The Latest In Online Dating – A Virtual Wingman

Alpha Female/Beta Male

Ten years ago, meeting someone online was considered a loser move.  Only the truly desperate, very ugly and really perverted were found lurking on dating websites.  The conventional wisdom stated you would not find a soul mate or the love of your life in that massive group of anonymous scum.

Times have changed.

It seems everyone who is single and looking has an ad on Match.Com, JDate (where I have a post) or EHarmony.  Dating websites, once dismissed by the mainstream, now advertise their services on TV.  The stigma of meeting your next significant other online has vanished.  According to a 2005 study by Online Publisher’s Association and comScore Networks, American’s now spend over $500 million a year on dating sites.  It is the largest ‘paid content’ segment online, even bigger than Internet pornography.

Online dating, just like the rest of technology, evolved.  Instead of writing a profile, posting and praying someone will answer, the 2009 revolution in online matchmaking is Virtual Dating Assistants.  They do all the work to find busy Alpha men the right match.  As profiled on UrbanDaddy.com, VDA becomes your marketing guru/wingman in the dating world.  They write your personal ad, answer the tough questions and woo the proper female for you.

Alpha men have VDA. Beta men are stuck in 2002, at least for the next six months.