Hottest topic: dating online

Most single people end up searching for a soul mate online, and this is not a secret anymore, many do find. Online dating has loads of advantages for lazy people and endless advantages for the shy souls out there. Of course we are going to exclude some nasty cases where people lie about their identities or abuse the online discreteness. Let’s be passive and see how can it brighten up your day… First of all, “online data” can easily be arranged when both of you sit in your old socks, slightly stinky, and you are not limited to the borders of your city or country - you have the whole planet before you. Just pick whoever from any part of the globe, ain’t it amazing? Secondly, many people who are shy by nature find it difficult to approach girls in so called “real life” and therefore end up alone for many years… Internet easily crashes this barrier - it’s far easier to talk online, people are more open, more confident, and you have the ability to get to know one’s personality regardless the looks, which I am sure many would see as a great advantage.

The question many of you may ask is, where exactly people fish out each other online and call it online love? Quite a few places are available, and one of them is FriendFinder. At FriendFinder you can create an account free (there is, however, an option to upgrade if you wish to get access to additional options such as uploading photo or recording video / voice instructions). I signed up out of curiosity just to take a look how it works and what are the options. Creating an account is pretty easy and you can choose not to disclose some details about yourself in the profile (those that later will be public), so it’s a plus, as some other websites of this nature do require to display personal info.

Once you have an account, activated by a password sent to you, you can start searching for activity partners, friends, or… your destiny. You can filter matches by sexual orientation and country (no option to search worldwide), and you can select what languages would you want your mates to speak, so you won’t end up with friends you are unable to chat with. I searched one of the countries of my choice and got to see quite a few results, most people do have a photo and “new” profiles indicate that they are new, so you can grab the new goods before they are taken. Moreover you have the facility to look for “most popular members”, who also have the option to show their personality (well, as much as it’s possible online) and some of them even have multiple photos. Searching is a pretty entertaining process considering that you know you can contact any of them and most likely they would be interested to have have a word with you.

FriendFinder and internet really breaks all the boundaries and cultural obstacles as you can “date” and start build up hopes on someone who lives 1000 miles away from you…