Disintermediating Your Friends: How Online Dating in the United States Displaces Other Ways of Meeting

Overview

Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 2019 Aug 22

PMID 31431531

Citations 18

Authors

Michael J Rosenfeld

Reuben J Thomas

Sonia Hausen

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Abstract

We present data from a nationally representative 2017 survey of American adults. For heterosexual couples in the United States, meeting online has become the most popular way couples meet, eclipsing meeting through friends for the first time around 2013. Moreover, among the couples who meet online, the proportion who have met through the mediation of third persons has declined over time. We find that Internet meeting is displacing the roles that family and friends once played in bringing couples together.

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