Christian Little

A couple of years ago I recall the looks of pity my friend Jennifer would get when she mentioned she’d been trying online dating. I must admit, at the time, I thought she must be desperate; couldn’t she meet anyone in ‘reality’? Didn’t she meet people at work, or at parties?

I concluded that she must be either a bit weird or socially inept. Of course, you know I wouldn’t be writing about this if she had never met anyone…sure enough, she met a guy online and fell in love. He didn’t live in Bahrain either, he lived in her town!

Just one experience such as this in your own circle of friends can make you question your rushed judgments. So, could online dating prove to be a mainstream way of meeting people, or would it remain in the margins of society? Is it humiliating to look for people online?

Well, let’s say you’re occupied with work all day (nobody eligible there), you go out a couple of times a week with your usual group of friends (been there, dated them), and the rest of the time you’re washing dishes, doing laundry, cleaning your home (or more likely a combination of Facebook, TV and surfing the net); realistically, how many new ‘dateable’ people are you going to come across?

Even if you managed to date, or even chat beyond pleasantries with, one new person a week, how many of them are likely to strike up any kind of connection with? Maybe one in a hundred, and that’s if you’re lucky. At that rate, it would take you two years to even meet someone that you feel really attracted to. Not bad, but, in the meantime, you’ve spent two years alone!

So, what if you want to speed up the process? You do the logical thing and search a database of millions of people on a dating site. You use the Internet to keep in touch with your friends, and for buying things, so why not for dating also?

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