[pangram]

Dating does suck, absolutely.

But fundamentally it's a numbers game -- the more people you meet, the more likely that you'll find someone that you're compatible with on enough levels. To that end I think that online dating can be really helpful: it makes it much easier to find many other people that you know are also (presumably and hopefully) single.

So, dating sites don't necessarily make dating suck less, they just make it more likely that, with enough effort, you'll be able to stop dating.

[jaems33]

I actually think that works against certain people. You think you have a huge inventory of people to choose from so you are additionally more discriminating. In real life, the selection is generally much more narrow.