Reasons for online dating

Online datingsites are websites where people can present themselves in order to find a potential partner. If someone likes an other person on the website, they make contact online. If they continue to like each other, they might decide to organize an offline meeting.
It is usually necessary to pay for membership, which makes these sites more reliable. No one will access the site just for fun. A big advantages of online dating is that the system will search for a partner that matches best.

Various datingsites
A huge amount of dating sites have settled on the internet. There are many general datingsites, but also numerous 'special interest sites'. These sites are intended for people with certain preferences. For example, if you are concerned with nature you can go to Green Singles. If you're interested in horses you can go to Equestrian Singles. When you are looking for a Christian partner you can go to FunkyFish, for students there is Matchstudents, for coloured people there is Black Singles and for Jewish people there is Jdate. You can even find your own Russian woman at Anastasia Date, find a plus size single at Large and Lovely or look for a wealthy partner at Wealthy Men or Sugardaddie.

Name any preference and there is a dating site for it! I wonder whether there are enough visitors for all these websites but I guess there are, since these websites still exist.

Reasons
But why are all these sites so popular? People make use of online datingsites for several reasons:
- It's appealing to search in a big pool of potential partners
- The privacy and anonymity of a dating site
- An efficient and easy way to find a date
- Easier to find someone with the same interests
- The only possible way left to find a partner (for older people)

I have never tried it myself, but I think it’s a good way to meet new people when you are looking for a date. Datingsites often have a negative image, which I think is not very fair. For many people it is a great way to meet their significant other.
However, my preference goes out to meeting in person first. I think online dating is too detached, while dating should be intimate and personal. If I was looking for a date I wouldn’t go to an offline datingbureau, so I wouldn’t do this either with online datingbureaus. Online dating is however far more approachable than offline dating assistance!