Many cater to individual tastes - there are sites for gays, Jews, Christians, equestrians, millionaires, Hispanics and old white people. Like people, they come in all shapes and sizes. No one really knows how many there are but the answer is somewhere in the thousands. One thing's for sure - there's no shortage of dating sites. What it comes down to is that there are risks in everything so as long as you take the obvious precautions - don't meet strangers in dark places, don't send money to someone you've never met and don't reveal all your personal information in a single gush - online dating is probably less dangerous than crossing a busy street or trying to clean out your gutters on a windy day. But the same is true of just about any other method of meeting people. You could meet people you don't like, people who don't like you, people who are boring or even downright dangerous. Just like other means of meeting candidates for romance, dating sites are fraught with peril. They're not perfect but they're better than ordering brides by mail or submitting to your mother's idea of who your perfect match is. But as a review of literature stretching back to cave drawings will tell you, meeting - and hanging onto - the right person isn't all that easy. After all, the world is full of them and they're fairly evenly divided in terms of gender, height and so forth.
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