Online Dating Versus Blind Dates

Friends, family and co-workers that are in relationships cannot stand to see you single and showing no visible prospects so blind dates are pushed at you.

Blind Dates

I’m willing to bet that you’ve been bombarded so often with blind date offers from well intending friends, family or co-workers that you’ve caved in and accepted more than once just to shut them up.

You were probably told the person was perfect for you, that you’d be a great couple, that you’d have a great time with the person or you were presented some other rosy outcome for the date. Since you are still looking for that special someone, it’s a safe bet that the date or string of dates did not work out.

Did time drag so slow for you that you wondered if it had actually stopped? You probably endured bad food, bad company, conversation that revealed you had very little if anything, in common with your companion for the evening or another unpleasant or uncomfortable situation.

Don’t feel too bad because your date was probably pressured into the blind date as much as you were and may have been just as uncomfortable or miserable as you.

Online Dating

Online dating gives you control YOU choose the person that interests you then you start conversing to see how much, if anything, you have in common.

Most of the better online dating sites have places for members to put up profiles stating their interests, occupation, etc, places to upload photographs, built in email capabilities until YOU feel comfortable enough to move to a more personal means of communication, chat rooms and more.

People can and do lie both online and offline but you can usually figure them out IF you don’t rush things AND don’t allow them to pressure YOU into moving too fast. Someone that’s in a hurry and pushing more often than not has a hidden agenda that is NOT going to be good for you.

After getting to know someone through an online dating site, instant messages, chats, emails and phone calls, you are ready to start looking again OR to meet this person in the real world.

The first meeting should be in a public place for safety and you should build in a safe exit should things NOT look right. Plan on the first meeting being a little rocky because neither of you can be 100 percent certain the other was completely honest and that the online chemistry will translate offline.

Dating is ALWAYS exciting and a challenge because you are hoping to find someone to merge your life with and that means you must open your heart and risk being hurt. Whether you choose to allow a well intentioned friend “to set you up” or choose to participate in the exciting world of online dating is up to you but you get to decide who is in control with online dating.

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