The Dating Game-Changer

Why Group Dinners are Replacing the World of Internet Dating

You’re browsing through people, and the scanning and picking is fun, like you’re online shopping. However, you’re shopping for a date; checking out their array of photos, interests, job, and education, everything to find that “perfect” person. You find that person, and superficially they sound like a great match. Sure, he’s cute…I guess I could enjoy playing squash and rock collecting; I mean he’s a doctor, you think. Once you arrive at the date, the first thing you think of is how impressed you are with the technology improvements of Photoshop. But, who’s going to be rude and leave? It’s too late to “return your purchase!” You give it a chance, but conversation is dull, and you’re stuck. It’s just the two of you, alone together for the most awkward next few hours of your life. And how do you really know who this stranger is?

With online dating, the lack of an outside source to help allows you to sway your own likes and interests just to go out with someone that you think is The One. Although you do have your own profile, you basically act as your own matchmaker, and that can be a sticky situation. Who knows who you are actually going to meet, and if you’ll enjoy their company? Who knows if you’re even going to be safe?

Group dinner and dating services are your safety net compared to the scary free-fall of online dating. With someone other than yourself there to match you up with compatible, yet diverse people, you have more of a chance to meet a new date, or even just an awesome new friend. An objective source helps to weed out the people who wouldn’t be right for you, as a friend or as a date. And if you don’t like the person, you’re not stuck with just them for the rest of the night. Seven other possible friends and dates are there to mingle with, taking the pressure off and relieving the tension, as well as providing a safe, yet fun environment. Sounds like the perfect first date…a group of seven others, on similar professional and educational levels as you, matched up just right to complement each other and provide good conversation.

On those rare occasions, online dating does work, but that’s by chance, and online dating is pretty much just that: a game of chance. You never truly know who you’re going to end up with, alone, and that can be scary as well as frustrating. Group dinners are a safer, more relaxed way to branch out and can much more effectively find those who you connect with, using an unbiased outside source. So give up on the “online shopping”, since the products are questionable, and go for the fun, safe, exciting new experience of group dinners.