Chat rooms can be a head ache. Blind dates are better off left to the blind. Meeting some one in a crowded dark, loud, and smokey club just bring the wrong people into your life. Finding the right person driving down the road, meeting at the mall or at a college class is like playing the lottery.
Online dating is a good place to start. You find a quality photo, set up a good subject line, put in all of your likes and dislikes, and finally start receiving request.
The one thing about online dating is that you truly don't know who you are emailing back and forth. Even when you get to meet them in person, you have no idea if they are truly single, going through a wicked divorce, or even if they have kids or not. You just have to take their word for it.
The best thing anyone can do if they can find some quality time to connect with that perfect someone is to go to a traditional dating service. Believe me its worth the extra time to have a true professional that knows how to sort out the good apples from the bad and give some quality back ground information on who you will be going out with.
It's worth investing time upfront to find some one you could potentially spend the rest of your life with. Don't you want to know if the have been arrested, if they are who they say they are? Than be careful and get some professional assistance. As it's to scary out there to take dating into your own hands.