Online Dating Demise by Siera our Dating Coach for Singles and Couples

Online dating sites were slow to be adopted by singles when they were first introduced to the marketplace.  Now, it’s one of the largest industries and has expanded to mobile apps for even more possibility of romance.

Like other tools created for easy socialization in this digital marketplace, research experts are now finding that, following the tide of other social media forms, online dating is contributing to a disconnect in real life, decrease in social skills, and even becoming another source for addiction.

You add in the fact that pursuing hundreds of profiles, and wading through dozen of insipid messages from fakes, frauds, and spam takes a whole lot of time; and you’ll quickly see the reason for the rise in matchmaking services across the country.  Matchmaking services are no longer for the rich and famous. Today firms are catering to professionals and executives that find the task of online dating daunting; and don’t have the energy to go out socializing and networking as much as they should if they intend to meet potential dates.

There is now a wide range of personal dating and matchmaking service oriented firms that are available in every part of the US.  National conferences have sprung up and even training and certification programs.

“We help the average, career focused man by acting as essentially a head hunter for his love life.  We will do all the searching, vett them, interview them, and then chose who is worth meeting,” shared Siera, a dating/relationship coach and professional matchmaker in the Tampa Bay area.  “People still want to find love, but don’t trust algorithms and potentially false profiles anymore,” points out Siera. “My clients biggest complaints are that they are meeting people who look nothing like their pictures, are ‘gold diggers’, or are just totally not the kind of person personality wise that they would be attracted to.  These are the things I eliminate.”

Like any booming industry, you find a natural rise in popularity and acceptance.  At some point, the specific dynamic of it needs to change with a rapidly changing marketplace.  Forms of more personal matchmaking are certainly becoming more widely used by singles that are typically over 35.  In some larger more metropolitan areas, such as New York City, unattached men and women are reaching out to get the intervention of an expert in their 20s.

While there certainly will always be a place for online dating, and no doubt plenty of users, it too will need to make some shifts to try and capture more serious relationship minded individuals who lack time and patience for all the skimming and trolling.  Online dating is definitely here to stay.  What will the next version look like?