I am Wrong & Concede to Travis et al About the Internet

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0.74% meet at college? What are these kids doing??? Go to a party and talk to some rando. you dorks!

TravelinMan wrote:0.74% meet at college?  What are these kids doing???   Go to a party and talk to some rando. you dorks!

Okay boomer

college is for casual hook-ups, and has been since 2000's, when my kids went to college

one met its spouse through on line dating, the other through their friends

Trapper Gus wrote:

TravelinMan wrote:0.74% meet at college?  What are these kids doing???   Go to a party and talk to some rando. you dorks!

Okay boomer

college is for casual hook-ups

What's the definition of a "couple" in the context of this graph?

Why is this a Bin topic?

Heat Miser wrote:Why is this a Bin topic?

Give it time. I'm sure some right wing nut job will complain about the lack of church meetings here soon enough.

Heat Miser wrote:Why is this a Bin topic?

It's where Travis & I have discussed it, but you can move it, I don't mind.

TravelinMan wrote:0.74% meet at college?  What are these kids doing???   Go to a party and talk to some rando. you dorks!

That's the one that got me.  Doesn't seem right to me.  I met my wife in college but that was in the mid 2000s and one of my close friends did too around the same time.  I get that it's not the biggest but you would think it would be higher by shear chance due to bringing together so many at a time when you can feasibly marry someone then or a little thereafter. Maybe something with the definition. Technically mine could be classified at college or via friends. Maybe they mean college classrooms?

People don’t get married at 24 anymore. Theyre all 30+ for the most part, especially if they went to college in the first place. They meet plenty of people in college, they don’t marry them.

Also let’s go ahead and not draw too much out of an attractive looking image that claims to know how people met their spouses in 1930, 1931, 1932, etc speaking of internet literacy

The wife and I had Many of the same friends in college. We never met until after college. We would laugh at how many friends we had in common, and we figured out we were at the same parties at the same time more than once.


She also knew some of my friends from Manistee, which was just bizarre, and her father at one point was going to buy a funeral home in Manistee Michigan and in iron River Michigan for his chain of funeral homes. The two places my family came from


The year before we got married, we were sitting on a beach in Manistee, and a guy named Pete came up to us that we used to call Buddha in high school. He looked at us and said how do you know each other.? My wife knew him from Texas when she would go down there in lobby For the natural gas industry. We all just started laughing


To top it off a girl I graduated with that lived three houses away in Manistee, married a boy from Southlake high school where my wife graduated from, that boys sister stood up in our wedding.


Really weird stuff like we were meant to meet each other

DWags wrote:The wife and I had Many of the same friends in college.  We never met until after college.  We would laugh at how many friends we had in common, and we figured out we were at the same parties at the same time more than once.  


She also knew some of my friends from Manistee, which was just bizarre, and her father at one point was going to buy a funeral home in Manistee Michigan and in iron River Michigan for his chain of funeral homes.   The two places my family came from  


The year before we got married, we were sitting on a beach in Manistee, and a guy named Pete came up to us that we used to call Buddha in high school. He looked at us and said how do you know each other.?  My wife knew him from Texas when she would go down there in lobby  For the natural gas industry.  We all just started laughing


To top it off a girl I graduated with that lived three houses away in Manistee, married a boy from Southlake high school where my wife graduated from, that boys sister stood up in our wedding.  


Really weird stuff like we were meant to meet each other  

Is your wife actually your sister?

To make matters weirder, a bunch of my family went to South lake high school.  When I was in Santa Monica California I met an actor that was from there that knew a bunch of my family members back in the day. I think he dated my mom's cousin

So you might be my uncle or parents cousins

sεяεηιτλ wrote:

TravelinMan wrote:0.74% meet at college?  What are these kids doing???   Go to a party and talk to some rando. you dorks!

That's the one that got me.  Doesn't seem right to me.  I met my wife in college but that was in the mid 2000s and one of my close friends did too around the same time.  I get that it's not the biggest but you would think it would be higher by shear chance due to bringing together so many at a time when you can feasibly marry someone then or a little thereafter. Maybe something with the definition. Technically mine could be classified at college or via friends. Maybe they mean college classrooms?

Watch the year as the graph progresses, the online group takes off in the middle of the 2000's and starts to dominate after 2010 to 2015.

Many of us on here "know" each other through the internet, BTW

Welp, my 2 kids in college aren't bringing any new girls home.
In fact they both make it sound like their social lives in college aren't all that...
Random party hopping isn't a thing anymore maybe?

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:
Also let’s go ahead and not draw too much out of an attractive looking image that claims to know how people met their spouses in 1930, 1931, 1932, etc speaking of internet literacy

It’s clearly not accurate. I added the numbers for 2024 and they equal 100% exactly - but orgy, seance and cockfight aren’t included.

