Love Connection

I have friends and friends of friends who have met/fell in love with/married someone that they met on the internet. While I thought it was nice for them, I never thought I would venture into that domain (pun intended).

But last month after the umpteenth commercial for eHarmony I thought, what do I really have to lose? Besides the $60 it costs, of course. But maybe I should go back and tell you what proceeded this thought.

I am still single and while I felt like I was actively looking, there were no men in sight. The bar scene is played out and I never really went out there to actually meet anyone anyway. I was hoping that I would just meet someone fun and interesting randomly...maybe at the grocery store or at a friend of a friend's party where we were both in line for the washroom at the same time. But I began to realize that this wasn't really an active search for a guy; this was passing the buck to fate.

So, like I said, I gave in and signed up for eHarmony with fingers and toes crossed. Instantly I was matched with twenty guys in my area and I felt almost gleeful. I mean there are potentially 20 guys who are compatible with me? Wow! The whole time I thought that I was the last of a dying breed.

As the weeks passed and I began communicating with them, I realized that even as the number of matches increased, I wasn't necessarily getting closer to meeting Mr. Right. So, I cast my net wider and put a profile on another site as well. Suddenly, I am Internet Dating Summer and I actually kind of like it.

I've only been on a couple dates thus far with guys I've met online. I was surprised how nice and normal these guys are - not the crazy computer geeks I imagined pre-ID (internet dating). I am not sure if any of these guys are going to be the One for me but I am happy that I have gone from having zero options to many. I realized that by not allowing myself to accept the internet as a viable medium I was only isolating myself in a world that is more and more isolationist.

Life is too short not to try and make a connection. So for my fellow girls of singledom, throw away your preconceptions and click your way to a potential love connection!