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‘As a more efficient market, the Internet tends to displace other markets for partners,’ Rosenfeld explained.The fact that the average of marriage has inflated in the last 50 odd years also plays a significant role in shifting the graph lines.

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Similarly, co-workers, college peers, neighbours, primary/secondary school classmates and people known through church no longer play a key matchmaking role for heterosexual couples.

Nowadays there are only three ways you can reliably expect to meet your partner – through friends (historically this has always been a leading way of forming romantic connections), at a bar/restaurant (again, always relevant – booze being a winning social lubricant). Since the late 90s the likelihood of meeting a partner via online dating has spiked in an unprecedented fashion.

Today there are only really three ways you can expect to meet your partner and they all place no importance on traditional modes of matchmaking (which relied on fishing in a fairly limited pool stocked with people you knew through education and family – the prospect of which would strike most millennials as quaint, at best).

This graphic, illustrates data from a research project conducted over seven decades by sociologist Michael Rosenfeld.