Agreed. It’s entirely what you make of it. If you want more hookups, you can find them. If you want to fall in love with one person and be monogamous, you can do that, too. Or if you just want someone to go out with and do things, they’re there. The upfront screening process is helpful in that you can find out specifics right away that you might not in person. But once you actually meet, it’s just like regular dating, no better, no worse.
That’s an interesting article. But i am still going to continue to online date. It is just so much more convenient for me since i don’t have much time to mingle after work.
That’s why I’ve always found it interesting that OKCupid gives both a friend percentage and a match percentage - friend is IIRC straight agreement, “match” is a more complex equation.
As Stalin said, quantity has a quality of its own.
This.
I was just talking about that the other day to someone. When the internet/dating thing first took off, many folks seem kinda freaked out about meeting some stranger from the internet. But come on. You are safely at home. You have plenty of time to get to know someone before you meet them. You can THINK about what you want to say before you “say” it. You have time to THINK about what they said. Blah blah blah.
That’s gotta be better than drunk/half drunk strangers in a bar where you can’t hear or see or breathe for that matter.
Then again IMO the theoretical potential of the net for dating IMO seems to not work nearly as well in reality as one would think it would.
But, it’s still gotta be better than a crappy bar.
Stalin’s dating service would indeed be interesting. 
In Soviet Russia porn cums to you!
well, can say same thing with success rate on the Bachelor(ette).
Wasn’t there a match.com former exec who confessed and said online matching services was one of the worst ways to find relationships?