Timeline of online dating

"Everybody was letting it all hang out in other ways," said Raymond Shapiro, a business manager for the New York Review of Books, "so suddenly it was okay to display oneself in print.'"[2]A 2017 survey by Michael J. Rosenfeld, updated in 2021, tracked the change in how Americans meet their spouses and romantic partners since 1940.[21][22] A Pew Research study[23] corroborated these findings, reporting that 28% of straight and 52% of LGB Americans have used dating apps or sites.Similar trends were noted in a 2021 study by Morning Consult,[24] which showed that the percentage of individuals who met their partners through online dating increased from 10% in 2018 to 13% in 2021, potentially influenced by the Covid-19 pandemic.A multinational study by YouGov[25] also revealed that the average percentage of couples meeting through an app across 17 countries was 8%, with the U.S. standing at the same rate.
The continued rise of meeting online for heterosexual couples
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