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The New Rules: A Look at Modern Dating by the (Surprising) Numbers
How millennials are connecting, swiping and finding love.
It's no longer weird (or worse, desperate!) for a single lady to dabble in online dating. In 2017, it's just another way to meet someone, as likely to succeed as meeting through friends or stumbling into a meet-cute at the coffee shop. But how normal is it, and how normal are your own app habits? Check the numbers here to see how the country is clicking.
Sources: 1 Bumble data; 2 Skyn Condoms survey; 3 Pew Research Center; 4 Research Now; 5 University of Chicago; 6 U.S. census; 7 WalletHub; 8 Western University in Ontario; 9 National Center for Biotechnology Information
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