day.
