Online Dating Vs. Traditional Dating
ONLINE
- Put your best face forward
When you create an account and set up a profile with an online dating service you have the opportunity to really think about what you want to say, and choose how others will receive the vital first impression of you.
- Review and analyze profiles before contacting
You can easily search and filter your potential mates with online databases. Look for certain age ranges, location, and even narrow to hair color or religious beliefs.
- Extensive in-depth profiles of potential matches
When you find potential matches you can see many various matching qualities. Depending on the dating service, they may even match you with your best qualified candidates based on scientific personality studies.
- Less pressure with first contact
Who needs the pressure of an opening line in a bar? You can easily communicate with online dating matches through email and chat.
- Sense of connection before face-to-face meeting
Before you ever meet your best matches you can gain a sense of connection through the email communication sent back and forth. Meeting in person becomes an anticipated event.
- Less waste of time
When you are at a bar and try to approach a person in whom you are interested, you may get rejected time after time. An evening can be a total waste if you don't meet someone or get a phone number.
With online dating you slowly make a connection and know for sure when you can focus your attention on a live date.
TRADITIONAL
- Meet face-to-face
With traditional dating you meet and start to get to know each other face-to-face. Many argue that there is no comparison with actual one-on-one live communication.
- Instant connection
When you meet in person you can almost always tell if there is a connection with the other person. With online dating it may take days, weeks, even months, before you actually feel a connection with another online dating match.
- Body language
There is little translation needed for body language. Whether it is subliminal or consciously subtle, you can identify certain body language signs that tell you whether a potential mate is interested in you.
- Love at first sight
Although photos can be a nice introduction to a person online, it is no substitute for actually seeing a "whole" person. Love at first sight
exists and you can't find that online.