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When you’re done with meeting people in pubs and clubs, your friends’ friends are all either taken or un-datable, there’s no one decent at work and you’ve pretty much given up, there are really only two options left – internet dating, and more recently speed dating.

Internet Dating

For…

• You can read all about the person first
• You can see their photos first
• You can start slowly with email or instant messaging
• There is a plentiful supply of potential partners

Against…

• People can (and do!) lie in their profiles
• People only put their best photos online, sometimes quite old!
• Some people like to spend a month emailing before they’ll agree to meet up (if ever)
• There may be something wrong with everyone on there…

Speed Dating

For…

• You get to speak to the person face to face
• You get an idea of what they’re like very quickly
• It’s only ten minutes or so, so you don’t have to come up with too much chit chat
• They can’t hide behind misleading photos!

Against…

• There’s generally a much smaller pool of girls
• You have to move on when the bell rings, regardless
• There may be something wrong with everyone there…

I’ve done both internet dating and speed dating, and really they’re both very different. Internet dating is more of a lazy method, in that you can sit back and pick through hundreds of profiles, only emailing the ones you’re interested in. With speed dating, you have to sit down and speak to each and every girl there, you can’t just pick and choose who to talk with!

I can’t recall how many girls I’ve been out with via internet dating, but I do know that I’ve been out with three girls from speed dating. One of the speed dating girls was rubbish and resulted in only one date, the second one was okay and we had dinner a few times but nothing more, and the last one was really great! We went out a few times and she once stayed at my place overnight, but then she got back with her ex-boyfriend. Bummer…

I’d have to say that girls from speed dating are generally more serious about finding someone than girls from internet dating. I guess it comes back to what I mentioned earlier about internet dating being the more lazy of the two options.

From a cost point of view, internet dating is definitely better value. For the price you pay to meet eight to ten girls at speed dating you will get around the same amount of paid contacts on an internet dating site (depending on which one you use). But… With speed dating you don’t choose the girls, with internet dating you do! With speed dating your money is gone after a few hours, with internet dating your money may last you weeks or months depending on how many girls/guys you contact.

I couldn’t say which one is better or which one is more likely to be successful, I’d say give both a try! What I can say is that lately I’ve been sticking with internet dating, but I don’t know if that means internet dating is better or I’m just lazy!