Love and Dating on the Information Highway

The numbers are staggering. At any time of day or night there are singles in the millions from all over the world logged into Internet dating and chat room websites.

Many of these singles have paid good money for the right to use all of the services that the sites offer. Services such as instant communication with singles around the globe, the browsing and filing of personal profiles, sending a "tease" message, posting and browsing through photos of eager and hopeful singles, and more.

Smart Internet operators long ago realized that folks from all walks of life, from all over the planet, are willing to pay for the opportunity to communicate with and to meet, at least virtually, someone who may turn out to be the partner thay have been dreaming about.

Dating sites products revenues only exceeded by gambling and porn sites. The reasons that these type of sites do so well financially are very similiar.

Humans are hard wired from birth to be social creatures and to reproduce themselves. The survival of the human race depends upon a good strong healthy sex drive and the need for human interaction which neatly sums up the appeal of dating and porn sites. They simply help people to find what they already have a strong interest in.

People also seem to want a way to make "easy money" and crave entertainment and excitement. That pretty well sums up the vast appeal and profitability of the gambling sites.

In short, when you supply a service or product that is universally in demand due to deep seated human cravings you are on course to create a profitable venture. There are some moral issues involved in some things, like drugs, gambling, and porn, but we won't venture there in this brief article.

One can quickly get into some hot, passionate conversations about how much control governments should have in "protecting" it's citizens from what they really want to do. We just won't go there, at least for now.

As a business person as long as you deliver a high demand service or product at a reasonable standard of quality and let people know that you have what they are looking for you are going to have a good business and should be able to forge healthy profits.

The exciting thing about the Internet is that for the first time ever your service or product can be delivered worldwide at very low costs compared to any other distribution system.

No doubt that the Internet is helping to create a new class of wealthy information age businessmen. Especially those who create high quality online dating and chat room sites which seem to only be growing in popularity and acceptability as a way to meet your mate.