Dating sites on the Internet have become so prevalent over the last couple of years, that you might be forgiven for thinking everyone in the world is looking for someone. This might not be far from the truth, of course, because we are a gregarious society and thrive on the company (and maybe sexual relationships) of others. Birds do it, bees do, even educated fleas do it...
A friend of mine has been on sites, on and off, for a couple of years. Some are free, like Love@Lycos, Plentyoffish.com and Midsummers Eve. Others have little hidden catches: free to join, but a payment if you want to message someone, or a limited time in which to contact someone, before you need to get your credit card out.
For him, the most prolific of these – in terms of ‘results’ - has been Match.com. He has been with them all: Friends Reunited Dating, Lycos, Plentyoffish and more – but Match has been the most efficient way of contacting ladies of a similar frame of mind.
Being the biggest site on the Net probably has something to do with it, but he says he was able to search for partners within a small radius of his home, and find more suitable applicants. None of the other sites could give him any contact within 10 miles of his town, but Match came up trumps.
This doesn’t mean, of course, that any relationship is destined to last; often people chat online, phone each other, meet – but in a lot of cases, the relationship fizzles out, sometimes after the first date. In my friend's opinion, it’s rare to go beyond a first date without bailing out or desperately backtracking, but he claims to have made a few friends on such sites, and in the cold light of day, friends are people you can choose to be with or not, as the case may be; not everyone wants a 24/7 intense relationship.
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