Online daters are social misfits

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Registered: 08-02-2007
Online daters are social misfits
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Mon, 10-29-2007 - 12:31am
Almost every single person who has had to go online to find a date at some point has issues. I used to think this was the exception, but now I am becoming more and more convinced this is actually the rule. The vast majority of (normal) people are not online. If they were, a search on any popular dating site for a given metropolitan area for a given age range would turn up tens of thousands, maybe hundreds. Instead, only a couple of hundred at most show up. Normal people don't go online. They have for centuries, or at least for many decades preceding the internet age, been meeting, dating and marrying people within a circle of friends or acquaintances and been perfectly content with it. Those who did not, grew old, died alone and got eaten by their cats. But now all of a sudden another pool of potential dates opens up and these social misfits are as discontent as ever.

'Misfit' may be a slight exaggeration, but despite their outwardly appearance of normalcy, most aren't 'normal'.



Which begs the question - what is wrong with these people ?




Edited 10/29/2007 1:07 am ET by capegirardeau

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