> the majority of modern couples meet online absolutely not. first of all, that chart is extremely unreliable and misleading. all of the data showing a surge in online dating is taken from a completely different source than the survey for all of the other data. the online dating data comes from a voluntary, self-reported survey that was entirely online only. so obviously the results are going to be very biased and skewed toward the kind of people who live on the internet and actually do online dating. also, they try to phrase it to make it seem like "relationships starting online" is entirely strangers meeting via dating apps.  in reality, most of it isn't on dating apps, it's people communicating through social media apps, because that's how most communication happens today.  most of those people met through mutual social connections and then started sending dms and snaps back and forth and eventually started a relationship. it would be like saying that most boomer relationships started on the phone.
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