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Originally Posted by andrew  There are TONS of single, attractive, high-quality women online. |
Agreed, but the gender ratios of online versus in person seem a bit different, and as you said there aren't so many women our age on the dating sites. I go to a university with 25,000 students, nearly 2/3 of them female. Just in the course of my day I consistently collect more phone numbers than I have time to call. When I have time I see at least one or two women per day, many that I've seen for a while and perhaps 1 or 2 new ones to get to know each week or so.
I enjoy being able to see people in non-dating situations, such as in-class or at a student club to actually get an idea of what they're like, and then take things further if they seem genuinely interesting. Since I tend to be very playful and dominant in most of my classes and group interactions, it's fairly easy to pick out a girl or two that intrigues me and just hand her my cellphone to have her put in her #.
Of course, once I'm no longer in school or near a college town online dating may be a possibility, but by then there will be more women in my age group and things will have gotten a bit easier.
The main thing that turned me off to online dating was when I created a female profile just to see what women were experiencing, and I found myself getting instant messages from three new men every minute that I was signed on, plus emails, even though it all was costing the guys money as lavalife charges for each contact initiated. I quickly deleted the account so men would stop wasting their money, and finally realized at least one reason many women turn down/ignore a lot of guys: simple time management. So far I've found online dating to only be more efficient for me when I was open to dating other men (as a young bi guy).