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Algorithms, and not friends and family, are now the go-to matchmaker for people looking for love, Stanford sociologist Michael Rosenfeld has found. Online dating has become the most common way for Americans to find romantic partners. In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Rosenfeld found that heterosexual couples are more likely to meet a romantic partner online than through personal contacts and connections. Since , traditional ways of meeting partners — through family, in church and in the neighborhood — have all been in decline, Rosenfeld said. Rosenfeld, a lead author on the research and a professor of sociology in the School of Humanities and Sciences , drew on a nationally representative survey of American adults and found that about 39 percent of heterosexual couples reported meeting their partner online, compared to 22 percent in Sonia Hausen, a graduate student in sociology, was a co-author of the paper and contributed to the research.

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Not so long ago, nobody met a partner online. Then, in the s, came the first dating websites. A new wave of dating websites, such as OKCupid, emerged in the early s. And the arrival of Tinder changed dating even further. Today, more than one-third of marriages start online.

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YouTube: How a Failed Dating Website Created Success

YouTube started as a dating website. Instead, the three PayPal employees who started the video-sharing website became millionaires, and YouTube has changed the Internet. More video content is uploaded to YouTube in a day period than the three major U.

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