So I have a bf who I actually met thru online dating and I'm helping my friend now try and do the same. She's pretty attractive and gets an insane number of messages. My bf's brother is also trying the online dating game. He's about as equally attractive on the male side but he has received far fewer messages and a good number of the girls he's written to don't answer back. My friend, on the other hand, never fails to get a reply.

So sucks for guys and great for girls... right. To an extent yes there's no doubt. But here's the thing: a huge number of the guys who message my friend fall into the following categories: physically just not sufficiently attractive regardless of intention, jobless or in a low-paying career (she cares about this a lot whether you think girls should or shouldn't, most do), attractive-ish but clearly only interested in sex, or reasonably attractive, with a decent job but very, very boring.

I have 'lower' standards than her for looks and job (although my bf makes a good salary and is very cute lol) but I was still struck by how little quality there was. So when you hear that girls receive a mountain of messages, just imagine you were getting 12 a day but they were all from girls who were 300 pounds or okay or even hot looking girls but ones who only wanted to cuddle and never have sex lol. You wouldn't feel like you had so many awesome options.

Not saying online dating is not harder for guys. All in all, it is. But you do have a chance if you can use quality to cut through the quantity.