This is pretty wild to see, but also not surprising.
It’s interesting to think about how couples used to meet from the perspective of Web of Trust: couples used to meet through their personal Web of Trust (family, school, friends, church, etc), but now it’s primarily online.
Not surprising that divorce rates have increased over the same time period.
No WoT >> no social vetting >> worse couple pairing https://v.nostr.build/iRBvMIDmSMRGPknY.mp4
Correlation does not imply Causation
Too many choices often leads to dissatisfaction.
Interesting
Yuppp, my boyfriend has been my brother’s friend since middle school, he was loved by all my family before I even knew him. It has worked remarkably 🥰
I was introduced to Carla by a guy who had known her since middle school. He was on my dorm floor and we quickly got really close. I still remember the first time he took me to meet his friends from his home town… “you’re going to like these girls, but you’re going to love Carla.”
He was right.
He was a groomsman at our wedding, and it’s safe to say his introduction to Carla was the most pivotal moment of my life.
Web of Trust matters.
People also have forgotten how to make friends outside of Internet.
Younger generations are losing their offline communication skills and it can’t be good.
Divorce rates in the US have been declining since their peak in 1979.
Because so have marriages
There is a massive opportunity to use Nostr to build a kind of dating app where people can own their own data. I’d have to think about it for a while for how exactly it could be build, but someone’s gonna kill it with this idea at some point.
Much like Amazon reviews of 55lb drums of lube, wolf shirts, and sugar fee gummy bears, it needs to have public date reviews so we can have endless reading enjoyment.
Friends of friends, thats how my wife and I met 🫂
The internet is a very powerful tool. use it wisely, it can generate all kinds of opportunity.
Wow, I’m fucked! 🤣
Bitcoin fixes this!
Bitcoin meet-ups appear under represented.
This is why I only date my employees
Cool
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Crazy to watch that online bar jump from bottom to top, and likely won't see it come down again.
