Facebook has unleashed a new dating service
It could return dating to its pre-internet ways
IN AMERICA it is no longer merely acceptable to meet your romantic partner on the internet. It is the norm. The latest data from a long-running survey by researchers at Stanford, released this summer, shows that 40% of new heterosexual couples met online in 2017, far more than at bars, through friends or at work. For gay couples the proportion is even higher, at 60%.
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United States September 14th 2019
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- What a Republican victory in North Carolina means for 2020
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- New rules in California could reshape the gig economy
- A deadly outbreak casts a dark cloud over e-cigarettes
- Facebook has unleashed a new dating service
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