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I think this is important too. There's two kinds of people in the online dating realm. The people who could have gotten dates/married without online dating, but

I think this is important too. There's two kinds of people in the online dating realm. The people who could have gotten dates/married without online dating, but just happen to have used the medium to expand their circle. And the people who would have had difficulty offline, and that difficulty may or may not extend to the online realm too. Everyone I know who've found love online seem to be in the first category. Those that find dating difficult offline don't seem to have significantly better luck online either.

TT3351 6y ago
I find that last statement a little confusing; I have horrendous luck offline and have significantly better luck online. I have never been able to "ask someone out" conventionally in person without making a fool of myself. It's a lot easier for me to take lots of rejection (the price everyone pays for being single and looking) when I'm sitting on the toilet on my phone in the morning than when I'm face to face with the person I'm interested in. Much faster turnover between individual rejections as well. All of the most positive relationships in my life, not just in romance or sex, have been off online dating/hookup sites/apps. Edit: and I never once paid for them
didibus 6y ago
Some of my friends definitely had difficulty dating offline. Nice and shy, might not know what to say in a first date, can seem a bit boring at first, and also just doesn't have a big social circle to meet other people. I feel online dating gave them a chance to meet some other people, pre-meet prior to first date, and than go on a first date, which they'd otherwise wouldn't have been able too. Either from never meeting the person in the first place, never asking to go out on a date, or messing up that date. That's all my personal analysis though, like I have no data here appart from a few people I know and my interpretation.

TT3351 6y ago

I find that last statement a little confusing; I have horrendous luck offline and have significantly better luck online. I have never been able to "ask someone out" conventionally in person without making a fool of myself. It's a lot easier for me to take lots of rejection (the price everyone pays for being single and looking) when I'm sitting on the toilet on my phone in the morning than when I'm face to face with the person I'm interested in. Much faster turnover between individual rejections as well. All of the most positive relationships in my life, not just in romance or sex, have been off online dating/hookup sites/apps. Edit: and I never once paid for them

didibus 6y ago

Some of my friends definitely had difficulty dating offline. Nice and shy, might not know what to say in a first date, can seem a bit boring at first, and also just doesn't have a big social circle to meet other people. I feel online dating gave them a chance to meet some other people, pre-meet prior to first date, and than go on a first date, which they'd otherwise wouldn't have been able too. Either from never meeting the person in the first place, never asking to go out on a date, or messing up that date. That's all my personal analysis though, like I have no data here appart from a few people I know and my interpretation.