[birken]

All online dating does is give you a huge channel to meet new people that you'll know you have some baseline compatibility with. It doesn't replace most aspects of dating, but if are having trouble meeting people you are interested in, online dating is a good way to augment the pool of people you meet in your normal life.

My experience with online dating wasn't that it "solves" dating, nor does it make dating fun all of the sudden, but the people I met via online dating were better matches than the people I was meeting elsewhere. I've had friends who had the opposite experience. I'd say online dating is worth trying if you are single just to see what it is like.

And, in SF at least, there is certainly no stigma associated with it. Most people I know who are actively dating at least casually use one dating site/app.

[btbuildem]

> some baseline compatibility

ie. willing to and expecting to data