There are several ways to meet a woman. The friend-of-a-friend (tried and true), the classmate (slightly higher risk) and the bar hookup (no qualms here).

   But the twenty-first century man has a new tool in his lady-chasing arsenal: the internet. Originally conceived of as a series of tubes, the internet can now be used to read news, check sports scores and yes, get a date!

   Now, I’ve always been a face-to-face kind of guy when it comes to girls. But this is the summer of AXE, and I’m supposed to give you the DL on the Canadian dating scene… so I have decided to throw my hat into the online dating world.

First step: registering with a site

   All I can say about this step is that it will take longer than you think. Like my friend Joe says, when you assume you make an ass out of you and out of your ass.

   I started off fresh and optimistic, figuring I’d be finished my profile and be cruising the cyber sea for booty within 15 minutes.

   Au contraire mon frere - one hour, a few site crashes and a pee break later and I was still labouring on the “hobbies” box! I usually find it pretty hard to write only about myself in the first place (scholarships anyone?), but throw in helpful hints posted around the boxes like “the more you write, the more responses you will get” and you have a recipe for disaster. I thought our generation only wanted 140 characters or less…

   Anyway, I eventually finished and am now on to the second step: waiting for bites. Ladies of the interwebs, where are you? Wouldn’t you like to have lunch on a patio with a nice young blogger?

   I promise that I will find someone soon - I’ll be posting the details of the date up here in a few days! In the mean time, share your online dating experiences with me on our Facebook page .