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Is online Dating Worth the Price Tag?
By David Roy | Published on May 12, 2010 | Category: Online Dating Tips
The price of an Internet dating website membership varies. Some memberships are totally free, but the quality of the members and of the website features usually suffer.
Decent dating websites do have a membership price, often in between US$20 and US$60 per month.
Is it really worth paying that much for this service? Should you go ahead and spend your money on it?
The answer is yes: You can get much more for your dollar with online dating than you can with any other way of meeting singles.
There is no other way to meet singles that lets you have access to so many profiles and so much information. Internet dating websites maintain thousands of profiles of people in your area. Each profile description is filled with questions that reveal interests, tastes, values, status, and other information about the member. You can browse those profiles and contact any that you like.
Thousands of people subscribe and complete new profile ads every day. Viewing these profiles, you can discover what these people are looking for and what their interests are, and you can decide if you want to contact any of them.
Contacting someone on a dating site is very easy—that's what the websites are designed for. With online chatting and messaging, you can easily end up being in contact with dozens of people within one evening.
Not only can you contact them, but you can also be solicited by them and end up meeting someone without even having to take the first step toward contact. All this happens without any interruption in the service.
Online dating websites operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. During that time, new subscribers are constantly joining the website, which means new prospects for you. If you feel like it, you can go ahead and email a new prospect at 4 a.m. This aspect is perfect for a busy professional with a tight schedule. There are no rules for when you can and cannot find a date on the Internet.
Now let's compare this to the bar scene. It can be quite expensive to go to a bar to meet singles, and the quality of those singles might not be the best either. Just one night out is equivalent to (or more expensive than) the cost of a one-month membership online. On top of that, the chances that you will meet someone interested in a long-term relationship are not as good as the chances if you were online.
Now, what about newspaper and magazine ads? You can pay upwards of US$15 to advertise your personal ad in a newspaper or magazine, but this won't give you any control over whom you can contact. The number of people exposed to your print ad is also much lower than on the Internet.
Dating websites also work at finding matches for you. They all have some kind of matching system that searches prospects in whom you could be interested. The system then sends the matches to you via email or puts them in a section of the website for you to access as you please.
No other service will give you more for your buck than online dating. It is not only cheaper but also more convenient. You can use it any day of the week, at any moment. The number of people you can be in contact with on the Internet is tremendous, and the website features help you narrow them down to your matches.
Is online dating worth the price tag? Yes, it certainly is.
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