Singles ads on Facebook

I'm currently a single man, reflected on my Facebook page, because I have no particular shame about it. I'm slightly taken aback though by the volume of ads I see on Facebook for "single girls", "looking for a date?", "meet a girl like this!", and just now, rather scarily, "Chinese Women for Love".

One site was plugging "girls date for free", which I'm sure may appeal to some men and women, but the cynic in me just has doubts about it - it'll surely be swamped by women who have no qualms about throwing themselves into a gigantic pool of other women (powerful image), despite the knowledge that the numbers of available men will probably be tiny. Plus any men on that site will most likely only be on there because they figure the ratio of women to men will be so in their favour that they can't fail to find someone, anyone, please, etc.

I think it just sums up my general attitude to online dating - of course it works for people (no-one I know directly, but a few friends of friends have had success), but my overwhelming feeling towards it is that the online dating world is full of desperate flawed people, clutching at the final few straws available to them before age takes its inevitable lonely toll.

Chirpy, I know. And the stupid thing is that I know that's not a particularly fair, or indeed accurate way of looking at it, but it's a constant niggling thought in the back of my head I can't quite shift. So I'll continue to trawl the bars and back alleys of the real world for desperate flawed people, because that makes it easier to pretend I'm not one of them...