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Dated. Past tense.
"Through friends" (which doesn't just mean dating your friends, it also means dating friends-of-friends you met at house parties, using friends as matchmakers etc.) was the plurality answer to "how did you meet your partner" from about 1950 to about 2010. In the current year, more than 60% of couples met online.
If that’s your thing, then I suppose there is a way to date online that doesn’t involve “window shopping,” like the Red Light District; but it requires maturity and discipline and not fawning over a lady or a hunk just because of the way they look. 60% seems wild to me. Anyone that remembers the early days of eHarmony undoubtedly knows someone who got mocked for the very idea of online dating. “That would never happen,” I remember people saying. Which was true at that time. The problem with those early platforms is they fell victim to the misfortune that pioneers get slaughtered and settles prosper. Had the smartphone came first and then these services followed along, the early ones may have bloomed into something more than they turned out to be. I could never date online. A friend of mine a few years ago pleaded with me to make a Tinder account and see what kind of hits I got. I made one for 48 hours and the first couple hours I had something like 7-8 hits of women contacting me. They were fairly attractive; all ethnic women (I’m Scandinavian). When I logged in one last time at the very end I had like 22 hits, but I deleted it after that. It just isn’t my thing.
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People are more reticent to be matchmakers now too.
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