You couldn't be more wrong. Unless you spend your time seeking out BPD's, dive bar drunks, birds that are known slores etc out in the field then online dating is the "same" as meeting chicks for you who don't use OLD.
I know personally for a 110% FACT besides knowing many, many chicks through social circles first and last name that know me first and last name there is a VAST difference in the majority of quality chicks who don't use OLD than ones who live on those sites. Shyt the few I knew and who know me personally that I've seen and spoken to that were using OLD as in POF? Were complete and utter basket cases. Toxic to the core. I've never seen a chick I know who was normal, gets dudes easily through social circles ever using OLD. They don't need to because they get snatched up quick and are with dudes they've known, are in relationships or married. I've heard shyt directly from chicks using OLD in real life phone conversations multiple times from many of them online that would make your head spin. Shyt you couldn't make up if you tried. No matter how they looked.
If they're on an online dating site they're there for a reason. And it's not good at all. But if you want to provide countless excuses for chicks who need to use OLD EX: POF. Have at it.
I realize though many dudes are so desperate that they need a justification for trying to pick up easy sleazies and the worse they are is like an "go for it bro!" advertisement for the desperate and needy.
Keep deluding yourself. Like I said. You can try all you want to claim chicks that live in the local dive bar are "just the same" as chicks who wouldn't step foot in the town dive bar but you're fooling no one.
POF isn't the only OLD site. In fact.. that is probably the worst TRASH can of a dating site around.
I have friends who met great girls online and I have friends who met TRASH in person and through social circles. Women change you know. I have buddies who married their high school and college sweethearts whom turned out to be TRASH down the road. Cheaters, bitches or both. Never would of known earlier because they were so sweet and classy lol. That's full blown social circle game for you.
The issue with social circle game is it only works ONCE. You date a girl from your social circle and it doesn't work out.. guess what happens? Either you or the girl are forced out of that social circle. People take sides and the social circle splits. I've gone through this already and watched friends go though it too.
There are a few types of women who never use OLD. You have women who are always OUT socializing and collecting orbiters. You have women who are wh0res. And you have women who are never single long enough to go online because they collect orbiters while in a relationship to have men lined up when their currant man goes belly up. There are also those women who never left their home town and have a big enough orbiter base that they never have to go online. And finally you have women who are still dating or married to their high school or college sweetheart (might be good women or might not be). They will end up online soon if there is a divorce though unless they have another man lined up before the break up.
The moral of the story is women who don't use OLD are just better at collecting orbiters. That does not a quality woman make.
If a woman lives in a major city as I do, she is often from somewhere else. She arrives with few or no friends and few or no connections at first. So she might venture online to meet people. Cities are full of transplants, college students and immigrants. A woman who is new in town will either go out a lot to meet people (and collect orbiters) or she will go online.
Maybe things are different out in the country and rural areas, but in the city there is virtually NO difference between the market online and the market in real life. I do OLD, cold approach, after work happy hours, social sports AND just about every way under the sun you can meet women. That's how I know.
Why do you think marriage rates are dropping? OLD or because the overall quality of the market has declined? Think about it.