If you’re not sure if this mode of dating is right for you, the next few sections offer some selling points.

An almost limitless supply of people are online:

How frequent is it that you find yourself in a situation where you’re
surrounded by age-appropriate singles? Online, you’re surrounded
by age-appropriate singles every time you log on. And if you
don’t find enough people at one site, you can go to any of hun-
dreds of other sites, or you can simply wait a while and a new
crop of singles will have signed on.

In effect the number of potential matches is essentially limitless
and perpetually changing. Compare that to your current social circles.
In addition to college, when was the last time you were exposed to a
few hundred age-appropriate matches?

Internet dating is more convenient than traditional dating:

When was the last time you prospected for dates in your pajamas
at 3 a.m.? The whole concept of virtual dating is that the community
of single prospects is available to you whenever you want to
meet them. For people with day jobs, children, and other social
obligations, prospecting online at odd hours is the only way to go.
Not only can you log on at odd hours, but you also can log on for
short amounts of time. In our example of the party, you have to
dress up and commit to several hours of socializing with the possi-
bility of not even meeting one age-appropriate single. You know
who is age appropriate online, and you can initiate contact in ten
minutes and log off. Then log on again later or the next day and see
if you got a response.

You can parallel-date at warp speed:

Online, you can certainly initiate contact with multiple prospects
at the same time because the process of initiating contact is so
simple. Then you can engage them in e-mail and phone exchanges
until you can determine which, if any, are worth dating. If none,
you just go back to the trough. Some “brilliant” mastermind once
said dating is a “numbers game.” As you meet more people,
your odds of meeting a “good one” improve. Internet dating is
entirely designed around fast and efficient initial contacts.
After you see potential, you can then slow down the normal dating
speed and concentrate on determining if you have a true match,
just like in traditional dating

Internet dating eliminates the awkwardness of first introductions:

Are you good at walking up to a stranger and saying hello? Not too
many people are and we weren’t either. In online dating, the effort
of making first contact is so slight that the fear of rejection simply
melts away. After you initiate an e-mail exchange, a reply arrives
and the ice thaws. For many people, just getting past the initial
encounter successfully makes the rest of dating easier.