This is really a monumental societal change.
3rd spaces are nearly completely destroyed, and online seems to be the main option for ppl now.
This is really a monumental societal change.
3rd spaces are nearly completely destroyed, and online seems to be the main option for ppl now.
Nearly everyone I dated or hooked up with, including my wife, were through friends. It was a great way to hang out and get to know each other before just doing one on one stuff.
I knew it was going to go down, but holy hell that is a massive drop and I don’t know if that means through friends wasn’t as good as I remember compared to online or if people just aren’t bothering with introducing people anymore.
I’ll bet that it’s due to the trend we’ve seen in the last couple of decades: fewer close friends, if any at all.
Or just more online friends, which (depending on how the researchers broke up the data) would shift things away from “through friends” and towards “online” instead.