Is Online Dating for the Desperate?
Despite the fact that I’ve talked about the benefits of online dating until I’ve been basically blue in the face, there is always someone that writes me that says, “I don’t want to date online because I’m not that desperate.” Yikes. Get a clue. If you really some additional reasons on the benefits of online dating, here are some just for you.
Online Dating Gives You More Choices
Online dating is for busy people, people just out of a relationship, people who for whatever reason just haven’t met the right person yet. It isn’t for the lame, weird, or desperate. Get over it.
Online Dating Has a High Success Rate
There are people who claim they “could never” online date. Fine – that’s more for the rest of us. One woman who claimed she would never online date came out of a 20-year marriage where her husband was drunk for most of it. She said to me, “I’d prefer to get set up by friends. That’s how I met my husband.” I wanted to say, “Yeah and look how fabulous that turned out.”
If you don’t want to go online, fine. But don’t put people down that have tried it. You can meet great people online, while that guy your friend set you up with might be a louse. Online dating is another option, and comes with a higher success rate (meaning that singles have met someone special) than other methods.
To Each His Own
There is a lot of fear involved with the statement “Online dating is for desperate people.” To me this is someone who is afraid of the Internet, has heard horror stories, and can’t admit that they would probably be terrible at online dating.
Online dating has worked for so many people I know personally that I can confidently say it is a good way to meet people. The people that succeed with online dating tend to be more open, positive, and confident than those that don’t. It doesn’t surprise me that certain people are too negative or fearful to even try online dating, let alone succeed. What does surprise me is the amount of judgment people throw around.
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It’s a very old fashioned view to think of online dating as ‘only for the desperate’ , yes many who are desperate to find love, join an online dating site and throw all common sense out the door but online dating world gives you opportunities to meet and find someone you are compatible with because of the vast numbers you can meet along the way.
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There are actually some rally amazing people on online dating sites who just too cool to be desperate. Some are of course though, and some dating sites just suck.
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