Online Dating: Love at First Byte (PART I)
Posted on 12. Dec, 2007 in Dating Tips, Relationships Advice
The database of Match.com, a very popular online dating website, includes 3 million customers. There are over 380,000 people, though, wasting $25-100 per year here, trying to find the right person in the network of this online dating service. One of them is Audrey (not her real name).
Audrey says the person she’s looking for should be “confident, intelligent and that he should be himself “. He shouldn’t be one of those men that spend their leisure time on the couch, in front of a TV, not a “military type” and not the type of “pessimistic, depressive people”.
Another Rules for Online Dating
While in the real world, first there is physical attraction and then it leads to really getting to know each other, in the world of online dating, all the rules are reversed: first, people get to know each other emotionally and intellectually, and only then, after meeting offline, they get to know each other physically too.
A good example of this would be the vice president of Match.com itself, Trish McDermott. She has been using her company’s service and has even dated a man she has met on this online dating website for some 2 and a half years. The main advantage of online dating is that you first get to see really meaningful things for you, such as things you have in common, a good sense of humor, life principles and traits of personality. You get to know that person really well until you get to the point when you say, “Hey, I like that. Why shouldn’t I meet him/her?”
A Lot of Choices=More Chances
Audrey, who’s 48, finds online dating the most perfect way of meeting someone for she dislikes getting to meet people in bars and all kinds of parties, not mentioning that she’s not in the age of doing this. She claims she’s sure that sooner or later she’ll find thus “a great man for her”.
Tom (not his real name either) began dating Audrey after meeting her online on Match.com for a few weeks only. He’s fond of online dating too and finds it similar to shopping in a supermarket, “You see the image and style, and you can read the ingredients. And if you decide this is what you’re looking for, you go and “buy” it, that is you send an email”.
During a year, Audrey has met over 100 possible matches online, she talked to them and has met off-line 10, among which a half of them she has dated more than once. “It takes time to do all these things”, she says, “but it’s worth it.”
If you want to date online, start by writing an ad in order to find the type of people you’re looking for, but be aware it’ll take a lot of time to maintain email contact to be able to select matches.
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