Have you been looking for a reason to put yourself out there online (other than your mother’s borderline stalky behavior in pursuit of grandchildren?) Dating sites have more than one draw to the perpetually single and some of them may surprise you…
8. Online Dating is Cheaper
Sure it’s obnoxious to fork over upwards of $25 a month for premium dating site memberships and extras like digital “coins” and “flowers,” but have you actually calculated the cost of a real life date recently? Between movie tickets and dinner (and if the date goes south, the restraining order paperwork) you can end up over $100 in the hole per date.
7. You Control the Flow of Information
Everyone’s got something. Maybe you’ve got a slight stutter or you can’t tell navy blue from black or perhaps you sort of always smell like your grandma’s house. Whatever your “thing” happens to be, it doesn’t have to be revealed until you decide it’s time when you’re dating online…wait until you’ve made a connection to reveal your downside rather than getting ditched mid-introduction in real life.
6. It’s Your Speed
Say you’re one of those people who aren’t good at making conversation with strangers or perhaps you’ve just come out of a bad relationship and you expect Mr. Right to take it painfully slow. Like, chastity belt slow. Online dating allows you to get close when you feel it’s right, not just because it’s date #3 and you’ve got a wedding coming up you really don’t want to go to stag.
5. Less Club Music
How many times have you cursed the day Kanye West was born from the dance floor of a club at 1:00am before going home alone and rejected (again)? Yeah, there’s no Kanye in online dating if you don’t want there to be.
4. Your Date is Pre-Qualified
Depending on which dating sites you use to make connections you can really narrow down your dating field from day one. Let’s say you’re a single parent or you really, REALLY like guys with mustaches – there’s a dating site for that. No more awkward dealbreakers coming up halfway through your first meal with a new date.
3. You’ll Become a Multi-Tasker
Unlike the real world dating scene wherein juggling 11 potential mates at once is considered, you know, vile, in the online dating world you can have tons of conversations and future-dates bubbling at once without anyone getting offended. That’s the way it works online and everyone’s down! It’s like the 60s!
2. Make a Move…Digitally
The great thing about the internet is that it can instantly transport you from Scranton, PA to, say, San Francisco or even Buenos Aires, if you’re feeling saucy. Online dating expands your dating circle geographically in a way real-world dating will never be able to do which is good news for everyone willing to relocate for love.
1. It’s Effective
The real story behind online dating: Dating. Sites. Work. Maybe it’s that many digital daters are more inclined to actively pursue a serious relationship than casual real-world singles or maybe it’s the way dating sites weed out bad matches before they begin and waste everyone’s time in the process. If you’ve got the time, the perseverance and the desire to find a partner online rest assured there’s a real match just waiting for you on the interwebs. You’ve just got to find it.
Online dating isn’t just the wave of the new millennium, it’s actually better than traditional dating for a number of reasons. If mixers, set-ups and the bar scene just aren’t working out for you, you know where to go next…