Disintermediating your friends: How online dating in the United States displaces other ways of meeting | Zendy

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Disintermediating your friends: How online dating in the United States displaces other ways of meeting

Author(s) -

Michael Rosenfeld,

Reuben J. Thomas,

Sonia Hausen

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

proceedings of the national academy of sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011

H-Index - 771

eISSN - 1091-6490

pISSN - 0027-8424

DOI - 10.1073/pnas.1908630116

Subject(s) - the internet , psychology , mediation , internet privacy , political science , computer science , world wide web , law

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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