80/20 Rule of Online Dating

If you've paid any attention to dating news lately, you'd know that the online dating business has to be one of the fastest growing markets on the internet. There are literally hundreds of new online dating sties popping up every week. There are dating sites that cover every possible niche from large free bare bones sites like Plenty of Fish to small niche sites for people who want to cheat on their wives or husbands. It's crazy!

So here's the thing, despite the huge market for online dating, I feel that there is a bit of a myth that is attached to the entire industry, one that is quite misleading in my opinion. So what's this big myth? It's that online dating is easy when in reality it's probably quite a bit harder than dating and picking up women in real life.

Have you ever heard of the 80/20 rule? The 80/20 rule, in regards to the dating world, basically states that only about 20 percent of the available men are dating 80 percent of the available women. The reason for this has to do with the small group of alpha males. Because they are the cream of the crop, they get more choice and are able to go out and date multiple women, where as the rest of the 80 percent of beta males are not really dating anyone.

So what does the 80/20 rule have to do with online dating? Because it applies to the online dating world as much as real life except it is far more skewed. I would go so far as to say that online rule is more like 95/5 where only 5 percent of the men are dating 95 percent of the women. The reason for this is because dating online has made the process of being more "choosey" a high through-put process.

Because it's easier for the alpha males to target and amass more potential dates and it's easier for attractive women to be more selective (i.e. - blowing off beta males more efficiently), the online dating game has severely skewed the 80/20 rule.

The problem is, the dating industry doesn't want us know this, or else all the beta males who believe they have a better chance to get a girlfriend with online dating as opposed to real life dating, will keep shelling out their hard earned dollars for a chance at love.

So how does an average male get around these ridiculous odds? It's not simple, it's hard work just like anything else, but in concept you need to become one of the online alpha males. Think about it. If you can get in that top 5% of guys that are dating 95% of the women, then you've basically struck gold.