A couple of years ago I recall the looks of pity my friend Jennifer would get when she mentioned she’d been trying an online dating site. Admittedly, at the time, I thought she must be desperate. Couldn’t she meet anyone in ‘real’ life? Didn’t she meet people at work, or at parties?

 

I concluded that she must be either a bit weird or socially inept. 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 such as this in your own circle of friends can make you reconsider 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 busy all day at work, you go out twice a week with your usual group of friends (been there, dated them), 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 ‘dateable’ people are you going to come across?

 

Even if you met one new person a week, how many of those are likely to be a good match? One in a hundred? At that rate, it would take a couple of years to meet someone you could fall for.

 

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 search a database of millions of people on a dating site. 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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