Around 40% of American couples now first meet online

dachyals · 2019-04-29T19:18:30+00:00

"Online Dating isn't real life"

ButterfingersBiden · 2019-04-29T21:15:38+00:00

Its so over.

Njere · 2019-04-29T18:34:16+00:00

Guys, the cold approach is dead

HeartofDestiny · 2019-05-03T01:12:49+00:00

I still remember when I was younger and online dating was considered for losers, it's amazing how quickly people change their tune.

The issue with this is it basically means ugly men are completely fucked which is why you see the rise in the incels.

All average- chad looking guys have to do is download Tinder and swipe, it might take days, maybe years but eventually they will all get girlfriends from it.

Meanwhile, ugly guys like me who have been using online since it was taboo can't get matches or dates, If we try cold approach, that fails, cold approach is now much more taboo than online dating, not only that but being ugly means cold approach won't work anyway,

So the only option is the whole social circle max aka making many female friends but the issue is these females have access to so many guys outside their circles aswell as other guys in them it makes it increasing difficult for ugly guys to score even one girlfriend.

Basically this is the worst time in human history to be an ugly male.

There will be a rise in inceldom and I can see poor genetics like mine being scrubbed out of the gene pool at a faster rate.

Carkudo · 2019-04-29T19:59:59+00:00

Edit two weeks later: The 40% figure includes non-romantic ways of meeting online (e.g. in chats, games and social networks). It's around 25% through online dating in particular:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPillScience/comments/bmxu2n/around_24_of_us_couples_formed_between_2015_and/

This seems like a high figure, but it does perfectly fit into the exponential growth curve in this graph (also based on HCMST).

https://i.imgur.com/Hp0JTJx.png

There was another survey done in 2017 of engaged people, finding that only for 19% percent of people, online dating was the most common way how they met their spouses or spouses-to-be. Not sure how this difference can be explained. Maybe online daters are just a lot less likely to marry, or maybe it's the difference between "most common way" vs "how they first met".

https://www.bustle.com/p/how-do-most-couples-meet-these-days-online-is-the-top-way-people-are-finding-their-spouses-today-survey-finds-3344742

Also not clear how this squares with this study which is also based on HCMST, which found the following percentages of all dates that were met through phone apps:

8% of dates of single men
22% of dates of single women
20% of dates of non-single men
16% of dates of non-single women

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95540-7_6 (Rosenfeld 2018)

I'm currently too busy to look more into this.

Though, remember that this is the population at large. The percentage of online daters is possibly even higher in some subcultures, for example very progressive or technological ones.

Njere · 2019-04-29T18:33:41+00:00

Direct link to the research

UltimateCurryCel · 2019-04-30T06:30:59+00:00

I thought only the top 20% of men are successful with online dating?

6395251 · 2019-04-29T23:32:52+00:00

Capitalism kills everything.

Njere · 2019-05-10T14:53:03+00:00

This figure includes non-romantic ways of meeting online (e.g. in chats, games and social networks). It's around 25% through online dating in particular:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPillScience/comments/bmxu2n/around_24_of_us_couples_formed_between_2015_and/

GallaPlacidia69 · 2019-04-30T00:59:53+00:00

I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I haven’t slept with a non-tinder/bumble girl in...fuck, a year and a half

Title	Around 40% of American couples now first meet online
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