20 Million Available Singles

We all appreciate what online dating is trying to do for the world of available singles, but one thing is confusing us in particular with the statistics of a handful of dating sites. One thing has to considered, do you really need 20 million people to find the right available single for you?

Online dating is no different from any other dating service. It’s an industry that supplies a service to match two people and the requirement for online dating has seen it grow by at least 50% each year since 2003.

But we have one question, if you join a site that has 20 million members, does this increase or reduce your chances of finding your match? The more the merrier some might say, others may suggest that you may not be able to see the woods through the trees and more may create confusion instead of clarity. Some sites are focusing on an area of expertise, or are catering for an area of the market that requires something specific. This is an important contribution to the online dating sector since it gives some realism to your selective choice.

If we had to choose from 20 million available singles from one site, do you know how long that would take? We would say that we would lose 5 years of our lives trawling through e-mails, profiles and anything else that the online dating site required we look at. Are you aware that 20 million is twice the population of Australia? In taking these details into account, the specialists should be arguing that less is more and quality singles exceed the quantity of available singles.

We all know that online dating is about matching two people together, but surely it’s the quality of the site, its clarity, independence and commitment to its market that ensures that two people find romance, or whatever they desire. Does online dating have a danger of going the same way as the local stores when the Super Nationals came along and created SUPER MEGA WORLD STORE’S?

Will we lose the exclusive sites to one monster that controls the destiny of every available single person out there? I don’t think so. Online dating is about seeing that the member gets the quality match he or she is looking for. People are not cattle, wheeling them in and wheeling them out will only create a site for those who will never be able to decide which one is the right one.