Dating on Internet on the Rise

There are many skeptics who discouraged or opined against the use of online dating service for looking for a date. Internet entered into our lives with a lot of inquisitive visits. People knew that it was a latest communication technology but few knew about the impact it was going to have on their lives.

In the starting phase Internet was not easily accessible and quite costly to use, hence it was hardly seen to be as productive as it has become now. There was lot of hesitancy in using Internet and the same applied to the Internet dating sites that had come up then.

The inquisitive visits brought in a gradual understanding of the Net. Subsequently the fact that Internet was a powerful media began to surface. Internet initially was devised for messaging and communication over telephone lines turned commercial in the last decade. It is now a medium for information transfer, messaging, audiovisual impacts, and online business to short list a few. The magnitude of Internet's power is indescribable.

Dating also went online and it is now days called as online dating or Internet dating. The Net has brought in a paradigm shift as to how we date. The preliminary hesitancy in using the Internet dating site to search for dating partner has now vanished. Large number of single men and women are going in for online dating. This is due many reasons elaborated in my earlier articles.

The starting fear of scammers has also reduced to a large extent due to an impressive number of testimonials that where written on dating sites by those successful in online dating. The instances of singles becoming couples are on the increase – single women and men who have found their mate online. This is encouraging more and more people to join online dating and matchmaking services.