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A couple of years ago I remember the looks of pity my friend Jennifer would get when she mentioned she'd been trying an online dating site. I must admit, at the time, I too thought she must be desperate; couldn't she meet anyone in 'real' life? Didn't she meet people at work, or at parties?

I judged her actions and concluded that she must be either socially inept, or a bit weird. Of course, you know I wouldn't be writing about this if she had never met anyone...sure enough, she met a guy online, they fell in love, and now they're married.

Just one experience like this in your own circle of friends can make you reconsider your rushed judgments. So, could online dating prove to be a mainstream way of meeting people, or would it remain in the margins of society? Is it humiliating to look for people online?

Well, let's say you're occupied with work all day, you go out twice a week with your usual group of friends, and the rest of the time you're washing dishes, doing laundry, cleaning your home (or more likely a combination of Facebook, TV and surfing the net); realistically, how many new 'dateable' people are you likely to meet?

Even if you managed to date, or even chat beyond pleasantries with, one new person a week, how many of those are likely to strike up any kind of connection with? Maybe one in a hundred, and that's if you're lucky. At that rate, it would take you two years to even meet someone you could fall for.

So, let's say you look at these statistics and realize you need to up the odds of meeting someone. You do the logical thing and search a database of millions of people on a dating site. Isn't it still a bit like shopping for a laptop on Amazon?! Isn't it less 'real' than bumping into someone at a party?

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