If you are someone who believes there are plenty of fish in the sea, then using speed dating will help you cast your net as widely as possible in a very short time. If you are not familiar, the practice works just as the name implies: Each participant spends from three to five minutes talking with each date. At the end of this time the men move on to the next date, usually meeting up to 20 dates in one night.
After college graduation it can be difficult to find a readily available supply of acceptable singles to date. It is not usually recommended to date people that you work with, so if you don’t belong to a church, civic, or volunteer organization, there aren’t many options available to you. This usually means you will have to find people to date at the local bars and clubs.
Speed dating touts the safeness of the public meeting places usually chosen for the meetings - bars or restaurants. This is true, and these settings also allow people to feel more comfortable as they talk with each other. Although the time is short, there is no meat market atmosphere. Instead, speed dating is conducive to the short chat, which for most people, is just long enough to determine if there is any interest.
At the end of the speed dating event, everyone moves from their seats to the bar to mingle and chat further. If you don’t want to exchange details at the event you can always login later and see who you match with and exchange emails.
Speed dating allows one the opportunity to meet as many as twenty potential dates in one night in a fairly safe and easy, low-pressure fashion. It is not necessary to choose just one date immediately. Also, unlike in the bar scene, there is no danger of getting stuck with an obnoxious partner for more than a few minutes.
In fact, many a girls night out has been ruined by an ill-mannered man who could not-or would not-read the clues that the women were not interested in him. If you or your girlfriends spent an evening speed dating, you would not have to worry about such an intrusion.
When meeting potential mates at school or work just isn’t an option, and you don’t have time to go out to dinner with every guy in your age group, why not try speed dating? You can meet up to 20 new people every night, it’s in a safe and friendly environment, and you can even use it as a fun girls night out. Think of all the usual perils of singles dating that you’ll avoid: getting stuck with a bore, being pressured by persistent guys, and lack of selection. Get more out of life - try dating the speedy way!
- Jill Masters