First of all, many online daters could possibly be seen as more serious with their intent. They are arguably more focused on finding someone than the general single person who doesn’t do online dating. Online daters are actively seeking someone to date/mate. By signing up for a dating website and actively using it, they are effectively “putting themselves out there” in the search to find a match. Even if the offline dater is active in searching for someone, no single service makes more singles accessible to them than online dating. Work, bars, speed dating, matchmakers — none could come close to the numbers. By sheer volume, the online dater has more prospective people to access who are also looking for marriage. They can further hone in exactly who those other serious daters are. Other singletons may be interested in dating but don’t take as many active steps to finding someone as the online dater does. This means their dating behavior is more roundabout and they must spend more time ($) dating to find the right person to marry.