The stigma of swiping right for love appears to be well and truly gone.
More people meet their partner online than anywhere else and it has been that way since 2010, new data reveals.
A third of Australians who met their partners this year did so online.
The finding comes from the ABC's Australia Talks National Survey of more than 54,000 Australians.
Respondents were asked if they had a partner, and if so, when and how they met.
The time-honoured approach of meeting someone who's already been vetted by friends was the second-most common method (21 per cent), followed by 13 per cent who met at work.
Getting together with a colleague, or a friend's mate, has been decreasing since the beginning of the millennium.
It's a stark contrast to how people coupled up before the 1970s — back then, a third met through friends and 16 per cent at work.
Marrying a childhood sweetheart, being set up with a family friend, or meeting at the church social have been falling since the 1970s.
So has marrying the boy or girl next door — while 7 per cent got together with neighbours before 1970, now only 1 per cent do.
The Australia Talks National Survey asked 54,000 Australians about their lives and what keeps them up at night. Use our interactive tool to see the results and how their answers compare with yours.
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