As we spend an increasing amount of time working on our careers, our free time diminishes, and it becomes harder to meet a potential partner. The only people we meet are colleagues, and we can't try and date them anymore for fear of sexual harassment lawsuits. There are also the people that your friends try and match you up with. While your friends might be well meaning, there is nothing more awkward that sitting at a dinner party, the only other single person in the room sitting beside you, feeling like all eyes are on you. Setting single people up is like a bizarre sport for married couples, and you should definitely avoid getting involved. There is another option though. In the last few years any remaining stigma that might have been attached to online dating has been removed. This is now a socially acceptable way to meet a potential partner.
This article discusses the advantages of Internet Dating, and why you should consider it if you are bored being single. The main advantage of internet dating is that you can find out about a person before you make contact. This allows you to filter out the people you know you wouldn't be interested in, and makes for a much higher success rate in finding a partner. Read the profiles carefully; you can usually determine a lot about a person by their style of writing, the sort of hobbies they have, and the manner in which they describe themselves.
There are tons of people on a typical dating site, so if you don't fancy one, just move on to the next person on the search results page. Once you have selected some potential dates, you can send them a message via the dating site. This allows you to strike up a virtual conversation with the other person, and helps you find out more about the person that they didn't reveal on their profile. You will also be able to gauge by their reply whether they might be interested in you. If they just answer your questions without asking any of their own, then the chances are they aren't that interested. However if they respond to your message with some questions, then you have an 'in' to contact them again. This virtual conversation is a great preliminary way to get to know someone, and is a major advantage of online dating. Another advantage of internet dating is that there are so many people to choose from. This means that if you are on a first date, and realise that this person is not for you, you can just move on to the next one on the list.
The chances are, if you have gotten to know your date via email beforehand, you probably will get on with them in an offline situation. However, the fact that you know you have other options relieves a lot of the pressure that is normally present on a first date, and this sometimes enables the two of you to get on better than you might if you had met in a conventional manner. By now you will be aware of some of the advantages of internet dating. It is clear that this is an excellent way to meet a potential partner, and now that the social stigma has been removed, you no longer have any excuses for not giving it a try...
