I mostly agree with you. Online dating is not a panacea and will not replace traditional dating. It's just one tool of many to find a good mate. What people don

I mostly agree with you. Online dating is not a panacea and will not replace traditional dating. It's just one tool of many to find a good mate. What people don't realize is that success in online dating is just as difficult as regular dating. Many people think online dating will be easy, and so get very frustrated when they don't meet the partner of their dreams after a couple months. To that I say, how is that any different than real life? Maybe it's just that nobody cares about your uninteresting profile that took you 45 minutes to write. Maybe your pictures are suboptimal. Maybe you sound desperate or wounded. Maybe you target the wrong people. Maybe you're looking for flings when the site mostly caters to those looking for marriage. Or vice versa. Maybe that particular dating website just sucks. Maybe you can get those first dates but you come off as untrustworthy. Maybe a thousand other things. :) The way I see it, online dating has two main advantages: 1) much of it can be done from the comfort of your own home, and 2) you can be very specific in your preferences up front. In this respect it can be vastly more efficient than traditional routes.