I see on TV and in the movies about how people are meeting on line and it is as mainstream as meeting via friends or a party. The reality is that as we age, we are less likely to meet new people.
So on line dating would SEEM to be the solution.
The problem as it has been mentioned so many times is that the people that would never have used the pesonals are now using them via the computer and these people are the type that would not normally date using a personals ad.
So what we now have is the bar crowd that is too old for the bar scene since they are no longer in their 20's and 30's and they bring their shallowness to the world of the Personals dating