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Recently I was at a party for a friend from work. I didn’t know a lot of the people too well but did my best to mingle and enjoy myself. At one point I found myself in a small circle of my co-workers friends and stood aside as a newly introduced couple walked away from the group. Apparently they had met online and the group kept making jokes about how long they’d last or how desperate they must have been. I politely pardoned myself and slipped away to find better people to surround myself. I’m an attractive twenty four year old woman, and the best relationship I’ve been in was with someone I had met online. Years ago I went on blind dates, met people at bars, and even took classes at my local community college to meet men. (Although I also had an interest in the classes.) I met the biggest psycho’s at bars, the biggest perverts at classes, and had the most awkward moments on blind dates. When I look back on the best dates I’ve been on or the most intriguing men I’ve known, I see very few of them that I met through friends, school, or work. The most interesting and romantic men I’ve known I met online. Think as you will but in this day and age I think it’s even EASIER to meet someone you will click with online than through a friend. When you meet someone online you get to know them a little before you meet them. It makes a date a little easier if you already know you have something in common.

Imagine it; you meet a complete stranger on the internet. A photo gives you a decent idea of what they look like, and you like what you see. You find common interests and unique aspects of them that captivate your imagination. After a few short days work flies by as you check your e-mail ever few hours to see if they wrote back. Another photo or two reveals an even more attractive person than you thought. Eventually, after you’re both comfortable enough with the idea you meet some place public for your first date. Maybe things don’t go so well, you realize you’re not a match, and you go your separate ways. You never see them again; you never have to deal with your friends saying they asked about you, they are completely and totally out of your life. If however things do work out you go on another fabulous date.

I’ve been dating a man I met online for five months now. We joke around about telling people we met at a bar or through a friend, but honestly I know I would have never met a man as amazing and wonderful as him through any friend or co-worker. My best dating experiences have been with men I’ve met online and I’d strongly suggest it to anyone interested.