>It is one of the most profound changes in life in the US, and in much of the rich world. Instead of meeting our partners in school, at work, or through friends and family, many of us now meet them online.
>Some 39% of heterosexual couples that got together in the US in 2017 met online, according to a recently released study (pdf) by sociologists Michael Rosenfeld and Sonia Hausen of Stanford University and Reuben Thomas of University of New Mexico. This was also the case for more than 60% of same-sex couples that year. That makes online dating by far the most common way that American couples now meet. The data also show that between 1995 to 2017, meeting through friends saw the largest decline, from 33% of couples at the start of the period to just 20% at the end.
>“It used to be that finding a partner is something one did with their community,” says Thomas. “Now it is basically an individual quest.” This has also created a $4 billion-plus industry to help people on that quest (paywall). Thomas and his counterparts’ research paper is currently under review for publication in an academic journal.
Ouch. This can only mean every higher hypergamy as looks matter more when relationships are formed online. Young men will have less and less sex and the 'have sex' meme will be more relevant than ever.
Thanks God I'm gay and don't need to put up with this shit
Michael Harris
agree lets meet up and have buttsecks
Jordan Myers
My pingas is available only for my lifetime partner, those unprincipled faggots give gay men a bad name and I frankly hope they'll end up like freddie mercury for having been degenerate menwhores their whole lives.
>This can only mean every higher hypergamy as looks matter more when relationships are formed online. Young men will have less and less sex and the 'have sex' meme will be more relevant than ever. looks matter way more when you approach a girl in person online you can butter them up first so you can overcome both looking below average and being socially off putting as well it gives men the advantage as women tend to be more honest than men when chatting online or if not honest then more transparent
Christian Clark
Pity online dating is so fucking cancerous.
Lucas Garcia
I've met about 30% of my ex-girlfriends online
I met my current gf on tinder. the one before that I met at work.
Anthony Ward
fpbp
Oliver Gomez
Based and same
Owen Howard
Never read a more bluepilled post in my life. Your picture is the number 1 determinate of your success with online dating. All experiments show it to be so.
Jordan Garcia
>27% met in a bar or restaurant Great the main alternative to online dating is still picking up an alcoholic slampig barfly that's been drunkenly passed around between everyone that's bought her a drink.
Aiden Cruz
kys
Luke Ramirez
It's easier to get a date while I lay in bed jerking off at profile pics, than actually having to get up, go out, and spend money I don't have because I don't get paid a livable wage.
Jacob Ortiz
nevermind this isnt an ad still kys though
Austin Martinez
Only weirdos meet online, bars are for trashy people. The church is our last salvation. Its time to return to g*d.
Elijah Jackson
in 5 minutes you can send out 50 messages and at least 5 of them will talk to you they won't all be fat or ugly
Aaron Ward
complete opposite
looks matters less irl because your confidence, personality, and humor are way easier to show. online you have a photo and text. how you look in those photos matters a lot.
Bentley Walker
I met my wife of eight years online, in a virtual world. Never expected that but there you go.
>looks matter way more when you approach a girl in person
lol wow
this is the correct opinion.
>how you look in those photos matters a lot.
and you can use the angles and photoshop to make yourself look better. literally every single female on these sites/apps does this.
Gavin Reed
>looks matters less irl because your confidence, personality, and humor are way easier to show. this is true if you look and act like joey tribbiani i'm talking from the perspective of someone who's in the bottom 30% looks and personality wise
Isaac Fisher
What are gay hook up apps Everyone is guilty
Angel Martin
I have to work 2 jobs in order to just cut it.
Cameron Richardson
If you knew how life is hard a a heterosexual man... I'm quite ok looking, quite fit, good job in finance, speak 4 languages, I have culture and good manners, and I can't find a woman to settle with. Most my relationships ended with the girls showing to be crazy, one of them even threatened to accuse me of rape.
Sexual morality has been dead in this country for a long time. All the online dating degeneracy does is make it easier for some people to be the same degenerates they otherwise are. The fact is that you have coinflip odds of divorce unless you wait until marriage (and your partner does the same)--the "40% of couples" will not last. I'd say no more than a few percent even make it as far as marriage to begin with.
Also >Rosenfeld
Logan Gray
Hook up is synonym for vapid faggots who have nothing but sex going themselves. The best way to get to date someone online would be to start from an hobby of yours and find out people who share your interests instead of blindly looking for a quick fuck in a chad dick delivery app. I can't speak for the girls because they're mostly taken, whereas the ones who are single might be mentally ill or socially inept, but there are a lot of lonely guys out there who'd be willing to be in a long term relationship.
>this is true if you look and act like joey tribbiani
jesus dude, you are literally retarded if you think joey is some sort of attractive alpha male type. he was an annoying faggot that nobody liked...that was his character. do you have autism?
>i'm talking from the perspective of someone who's in the bottom 30% looks and personality wise
well then if you're literally a troll with a shit personality who spends his whole day on mongolian fingerpainting boards, do the rest of the human race a favor and kys yourself asap as possible
Gabriel Baker
But i am also hererosexual, I draw sexual attraction out of the attention people give me and make no difference between sexes. My standards are practically nonexistent unless it boils down to bears and all that disgusting shit. I've been in a LDR with a latina for two entire years and the only thing I got out of it is hell. Things went to wreck quite quickly, she started to hate my guts more and more despite being outstandingly loyal one way or the other. Nevertheless the whole thing was bound to be short-lived, she turned oftentimes irascible and even the slightest joke I'd crack would get under her skin if it had an ounce of political incorrectness to it. At some point I grew weary of her shit and decided to be through with her. She's probably hooked up with the local basedboy in her town now, and I couldn't care less. Women strike me as either hollow husks devoid of personalities or tyrannical whores sticking out like sore thumbs, at least guys still have a shred of empathy and a scrap of personality I must say.