More than 11% of American internet users visit online dating sites (PEW Internet Research - www.pewinternet.org).

That’s a lot of people. What do they know that you don’t?

== Convenience

Online Dating is a lot less time consuming than going to parties, bars, picnics, and that ongoing nightmare of blind dates and family introductions. Typical social events let you meet only and actually have a chance of connecting with one or two people. And while you’re spending time with a “Near Miss/ter”, the person you should meet may be four feet away but may as well be on the Moon.

Online dating lets you search for people you should meet and more efficiently weed out “Near Miss/ters” without having to overlook people you really want to connect with.

== Accuracy

Yes, we all know about horror stories of connecting with someone using online dating only to discover, when meeting face-to-face, some “exaggeration” on their part.

But what of meeting people at a party or bar: Everyone is on their best behaviour, well-dressed, trying to impress... How often have you gone on several dates before realising the other person isn’t what you thought?

If you use a psychology test-based online dating service rather than one which just tries to match you according to interests, you have more chance of filtering out people you’ve got no chance of getting on with even if you share a deep passion for building model cars from match sticks or whatever other weird activities you’ve got.

So, before actually taking time and trouble to meet someone, with online dating you already know that your psychology and temperament have a chance of working together, you have an idea about whether their looks appeal (or you know, when you see them coming, that they lie about at least one thing!), and you have some confidence that you share interests.

Compare that to meeting someone in a bar or at a party. Online Dating is better.

== Safety

There are those stories of people using the internet or online dating to connect with axe murderers or Very Strange People... I’m sure it happens. But online dating carries zero risk of being mugged getting to your car; zero risk of getting your drink spiked; zero risk of being followed to your car or chased down an alley; and zero risk of being bored to death.

It’s like plane crashes. Plane crashes and “Internet Dating Horrors” make good TV news and can be really scary. But if you want to take into account actual risks of death or injury then go to the mall by scheduled airline. In fact, get a scheduled airline to fly you onto your roof for repairs - much safer than driving or using that portable death trap - The Ladder.

If there is a danger to online dating it is that you can meet many hundreds of times more people in a year than you could do in traditional venues or through friends and family. There may well be more weirdoes online than you’ll meet face-to-face, probably because it’s easier for them too. So you’ll probably MEET more weirdoes online. but unlike face-to-face, online connections are brought to a complete and permanent stop by “blocking” - which every dating site provides.

Just DON’T give your real address or phone number to strangers, the same rule you’d apply when meeting someone at a bar.

== Marketing “Reach”

Online, you have access to literally millions of people. Of course, this number is restricted according to your location, age and sexual orientation, but you’re still looking at hundreds of thousands or millions of potential candidates. And online dating provides the means to actually come to the attention of that large number of potentially promising people. Older methods of meeting people simply can’t compete with the scale of promise offered by online dating.

== Online Dating is so much cheaper than face-to-face

It seems that, of the people who USE online dating services, fewer than 6% actually pay to use those online dating services.

They say it’s too expensive and that they don’t see the real value for money.

OK. Do the arithmetic.

A service like PerfectMatch.com can sell you a full year membership for $250. That’s less than $5 per week. Compare that to what you do now...

Have only ONE date each season. That’s four times a year... dinner, parking/taxis, maybe some movie tickets, some drinks, get your hair done or dry clean that suit.

Or what is your tab for all those evenings at the bar? Add in the bottles of wine taken to dinner with friends or your kick-ins for take-away where Someone Interesting is promised.

And at each face-to-face event you get to meet... how many people?

For $5 a week you can meet dozens of people through online dating who have a good chance of being interesting.

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