I have met everyone that is online

I have always wondered when I will reach the point where I have completely run through an internet dating website. There are only so many guys interested in me, and only so many whom I am interested in. I think I run through a personal site in about 1 month. After that everything just goes on auto bill to my credit card because I’m too lazy to cancel.

When I first signed up to an online service I received about 20 e-mails a day, 19 of which I didn’t respond to. After a few months I’m down to about 2 emails a week. I don’t have that ‘new’ stamp over my profile. Sometimes I update my profile and I get the ‘updated’ stamp over my profile, which brings me a few more hits, but nothing interesting. I definitely know why people jump from service to service.

I love how the sites have hundreds of thousands of users, but I only get 5 dates from that hundred thousand. There are all these books out there that tell you how to perfect your online dating profile to get the most match, but when did online dating begin to resemble a job search. I feel like an employer going through a Monster or Hotjobs database looking for the right fit for my household. Perhaps there is something to be said for the old-fashioned method of dating through friends and family. But the problem these days is that my friends know just as few “potentials” as I do and if they’re single, they certainly won’t pass them to me. So where does that leave a single New Yorker like myself to find that soul mate I’ve always been dreaming of?

It scares me to think that there are women who have been dating for so long that they just give up and go to a sperm bank to have a kid. I’m not looking for just someone to have a kid with, I’m looking for someone to share my life experiences and to grow as a person as well as a unit. Online dating has filled a void for the short term, but its long-term prospects have not been promising thus far. We’ve been told as young women to never take no for an answer anymore, and I refuse to throw in the towel without a fight. Maybe I’ll hire one of those dating profile consultants that I’ve heard so much about. We’ll see what happens.