Why Online Dating Has a Bad Rap

We recently talked about online dating and whether it was for “desperate people.” (Result: no way!) Then, last week I was talking with the Q100 Bert Show in Atlanta, and one of the questions they asked me for whether online dating had a bad rap.

Want to know what I said? The answer might surprise you but I said online dating did have a bad rap! But it shouldn’t. Online dating is a great way to get introduced to people, but here are some reasons why it gets a bad rap.

People Who Have Never Tried Online Dating Complain About It
Married or attached people can become very smug about dating, can’t they? They may look down their nose at online dating as being desperate simply because they met their special someone a different way. Don’t pay attention to the people who have never tried it.

Horror Stories Make Better News Items
I personally know several people who have benefited from online dating. Still, when I read the news all I seem to hear about are people who had bad experiences. The news tends to slant the story to the more dramatic, remember that the next time you hear about a horror story.

Negativity Never Works
Nearly everyone that has complained about online dating to me are people that either haven’t done it themselves or someone that went in with such a poor attitude there was no way there they were going to succeed. Negativity (complaining about the lack of quality people, whining on a date about your ex’s) doesn’t work in online dating. (Or, for that matter, in any kind of dating.)

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