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Another thing I've learned to add to this is many people I think have an unrealistic expectation of how easy actually meeting and building a connection to through the Internet actually is. This is not like developing a relationship with someone that lives in the same town as you and you could at least pass by them and say hello on a somewhat regular basis. You are limited to texting, you may live in places so far apart that both of you may find it infeasible to physically meet often enough unless you two are just already super into each other and ready to make the financial expense just to travel to each other often enough. Then there is general suspicion as to whether or not the person is a scammer or some dude in East Asia pretending to be a woman, a bot, gamification of the websites, ect. Before getting into those statistics you mentioned which are just standard in normal IRL courtship and rating who is attractive, online dating throws in all these other issues that IRL interaction don't have. Like striking a conversation with the barista at Starbucks you think is cute. At least I know the girl at Starbucks is not some dude in the Philippines trying to harvest information to sell to data brokers or other Internet shenanigans. Not an Onlyfans hustler trying to get money from me pretending to work at Starbucks as a rouse. She's just a normal everyday person working at a coffee shop. None of this other nonsense to worry about. Say hello, one of us flirts and maybe give their number, blah blah and so forth. Much of us are just not gonna have that straight forward with online dating. My conclusion: Honestly communities just need to start getting more invested in local dating / meet up events or something. Make more of an effort to strike conversation and get to know people that live in your community so you two can get friendly enough to hang out or something. Even if it does not end up in a romantic relationship, at least it results in more of us having a couple extra friends where we live.