Finding a mate is a numbers game, pure and simple.  Online dating facilitates meeting X women in Y amount of time. One typically starts of with requirements {a, b, c} but then as they go along they figure out that their requirements are in reality {b, d, e, ...}. The qualities {a, c} just weren&#x27;t that important.<p>Source: I tried online dating off an on for years, met my wife on pof. ymmv