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

Authors :: Rosenfeld, Michael J.
Thomas, Reuben J.
Hausen, Sonia
Source :: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 9/3/2019, Vol. 116 Issue 36, p17753-17758. 6p.
Publication Year :: 2019
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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Language :: English
ISSN :: 00278424
Volume :: 116
Issue :: 36
Database :: Academic Search Index
Journal :: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Publication Type :: Academic Journal
Accession number :: 138475270
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1908630116

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