What's wrong with all those dating sites?
mdakin: Semirecently got out of a long relationship.  So long that I was basically a kid when it started and if there was such a thing as a dating site on the Internet at the time I knew nothing about it.I've not tried any dating sites.  Why?1.  The factors that attract me to a girl are difficult to quantify and encode digitally.  But relatively easy to sense in a face-to-face interaction.2.  I trust my own senses and instincts more than second or third parties when it comes to gleaning truthful information about someone.  I am confident in my ability to read people in face-to-face situations.  Why put a computer in the middle given that it essentially hobbles that critical ability?3.  I believe seconds/minutes/hours spent messing around with dating websites would be better spent out in the wild meeting, hanging out with and getting to know girls in person.4.  I suspect "permanently single" people are disproportionately attracted to these various tools and I'm better off fishing from a random sample to find who I'm looking for rather than a negatively biased sample.  Or, ideally, I'm better fishing from a better-than-random sample biased, for example, by people I know and trust in the real world and THEIR extended circles of friends.5.  I strongly suspect that the hypothetical girl I like is basically feeling the same way and taking the same approach that I am.Perhaps I'm off-base.  And perhaps I will modify my views with time but this is what keeps me away from such sites currently.