Nexus said:
Also a nod for match.com which is where I met my girlfriend.
My bit of advice would be that it still has some aspects of real world dating to it. As a guy you can't just sit there and expect girls to contact you, though you may get winks. Make sure you have a really well written profile with some good photos of you along with photos of you that show you somewhere interesting or doing something interesting.
Then contact the women you like, but don't send a generic 'cut & pasted' e-mail to every girl. Instead, look at the girl's profile and pick up on something interesting to say to her.
Spot-on.
If you'll have any kind of luck at all depends on just how serious you take the whole thing.
I started with a search in and around a radius of where I live.
I then narrowed things down - mainly age (as I didn't really want to meet anybody excessively older or younger than myself) and I also didn't want to meet anyone with kids (just myown choice at the time).
I then took the time to read through exactly what the posters had to say - those people who had obviously taken the time to fill in their profiles I flagged and went back to.
I only ever wrote to a maximum of two people at any one time (usually just one) and the reply was personalised around what they had to say about themselves - nothing really generic.
A few things in the profiles you can obviously work around (as in real life) so if you like cinema and they like theatre.
Or you look Indian food they like Italian etc.
There will also be much bigger differences in some areas and you may or may not be able to work around those (again as in real life).
As for regards my fiancee.
We exchanged e-mails for about a week, then moved onto IM and we met up together for the first time around about a month after we'd exchanged that first e-mail.
The rest as they say is history.