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Originally Posted by
Marbles29 
I've wrestled with the thought of joining an online dating site, but I can't imagine many girls fulfilling my modest standards on such a network. I'm sure there are some diamonds in the rough, the rest, however, were culled from standard dating practices as far back as utero. Even if dating sites were flooded with delicious honies, something seems rather artificial about the whole setting. Upon what criteria are people matched? If common interests, why not pair me with my best same sex friend? What kindles one's desires in the opposite sex is a physical attractiveness, not limited to beauty in the strictest sense of the word; a certain comportment which one may discern only in the flesh; the nature of the first meeting also endows the object of attraction with a special something too, and the computer screen is its alloy.
That said, I'm 25, and I can't speak of an environment in which to meet worthwhile singles. Thus, I resort to asking out girls on the street, with little or no prior conversation, my interest is often requited with legit cell phone numbers but -- too infrequently -- a date.
You may be 25, but you have the mindset of 50-year old divorcee who hasn't been on a date since Carter was president.
And your prose -- Jesus Christ, can you be any more prissy?
Once you're out of school and in a job where most of your waking hours are spent at the office or traveling for work, meeting the future Ms. Right gets difficult.
Yes, you can hook up with the office pussy. You can go to bars. You can always chat up the hot babe who's in line with you at Starbucks. Or you can dream the dream of every business traveler in America, that on your next flight to London or San Fran, you'll have 6-8 hours to chat up the babe seated next to you.
For those of us who don't do magical thinking or want to push the odds of meeting Ms. Right in our favor, there's on-line dating. Stop thinking the sites are only for losers. In my experience, their female members include lots of smart, charming, good-looking women dying to meet their male equivalents. Because in their regular lives, when they're in line at Starbucks, they encounter nothing but creeps hitting on them.
Over the last five years, the hottest, most desirable women I've dated I met on-line. Each was a woman who, had we met her in a bar, I would have found her hot and desirable. But without dating sites, none would ever have appeared on my radar.
Knock off your nonsense about online dating being artificial. It's no more or less artificial than any encounter with someone new where you're each explicitly evaluating one another as a prospective sex or romantic partner. Having your grandmother fix you up with the niece of a woman she knows from church is just as artificial (but far more excruciating).
You also need to get over thinking you can rely on serendipitous encounters to meet hot women. That works only in romantic comedies. Or if you're a movie star or pro athlete.
In college, you can just hang-out and watch the babes walk past. Lots of chances to get to know a girl before taking her out. So it's easy to cull the herd.
Dating sites is how busy adults cull the herd.
