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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday December 25 2018, @02:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the tender dept.

The 5 Years That Changed Dating

On the 20th anniversary of The New York Times' popular Vows column, a weekly feature on notable weddings and engagements launched in 1992, its longtime editor wrote that Vows was meant to be more than just a news notice about society events. It aimed to give readers the backstory on marrying couples and, in the meantime, to explore how romance was changing with the times. "Twenty years ago, as now, most couples told us they'd met through their friends or family, or in college," wrote the editor, Bob Woletz, in 2012. "For a period that ran into the late 1990s, a number said, often sheepishly, that they had met through personal advertisements."

But in 2018, seven of the 53 couples profiled in the Vows column met on dating apps. And in the Times' more populous Wedding Announcements section, 93 out of some 1,000 couples profiled this year met on dating apps—Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, Coffee Meets Bagel, Happn, and other specialized dating apps designed for smaller communities, like JSwipe for Jewish singles and MuzMatch for Muslims. The year before, 71 couples whose weddings were announced by the Times met on dating apps.

See also: Tinder and Bumble Are Hungry for Your Love


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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 25 2018, @03:16AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 25 2018, @03:16AM (#778239)

    All these Tinder-like Apps are Cancer for the society.

    I can give pass to some more in-depth services, that actually have real long term connections in mind, but most are just about a way for women to slut about, and ruin their long-term expectations of what is a husband material.

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  • (Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 25 2018, @10:09AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 25 2018, @10:09AM (#778296)

    Why should people in general and women in particular not have sex? Are you advocating gay male-on-male sex then? Even casual sex with perfect strangers? As long as it's two consenting adults who use protection, it's all good if you ask me. The ridiculous idea that a supreme being which has created the whole fucking universe in keenly interested in something people do in the bedroom is beyond moronic. Also, why do you think people must get married? Fuck marriage and church and all that brainwashing and shackling of people! Also, please don't capitalize Apps and Cancer.

    The only actual problem with Tinder is hooked to Facebook leading to all kind of privacy issues and Trump getting elected.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 27 2018, @05:28PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 27 2018, @05:28PM (#779049)

      The ridiculous idea that a supreme being which has created the whole fucking universe is keenly interested in something people do in the bedroom is beyond moronic.

      What... you mean trolling?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 27 2018, @05:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 27 2018, @05:26PM (#779047)

    Quick, Henry! The Incellotape!