Your Online Dating Efforts Are Most Likely Not Going to Work
Don’t tell Tinder, but most 18 to 34-year-olds meet their significant others in real life, according to a recent survey.
Mic asked over 2,000 people how they met their current partners, and more met “through friends in common’’ than any other option, at close to 39 percent. Another 22 percent revealed that couples met “out in a social setting.’’ Less than 10 percent of those surveyed said they met through an online dating app or social media.
But even if people initially meet this way, does that always turn into a relationship? When asked “How did your current relationship start?’’ almost 40 percent said they were “platonic friends first.’’ Less than 25 percent said their romantic relationship bloomed out of a casual, physical one, and 35 percent of responders ended up in their current coupling through a “series of formal dates.’’
This doesn’t sound good for online dating, but that medium has still garnered a lot of attention lately: There are lists of the best dating sites for college kids and an uproar around Tinder’s ageist pricing. Dating apps are now being developed specifically so you can meet someone “familiar,’’ like Hinge, which connects mutual Facebook friends. That’s almost like being set up by your buds, right?
Mic elaborates on their findings with quotes about the value of trusting your friends’ judgement and how meeting in a natural way is less stressful. So maybe there doesn’t need to be a separate search tag for “millennial dating,’’ because kids these days are meeting their significant others in the same, good old-fashioned way everyone else has through history.
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