It’s been trending this way for years, but seeing it graphed out like this is shocking.

What do you think are the effects of this drastic change?

  • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    The number of people that met on BBS would probably not even register as a line on that graph, lol. You are a rare gem, good sir or madam.

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      1 month ago

      I wasn’t meaning to say that my situation itself was representative, just that most people see that line and think dating sites, and that’s probably not completely correct. There are lots of online venues, like games, that aren’t dating sites, but I didn’t know what the breakdown is.

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      1 month ago

      People who randomly throw out acronyms expecting everyone to know them are TEBM.