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?

  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    1 month ago

    Bulletin board systems (BBS) go back to 1980. Men have tried everything to get laid since the dawn of humanity. It checks out.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      12·
      1 month ago

      As someone who was using BBSs by 1984-ish, I can believe that people met this way. What I can’t believe is that it was at a percentage high enough to be represented as anything above zero on that graph.

      • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        agreed. the first Arpanet message was sent in 1969, the first BBS in 1978. but shouldn’t move this needle for many years.

      • Rolando@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        I think this is the data collection info: https://data.stanford.edu/hcmst2017

        The data are nationally representative, as the Ipsos KnowledgePanel recruits subjects into the panel by by Address Based Sampling, and subjects without Internet access at home are given Internet access.

        …

        Response rate was 3510/6753=52% in 2017, 2107/2431= 87% in 2020, and 1722/2073=83% in 2022.

        Half of all randomly selected subjects (by address) responded to their survey? I’d need to read a bit more about what exactly is going on there.