After months alone, I have joined the virtual world and turned on my desktop to find a lover to live my life with. I am weary of smelly pubs and pointless conversation about nothing that matters. It's time to get serious about finding a partner, and it seems that the internet is the only place where I may have a chance.

Online dating is a fad. It took the world by storm and is a common fragment of life right through the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. It may not have crashed into the Middle East as yet, but will, eventually.

I ask myself, why are people so taken by online dating? I have to admit I tend to look at online dating as a rather seamy fad for the recluse. But, then again, I've been single for a whole year. And who am i to call it seedy if someone wants to make friends with someone else?

Yes, there are, undoubtedly, individuals who get online dating sites to sort out a seedier need. Many, though, are taken by the idea of meeting new friends just to learn of other cultures with someone abroad.

We eat, sleep and breathe to work. We pile up in colossal towns but have no time to date. Our cities are bulging with lonely folk trying to find other loners, but its just too damn expensive to get out there and mix with the crowd.

Finding new friends in nightclubs is almost hardly worth the trouble too. And most often chit chat is either inaudible over the deafening dj or meaningless after a few drinks.

We, who live in the big global cities, have no chance to find fellow humans. So we make friends on the web.

There are others still who seek out these sites to have fun. Such sites are bulging with the most tall biographies and videos - anything will do to find the attention people are craving for.

So, the mission has begun. And I am taking it very seriously. I first visited my online psychic reader. Psychic Piperno is helping me to pick the perfect match for me. And he's been available to me 24/7 to answer all my questions. Not only am I clearer about who can be a good partner for me, but I am also learning more about myself and feel more confident about my future. But I am also beginning my online dating life slowly. I am finding dating tips and alternative dating information to help me make an informed decision from iriedating.com - great advice which has helped me immensely and I couldn't be happier with my new life!