Online dating is a relatively new thing, it has only been about in force for 10 years, yet it has already become accepted as the norm. The traditional forms of meeting people still very much exist. You can still go out to bars, clubs and dance halls. You can meet people at weddings, through friends, via matrimonial services or face to face single nights. You can rely on meeting someone via where you work, or being “set up” by your mates with someone. All of these still exist, but online dating has come to trump all of them as one of the best ways to meet someone. It still takes effort and time, but so do all the other ways so that is no different! However, online dating has a few key advantages over all others.
Selection is 80%
What makes a relationship work is primarily selection. It does not matter if you are looking for a full on relationship, a no strings attached relationship, or just a fuck buddy or a hoop up. 80% of it working comes from the selection, and only 20% from the efforts you make. If you get it wrong from the start, it is never going to work, no matter how much effort you make.
You have limited time
You have limited time, you only live for a certain amount of time! If selection is 80%, then you want to meet as many people as you can in order to try and get the closest matching selection that you can find. When you date traditionally, this leaves you meeting a limited number of people a night. With a set up or a date, you meet one person. In a bar you maybe meet 10 people that are potentials.
The biggest pool of people
Online dating provides the biggest pool of people. We are talking literally thousands of people in the pool that are potentials, as selected by an algorithm from hundreds of thousands of people that have signed up to it. This means that you have the highest chance of find your 80% girl/guy, the girl/guy that you are really compatible with.
This is what makes inline dating so powerful in comparison to other forms of meeting people. It is the only one where you have such a large amount of people that are exposed to you, and you are exposed to them. If selection really is the biggest factor, then online dating is the only way to go.
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