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You meet a person at a bar who likes how you look and you feel the same about them. You engage in light conversation with them. You agree to a date after some light banter. You go on a date with him and you find out that you disagree on pretty much every issue that is important to you. Lotsa time wasted, ya know?
You go online. On most dating sites you can see political affiliation, major interests, core values, key hangups, etc. 5 minutes later you jump to another likely looking profile if the first doesn't please you. Very little time wasted.
A deeper connection than what you get just passing by out in a store or out in public. You get to see what is inside a guys/gals head without being influenced by just their outside appearance. Even better when people of either gender treat the other like crap, then see what they look like and become very very embarrassed.
They don't need to, but it gives them more options. The reason this makes us guys alarmed is because we're afraid women will become even more picky once they figure out that they have more options (basic supply-demand principle in action).
A deeper connection than what you get just passing by out in a store or out in public. You get to see what is inside a guys/gals head without being influenced by just their outside appearance.
The problem with your theory is that studies have shown that pics play the most important role in an online dating profile.
The problem with your theory is that studies have shown that pics play the most important role in an online dating profile.
Pictures of the person or pictures of "their life"? You'd never know that just bumping into someone in public. What their pets look like. What are their hobbies, job, any achievements etc? Most guys would approach on her looks and then find out she is a boring/mental witch later after the fact. It's better to make a connection, then find out you are attracted after you know them.
People spill their guts online as well, and let stuff out hidden anonymously they never would in a million years let out in person. Too shy, too embarrassed......not comfortable etc..
Its one of many ways to meet people. Why not try them all? What does being attractive have to do with it?
Online dating has the advantage of being able to filter people by interest, religion, values, education etc, so theres less time wasted and you can already start enjoying the things you have in common. Whereas meeting complete strangers in public gives you absolutely no idea of what a person is like, so you waste time getting to know them and eventually you break at the bends because there is no connection or its forced, motivated only by hot bodies.
Basically online dating allows room for more precise picking.
I'm making no judgements as everyone is open and free to find happiness wherever that may be. However, I always wondered why certain women who most would deem as attractive would purse online dating as a viable route to meet good, single men. I'd just assume going out and about doing their thing would be enough to meet people to the point that joining a dating site would never even cross their minds. Your opinion...
No attractive women use online dating. It's mostly unattractive men and a few attractive men competing for a bunch of unattractive women.
Well I had gone out on a date with a very well dressed, highly attractive, intelligent, and well to do female who lives in one of the hippest parts of the city whom I had met online. In truth, while conversing with her I couldn't imagine why she needed an online profile, much less stated that she found dating overall to be difficult. I thought she was a real catch. Come to find out that none of her first dates she had met online had ever turned into second dates. Myself included.
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