Maybe it's just me but I don't see the point or how they ever work. Seems like the only winner is the phone company.

I've actually met some nice ladies on the 'net but what good does it do? I'm in Florida and they're in California, New York or wherever. Long way to travel for a first 'real' date.

I'm sure there are success stories and I don't mean to sound cynical, but life seems so much more simple when you can just say, 'meet me for a drink after work?' to a girl that happens to live five miles from you.

Guess I just need to spend more time locally in the real World and not rely on the net. I'm sure there's a fine lady within a ten-minute radius that would like to meet up with me. Relationships and dating are hard enough without adding the 'far-far away' factor.

Opinions?