Trapper Gus wrote:

sεяεηιτλ wrote:

That's the one that got me.  Doesn't seem right to me.  I met my wife in college but that was in the mid 2000s and one of my close friends did too around the same time.  I get that it's not the biggest but you would think it would be higher by shear chance due to bringing together so many at a time when you can feasibly marry someone then or a little thereafter. Maybe something with the definition. Technically mine could be classified at college or via friends. Maybe they mean college classrooms?

Watch the year as the graph progresses, the online group takes off in the middle of the 2000's and starts to dominate after 2010 to 2015.

Many of us on here "know" each other through the internet, BTW

I understand that, I just find it really hard to believe that when you bring so many sexually active young adults together that you only get 0.75% coupling. Just doesn't add up. Again I guess I don't know how mine would be classified. Met my wife "at college" but it was in the dorms, and she was a friend of a friend. I was playing Halo with the dorm server, with a head set on, she walked in with a low cut top on, we all drank and the rest is history.

sεяεηιτλ wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

Watch the year as the graph progresses, the online group takes off in the middle of the 2000's and starts to dominate after 2010 to 2015.

Many of us on here "know" each other through the internet, BTW

I understand that, I just find it really hard to believe that when you bring so many sexually active young adults together that you only get 0.75% coupling. Just doesn't add up. Again I guess I don't know how mine would be classified. Met my wife "at college" but it was in the dorms, and she was a friend of a friend. I was playing Halo with the dorm server, with a head set on, she walked in with a low cut top on, we all drank and the rest is history.

I'm thinking, for us college educated, that we have to step back and remember that a majority of the population does not go to college.

Trapper Gus wrote:

sεяεηιτλ wrote:

I understand that, I just find it really hard to believe that when you bring so many sexually active young adults together that you only get 0.75% coupling.  Just doesn't add up.  Again I guess I don't know how mine would be classified.  Met my wife "at college" but it was in the dorms, and she was a friend of a friend.  I was playing Halo with the dorm server, with a head set on, she walked in with a low cut top on, we all drank and the rest is history.  

I'm thinking, for us college educated, that we have to step back and remember that a majority of the population does not go to college.

I thought of that too, but 37.7% of USA holds a bachelor degree or higher.  Out of 333.3 million people in this country that is 125.654 million people.  That's about 2% of those in college find their lover with whom they will repeatedly lie to equal the approximate 0.75% overall.   Again, seems low considering it takes just 1 couple per 100 people to reach that number.

sεяεηιτλ wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

I'm thinking, for us college educated, that we have to step back and remember that a majority of the population does not go to college.

I thought of that too, but 37.7% of USA holds a bachelor degree or higher.  Out of 333.3 million people in this country that is 125.654 million people.  That's about 2% of those in college find their lover with whom they will repeatedly lie to equal the approximate 0.75% overall.   Again, seems low considering it takes just 1 couple per 100 people to reach that number.

I guess the question would be how many college students meet their SO online, even at the same school, verses in person first.

Trapper Gus wrote:

sεяεηιτλ wrote:

I thought of that too, but 37.7% of USA holds a bachelor degree or higher.  Out of 333.3 million people in this country that is 125.654 million people.  That's about 2% of those in college find their lover with whom they will repeatedly lie to equal the approximate 0.75% overall.   Again, seems low considering it takes just 1 couple per 100 people to reach that number.

I guess the question would be how many college students meet their SO online, even at the same school, verses in person first.

Do kids not go out to the bars anymore? Go to parties? Do they not join clubs or chat up attractive class mates???

Make America Sensations Again!

TravelinMan wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

I guess the question would be how many college students meet their SO online, even at the same school, verses in person first.

Do kids not go out to the bars anymore? Go to parties? Do they not join clubs or chat up attractive class mates???

Make America Sensations Again!

Looking at this article it appears that "the kids" have all become Libertarians.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/young-americans-theyre-tired-dating-111500593.html

TravelinMan wrote:

Heat Miser wrote:Why is this a Bin topic?

Give it time. I'm sure some right wing nut job will complain about the lack of church meetings here soon enough.

It is weird to me that church is so low especially early on

Trapper Gus wrote:

TravelinMan wrote:

Do kids not go out to the bars anymore? Go to parties? Do they not join clubs or chat up attractive class mates???

Make America Sensations Again!

Looking at this article it appears that "the kids" have all become Libertarians.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/young-americans-theyre-tired-dating-111500593.html

Hot + rich > just hot

aualum06 wrote:

TravelinMan wrote:

Give it time. I'm sure some right wing nut job will complain about the lack of church meetings here soon enough.

It is weird to me that church is so low especially early on

According to 1930 census people were moving from the cities to the suburbs, church might not have been the number one social gathering place?