... 2009, the Internet was the third most likely way of meeting,6 after the intermediation of friends, and approximately tied with the bars, restaurants and other public places.7 With the rise of ... Rosenfeld and Thomas, Searching for a Mate P.17 number). If the friend was searching a dating website, and discovered the partner’s profile there, and emailed the profile to the respondent, then the ... the other hand, the Internet partly displaces traditional ways of meeting, then we would expect to see all the traditional ways of meeting decline during the Internet era, therefore: Hypothesis...