My Online Dating Service didn't work!

Most online dating services are open to nearly anyone who wants to try them, but the overall success rate of people finding a lasting relationship is less than 10%. So if this is such a great way to meet people, why is there such a high rate of failure when using online dating services?

Society
The first thing that you have to keep in mind is that for the last 20 years, as we have evolved as a society (for better or worse) we have become obsessed with having as many choices as possible. We have over 200 channels on TV and there is never anything we want on, but when there were only 10 channels, people always found something to enjoy. You can pick from over 100 different cell phones to help you stay connected to the world, dozens of internet service providers, and the list goes on. In short, we have become the pickiest generation in existence. With all these choices it is very easy to lose the forest for the trees. When you dive head first into one of the over 300 online dating services sites on the web you need to remember that nobody is perfect. Everyone there will have a listing of qualities, physical attributes, income (sometimes), interests and a bunch of other stuff that in the past people didn't know about until they already started to develop a relationship with them. If you are so inflexible that you will dismiss any potential match who is not perfect in every single way than you are destined to be very lonely for a very long time.

Carelessness
There is almost nothing worse than getting passed over by a potential date because your profile is filled with careless errors. When your potential date reads your profile and finds it full of spelling errors and poor grammar, you can almost guarantee rejection. By not checking for these stupid and easy to fix problems with your online dating service profile you look a lot less intelligent than you are and also that you don't really care about meeting someone because you didn't even put in the effort to read what you wrote before you posted it on the online dating service site. I mean what woman is going to want a man who is looking for an intelligent lady when they can't even spell intelligent?

Your best bet to solve this problem is to cut and paste the text of your profile into a word processing program and run a spell and grammar check. This will help with the glaring mistakes. But you might still miss some incorrect words like if you typed "form" when you mean to type "from." If you are still not sure about your profile, there are several professionals on the net, like ProfileHelper, who will be happy to help you make the most of your online dating service.

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