Ultimately, You Need To Meet … Virtual Dating Can Help
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 | by Igor Kotlyar |
Virtual Dating is not meant to replace face-to-face dating. It’s meant to facilitate it. Only face-to-face dating let’s you find your soulmate. Nothing can replace that. The problem is you can’t date everybody, and the question is how do you determine whom to date?
Online dating has provided singles with a much greater pool of candidates than they would be able to access otherwise. It is estimated that 20 Million people are registered on dating sites. But, how does a single person explore this pool?
Profiles are notoriously poor predictors of the true person behind the profile, commonly leading to inflated expectations and ensuing disappointment.
- Screening by height and body type is much like “judging a book by its cover” … could be a fun read, but it’s not going to help identify the Classics.
- Meeting singles indiscriminately creates emotional burn out.
- Ironically, availability of a huge pool of singles can lead to people dating less, not more.
This is where Virtual Dating comes in. It provides a fun, safe way for singles to get to know each other … in order to decide whether or not to meet in person.
Virtual Dating is a tool for singles to interact with one another in an unscripted way and get a better sense of whether their tastes, interests and styles of interaction match. Do the same things make them laugh? Do they share a similar outlook on life? Do they have the same taste in music? Etc.
For those who are serious about finding their soulmate, Virtual Dating is a great mechanism for narrowing down the pool. It reduces stress and safety concerns; it creates familiarity and bonds. It encourages singles to get out and date in real life.
Ironically, virtual dating can lead to more in-person dating, not less.
Virtual dating facilitates in-person dating in other ways as well. In a study published last year, two profs from Harvard and MIT found that going on virtual dates makes for more successful real life dates.
BTW, an average virtual date on OmniDate lasts more than 30 minutes with many dates lasting over 2 hours!
