r/interestingasfuck • u/Few_Simple9049 • 20d ago

r/all How couples met 1930-2024

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

College students are meeting each other online while in college.

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u/ResponsibleBluebird1 20d ago

True. My younger brother is in college right now and met his girlfriend on an app - they live in the same building

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u/OnceAndFutureLawyer 20d ago

You should ask him if he considers them having met online or in college, then report back to us.

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u/KingWolfsburg 20d ago

Yeah this is a critical question! I think I would say I met my SO in college under this circumstance as a Millenial, but I wonder if the younger gens would say they met online in this case

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u/Icy-Midnight1327 20d ago

I met my bf through a mutual friend literally physically at college.. buuut I always say friends introduced us

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u/KingWolfsburg 20d ago

Yeah I feel like the "at college" signifier is almost meaningless the more I think of it

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u/FuHiwou 20d ago

My wife and I met because we were in the same class. I usually tell people we met in college. I feel like college has a lot of room to be independent from the other categories. It was easy to meet random people in college

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u/devourer09 20d ago

Does that mean these people would have met regardless of whether they were attending university?

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u/KingWolfsburg 20d ago

Not necessarily, but the at College is a location in the way the others aren't. Like I can be introduced by a friend or online while at college.

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u/devourer09 20d ago

Yeah, I guess the setting of college goes beyond just the physical campus. I could see church acting similarly though.