Dating Sites - No Less ‘Real’ Than Communication Through Facebook
A few years ago I remember the looks of pity my friend Jennifer would get when she mentioned she’d been trying online dating. Admittedly, at the time, I too thought she must be desperate; couldn’t she meet anyone in ‘real’ life? Didn’t she meet people at work, or at parties?
I judged her actions and concluded that she must be either socially inept, or a bit weird. Of course, you know I wouldn’t be telling you all this if she had never met anyone…sure enough, she met someone online, they fell in love, and now they’re married.
Just one experience like this in your own circle of friends is enough to make you question your rushed judgments. So, could online dating really be the answer? Or, is best to just stick with the traditional method of meeting people, even though it hasn’t worked out for you yet?
Well, let’s say you’re occupied with work all day, you go out a couple of times a week with your usual group of friends, and the rest of the time you’re washing dishes, doing laundry, cleaning your home (or more likely a combination of Facebook, TV and surfing the net); realistically, how many new people are you going to come across?
Even if you managed to date, or even chat beyond pleasantries with, one new person a week, how many of those are likely to be a good match? Maybe one in a hundred, and that’s if you’re lucky. At that rate, it would take a couple of years to even meet someone that you feel really attracted to. Not bad, but, in the meantime, you’ve spent two years alone!
So, let’s say you look at these statistics and realize you need to up the odds of meeting someone. You do the logical thing and sign-up to a dating site that has millions of people in its database. Isn’t it still a bit like shopping for a laptop on Amazon?! Isn’t it less ‘real’ than bumping into someone at a party?
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