According to the Pew Research Center, three in ten US adults have used dating sites.

With this many millions of people using dating sites to find someone to date, it makes any perceived weirdness in using dating sites somewhat ill-conceived.

Sure, in the beginning, it was off-putting.

In fact, the early years of online dating were fraught with stigmas.

There was a general consensus that people who used dating sites were social dregs incapable of finding partners through normal social channels.

The bottom of the barrel of society so to speak.

The people with no social circle or social acumen.

Yes, this was the prevailing consensus among people in the early years of online dating.

That consensus has since changed.

Internet dating sites have become a lot more mainstream.

So many people use them, or knows someone in their social circle who does.

These are people that you are around in some capacity in your daily life.

The bus driver that drove you to your destination.

The cashier that cashed you out at your favorite deli.

The waiter that served your favorite dish at your favorite restaurant.

Your boss at work or the coworker sitting in the next cubicle to yours.

The gym attendant that signed you up for your latest gym membership, or the gym buddy that helps you with your reps.

The next-door neighbor that you exchange pleasantries with from time to time.

The barber that cuts your hair every few weeks.

Dating sites are so pervasive, you are around people who are using them each and every day and you aren’t even aware of it.

Are any of these individuals weird to you?

Do you think your pleasant neighbor to be weird?

How about the gym buddy that helps you with your reps?

Is he weird?

The thing is, online dating and online dating sites are a part of the zeitgeist of the technologically advanced society we now live in.

When was the last time you used an app on your smartphone to make an order?

So convenient.

There was a time when this technology didn’t exist and you had to do everything.

No food in the fridge?

Tough.

You had to go to the store and buy the food.

Car in the shop for repairs?

Tough.

You either had to take the bus or beg a friend for a ride to get to work.

Not anymore.

Now, with technology, you are ordering groceries through a grocery store app on your smartphone instead of having to physically go to a grocery store.

Instead of taking a bus, or begging a friend for a ride to work, you are ordering a rideshare through a rideshare app on your smartphone.

Think about how people from the old days would think of all this.

Weird.

Yet, we don’t think it weird.

Because we have moved forward with the times.

Dating sites are no different.

There was a time where you had to go to a bar, nightclub, or house party to meet potential partners.

Now, thanks to technology, a potential partner is on a dating app on your smartphone, a right swipe away.

Nothing about this is weird.

It’s advancement.