Online Dating

Online dating has made some serious improvements in the past few years. It is no longer for just the freaks and the geeks. A lot of people are doing it! How do I know that? Because I'm one of them. I met my ex on Match.com. And even though things didn't work out with us, I don't see that as any fault of the website. In fact, I was quite surprised by the variety of people I saw on Match.com. I can honestly say that I am no longer the cynic I once was when it comes to online dating.

I'm not much of a casual dater. I don't really have much experience in the dating department, actually. I have never met a guy at the bar that I have hoped would want to date me, in fact, I think I've cringed on a number of occasions when giving out my number - probably one of the reasons I never got called. It seems that the guys I meet at bars only want one thing, and that happens to be just fine for me... at that moment.

So where do you go to meet someone that you want to have a deeper, romantic connection with? If your friends don't have any single friends to set you up with - ones you'd be interested in at least - then how do you meet anyone?

It may cost money, but online dating does the research for you. They find people in your area that have similar interests and values as you and connect you. They even try to match you with people they think you would find attractive! What more could you ask for? My one recommendation with online dating would be to never pay for more than one month at a time. Of course it is cheaper to do three or six months, but when you meet someone in the first month and you don't use if for the next five, it's not really cost efficient. Plus, if you don't meet someone in a month, take a month or so off before you reactivate your profile, that way you've got some fresh new faces to search through.

Anyway, I'm on Chemistry.com now, which works a little differently from Match.com. Instead of you searching through hundreds of profiles at your own convenience, they'll send you up to ten potential matches in one day. The only down side to Chemistry.com, that I've seen so far anyway, is that you can't see who your competition is. We'll see how it goes.