Probably, but I mean when 2 people sit across from each other for a minute or so then circulate; if both are casually interested, they trade contact info.
"A surprise for the evening came from the speed dating activity hosted by the Counseling Services. “It was very popular and packed the whole time,” said Kala Kau, Student Life vice president."
I remember a show back in the very late 1950s, a Sci-Fi parody/drama, featuring a hill-billy family in outer space, and they'd visit a new planet every week . . .
Well, in one of them, they were on a planet where robots controlled everything, including flushing the toilet, and a secondary character had a conversation in which a native of that week's planet said something like (I tried to find it on YouTube so I could quote it exactly, but the search failed...), "I don't do internet searches because it's lonelier than asking online."