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59% of Couples Now Meet Online, Surpassing Traditional Methods

Posted on January 7, 2025

Dating appsDAILY MAIL – By 2020–2022, 59% of couples met online, compared to just 12% in the early 2000s, marking a sharp rise in internet dating's dominance. Meeting through friends, which accounted for 33% of relationships in the 1960s, dropped to 15% in the 2020s. Workplace romances fell from 20% in the 1960s to just 7% today, while bars and restaurants, once responsible for 17% of introductions, have also declined. Online dating surpassed all other methods in the late 2010s when it overtook friends as the leading way couples meet.

by Oliver Price
See full article at Daily Mail

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