Monday, October 19, 2009

Online Dating Is Not Just For the Introvert

The desire for love and companionship among other things is one of a number of basic human characteristics. People look for these things and find them in the oddest places. These days, the world wide web, which is the ultimate resource for information, is also a great resource for building relationships with people near and far. Well researched studies report that people of all personality types or dispositions use the internet to make these connections. This means that people who are socially shy are just as likely to use a free dating site as a person who is a social butterfly. However, people who have more anxiety about having in person interactions are less likely to make themselves as visible on a free dating site as someone without social anxiety. The best thing about free dating sites is that users may have more control over who they interact with, how many people they interact with; the terms of the interaction can be set by the users as well.

There are so many free dating sites out there to choose from it can cause the cognitive overload that many studies suggest people experience when faced with the infinite number of personal profiles on any free dating sites. There are free dating sites and sites which people have to pay a fee usually an annual or monthly one for. Free dating sites are useful because there is no expense for using them. However dating sites that come with fees may offer more services and have less or no advertisements.

There are free dating sites such as KissCafe and pay dating sites such as eHarmony. What is interesting about KissCafe is that it is not solely a website for internet dating. Users can also write blogs about issues that interest them. So KissCafe is a multipurpose site which can be used to create social change. Paying sites like eHarmony do the finding for you, but this is after your subscription. You are essentially paying for your matches although there is no guarantee that they will be matches. Lastly, Omnidate is an interesting free dating site which offers virtual interaction between users.

It is good not put all of your eggs in one basket, so to speak, and use both free and non-free sites. Just as one might look for news on multiple sites to verify whether news is reliable and truthful one should try multiple dating sites. By doing this one can make his or herself more available and visible and this might increase the chances of finding someone. It may also be good to enroll in multiple free dating sites and scope out users of interest to see if their profiles match up; if a person says one thing in one profile and something totally different in another one might assume that the person is not being truthful.

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