I know we all have friends who have stories about how they found their sweet baboo on an online dating sites but what about the stories of the failures? Bob Sullivan thinks so too. He wrote The Demise of Online Dating? Maybe.
Cheers to Emily for the link.
Services such as Match.com, eHarmony, Friendster, MySpace, Nerve, Salon, Act for Love, or the Onion ask for around $50-dollars-a-month for access to their stable of fine men and women.
My failure experiences are sundry and expensive. Hundreds of dollars if not thousands over time and all the women I have ever dated or made my girlfriend — or even been lovers to — have all been met face-to-face.
So, to-date I would say that I am thus far an online dating failure story.
Issues of note via Bob Sullivan:
“Trish McDermott, a co-founder of industry leader Match.com, has left the company, saying online dating doesn’t work. Her four-part critique echoes the bad things you’ve already heard about online dating.
1. It’s full of liars. You’ll have no trouble meeting married men who look nothing like their pictures and really don’t like holding hands while walking on the beach.
2. It’s a rude place. People don’t show up for dates, they mislead others, they don’t respond with polite no-thank-yous
3. It fosters out-of-line expectations. Marketers would have you think love is as easy as “Insert a quarter, get a partner.” Six months and $300 later, on a lonely Valentine’s Day, you might feel cheated.
4. It’s isolating. Online dates can be a bit secretive, and online relationships can happen in a bubble.”
Well, all that said and considering my track record, I still have hope.
Oh yeah, and Happy Valentine’s Day!
