I dated pretty much exclusively with match.com pick-ups for several years before tying the knot two years ago. Met my wife on-line also. Much better than the bar scene girls who always seem to have issues. Just so many to choose from and fairly easy to set something up.
I usually would write a catchy letter to start, and be sure to personalize it and not write some generic stuff, as they can pick up on that fairly easily. After two or three letters you usually graduate to the phone stage and after a call or two you meet. Very simple game, as Charlie Eckman used to say (old time Baltimorons will get that reference).
You go to a bar and you might have 10-20 possible ones you would like to meet, yet you can sit at home on your computer and choose from thousands. No comparison.