It's almost like Online dating has just become too popular for its own good. It's still best to meet girls out and about. They tend to have more potential because you're technically going on a second date after you meet them and there are less surprises.
I've been dating a ridiculously hot girl(half Italian/Colombian for visual) that I met thru a mutual friend, she's never been online but I could only imagine the type of messages/stories she'd have if she were. There is a noticeable difference between the girls who online date and the girls who don't. The girls who don't (at least in my experience,) tend to be so much more straight up and genuine. Like she is. I wonder if she'd even respond to a message from me online had I come across her. I think their heads just get so inflated online. I hate to say it, but unless you're doing something tediously slow like eharmomy, a lot the other sites produce some really low value girls. The easier the access to the site the less serious the girls tend to be. Some sign up for the right reasons but become jaded over time, other sign up because they are recently single and have no idea wtf they want, then there are the small percentage that actually have their shit together and screen properly. Those ones are getting harder and harder to come by. It's really fucked Up anymore.