Internet Dating

     Internet dating to me is looked and perceived in two ways. One way i look at internet dating is that it is an excellent and extremely helpful tool for people who are shy or want to ease themselves back into the dating scene for whatever reason they have that they were gone. The other way i look at internet dating is it is sometimes scary,unreliable, and even creepy way to find someone that you want to essentially spend time with and even create a future with. I personally would much rather go out somewhere or just go to places I go anyway like convenience store or library or school and approach a girl and talk to her and ask for her number and get to know her that way instead of trusting in an internet ad and wondering if it is even true that this person is actually a women! But i understand that their are plenty of people that find just approaching a member of the opposite sex for no reason and carrying on a normal conversation with them in hopes to "get her number" and talk to her more is just simply beyond them and couldn't even imagine it. The reason i would rather do this is because at least this way i know that at least this person is visually who they say they are and in spending time and talking with that person i can tell if they are someone i would want to bring into my life. One thing that some people do not like about dating services is allot of people think that they are racist against gays. One website that gets the better part of the bashing on the subject of gay discrimination is e-harmony. A couple reasons people say that e-harmony is excluding gays is because the founder Neil Clark Warren is a conservative  christian who is "a man who apparently thinks gays are some kind of a different species." e-harmony is not the only website that seems like it excludes gays from their website but they are the leading website in finding a partner so they are going to get most of the blow back from this. Their are allot of cool things about internet dating that have recently been added though. The one that i found the most interesting is that their is a website where two persons can create avatars for themselves and go out on a virtual date together on a couple of different scenarios. For instance one scenario would be a walk in the park or going to see a movie together and you can go on this date from the comfort of your own home eliminating the worry of an akword conversation or saying the wrong thing because you were nervous. And you can even ask for a kiss at the end of your virtual date.