Online dating has become a phenomenon. The travails of immersing yourself in crowded bars, the bitter sensation that comes with being told you are not good enough to your face, that haunted feeling of loneliness that consumes you on that solitary trek home, have been replaced by a computer screen and several clicks of a mouse. Venus Says will outline the many advantages of staying in, and finding your match online.
THE DEPTH OF THE SEA
After every rejection, you are often subjected to a sympathetic friend telling you that there are ‘plenty of fish in the sea’, when in reality, the number of available, and desirable (for you, as everyone’s tastes vary) singles more closely resembles a paddling pool than a sea. If you live in a relatively small town, then your chances of finding that special someone on the dating scene is really very slim.
Online dating has an enormous number of available singles, in North America, there are some 50 million people registered on online dating agencies, in Britain, there are more than 7 million. Even when you take into account, only the numbers that are within a 50 kilometre radius of you, you are still dealing with a number, far beyond what is possible to meet on a regular night out.
THE PRICE IS RIGHT
That dreaded word, ‘recession’, is unfortunately a fact of life for the most of the population. Therefore, the cost of a night out can weigh heavy on your wallet, and, how many of these nights out can one afford? Once a week, maybe twice, so a maximum of two chances per week of meeting the right person. Using simple mathematics, even someone who has the courage to talk to two or three members of the opposite sex on one nightly excursion, is limiting themselves to between four and six potential encounters.
For this, you may have to pay anything from to $50 to $100 (taking into account, rounds of drinks, taxis, nightclub fees) per night, with a high percentage chance of having nothing but a hangover to show for your efforts. In online dating, you can bypass all this expense by joining an online dating agency, where the joining fee usually ranges from $20-$40 per month for the premium sites, with numerous free sites available also. For this, you get the chance to talk to literally hundreds of singles, most of whom are also searching for the right person. It seems to be a matter of common sense, $200-$400 for the opportunity to talk to a maximum of 25 singles in a month (and this is VERY high), or ten percent of that price for the chance to talk to as many singles as you wish.
Patrick Lynch
