Anything written here is only in my experience.

After 10 years in marital solitude and now divorce, I returned to single life to find the world radically altered by online dating.

I saw that everything was replaced by having to sift through profiles like an employer, and then there's the weird responses, lapses in response, communication cuts, drags through alternate web sites out for your money and rampant dating sites. Next to that is long communication lags, blunt force requests (scary) and all in between.

Online dating has turned everything of sorts in to pick and mix at a local sweet shop. Realistically in the real world, you might only have physically been able to approach 1 to 2 people in a day given your guts and limited to your local dating pool, friend of your friend type scenarios, sometimes weeks or months would pass.

But now the option is to flick a few fingers and you've got access to hundreds. I think that's just an illusion of choice, or maybe just plain information over load.

There are just options now with out a physical consequence attached to it, because everything is behind a screen.

Can't Imagine what it's like for sort after women being barraged by hundreds of men.

What happened to good old fashioned get her/his number, and lets meet at xyz?