Fed up with online dating

November 27, 2007 – 7:39 am

With social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace now in the digital dating mix, there are plenty of new chances to meet the right — and wrong — people online.
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Grayson Currin, 24, of Durham, North Carolina, who describes himself as a “big, burly guy,” posted his band’s photograph on his MySpace account and started getting messages from a girl in Canada who had a thing for large, hairy guys. “It felt a little unnatural to me,” says Currin. “I don’t send messages to random girls. I think that’s creepy.”

Jennifer Kelton, a Los Angeles-based writer and creator of the social networking and dating site BadOnlineDates.com maintains that social networking sites offer an attractive alternative to more established online dating sites like Match.com or eHarmony.

“People are fed up with the online dating world,” says Kelton. “They realize that there is a lot of misrepresentation out there. On a social networking site you are interfacing with people on a different level. Facebook and MySpace create more of a safe and loving environment,” she contends.

People are gravitating more to social networks to find potential partners, however what a lot of people fail to notice, is that social networks are like Wal Mart when it comes to online dating. Social networks will work perfectly for finding a hookup, but I would be more then surprised to see people finding a lasting relationship there. Think of online dating as a sniper shot on love, where as facebook and myspace are the shotgun approach. Dating sites do have a lot to learn when it comes to mapping relationships, and user freedom.

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