Every love story on this planet has its origins. Your eyes meeting on a subway train. A message you send and regret immediately. A hit-or-miss shot at chatting them up that depletes all your confidence reserves for a year in advance. This is as nerve-wracking as it can be, but at the end of the day, you gotta follow your heart.
Luckily, people on Twitter are giving us a glimpse of how exactly the initial spark happened and where it led them in the most heart-melting “How it started/How it ended” Twitter thread. From asking for her Snapchat and bonding over a love of dogs to bluntly admitting having a crush on her, these tweets are here to remind us that the first move can always become life-changing.
So next time you've spent too long thinking of pressing the "send" button, remember that "just do it" is not only for sports.
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In order to find out more about finding love online, Bored Panda spoke to Jessie, who started the viral twitter thread “How it started/How it ended” by posting a snap of the first tweets between herself and her partner Julia, which led to their beautiful love story. Jessie’s tweet caused a stir on Twitter with 466K likes, 41.2K retweets, and 16.3K quote tweets.
Jessie told us that both she and Julia had fan accounts for Pitch Perfect and she had seen Julia's tweets before and found her now-partner super funny. “My ‘hand wave’ was as smooth as I could be because I really wanted to be her friend,” the woman said.
Six months later, the couple met in person when Jessie flew to meet Julia across the world. “And right now, we're waiting for her to receive her visa so she can come live with me in the US,” she said in excitement.
Jessie suggested that everyone try their luck at finding love online because “it’s so easy to connect with people with similar mindsets and interests and I think the internet can be an amazing place for meeting your soulmate.” And we can’t agree more!
There’s never an easy way to find your other half you’d like to spend the rest of your life with (or at least, a part of it). But with the recent surge in the use of digital technology, more and more people are meeting their partners online instead of in school, at work, or through friends and family.
A recent study by sociologists Michael Rosenfeld and Sonia Hausen of Stanford University showed that between 1995 to 2017, meeting through friends saw the largest decline, from 33% of couples at the start of the period to just 20% at the end.
Moreover, the study revealed that 39% of heterosexual couples and 60% of same-sex couples in the US that ended up dating had first met online. The results showed that online dating has fortunately lost its initial stigma and has recently become by far the most common way that Americans find their partners.
Recently, Pew Research Center reported another interesting factor in online dating. The "How Couples Meet and Stay Together 2017" survey data found that couples who meet online are, in fact, more likely to be diverse in choosing a partner who is different from them in race or ethnicity, education, political party, or income.
Three-in-ten of those who say they met their partner online report that their partner is a different race or ethnicity, compared with 19% of those who met their partner offline. Moreover, those who met their partner online are also somewhat more likely to say that they and their partner do not identify with the same political party (46% vs. 40%).
And finally, people who met their other half online are more likely than those who met offline to identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (13% of those who met their partner online identify as LGBT, in comparison to 4% who met them offline.)
With a lot of these, we can't get any idea of the story in the beginning because there's a little bit of text with no context.
Is it just me or is "how it ended" a weird way of putting it? Like it makes me it's about break up/divorce
Perhaps "Where it led"
Yeah I thought it was gonna be about divorce nice to see it was the opposite!
I know, it sounds a bit ominous.
Is it just me or are they trying to push a gay agenda just a touch here?
Oh god, who cares! Just let people be happy! It has no effect on you.
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree. No 'agenda' is being promoted. It's just an article about couples. Are articles with all straight couples pushing a hetero agenda?
There are both 'gay' couples and hetero couples in this article, how could it be "pushing and agenda"?
@Tres D, are you really saying that?? Let gay couples have the floor FOR ONCE. Straight people can afford to step back for one article online.
The gay couples are WAY over represented
Because there are A LOT of lgbtq alphabet soup couples posted
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Maria Briggs -
No one is pushing anything. Calm yourself, gay isn't contagious.
Guys guys guys, I’m straight and Christian. I’m happy for them, if they make each other happy, who are we to hate on it? Besides, it’s better to be gay and love each other than be homophobic and miserable
FIVE MONTHS LATER AND I’M ASEXUAL (still Christian) AND POLYSEXUAL AS HEEEEEEECK
HAHAHA NO IM NOT BTW
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fortunately...
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Or... isn't it sad that gay people need to use social media to come in contact because there's still people that just can't get tired of showing how homophobic they are?
Def pushing an agenda
It's just you.
We thought it , you said it
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Although that's have rights etc from government, doesn't mean people accept them. It's reality. And they are over represented.
Maybe we fight so hard to get seen is no one wants to look so we need to make ourselves noticed. Take a look at human history. We, queer folk, get shunned, stepped on, punished, shamed, and even killed for being ourselves. We are just now, FINALLY, getting seen, and that's not over representation. It's respect that's long overdue.
I guess that most het couples don't see the need to tell everyone that they are together. Don't take those who defend the Gay couples personally. It DOES look strange, but it's just what it is. They are still trying to normify their lives to themselves by pushing it out there and asking us to be positive about it for them.
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they're failing.
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Does that mean that you're fighting against all