On Dating Sites

I was listening to the morning show on FNX the other day on the way to work and I heard an ad for yet another dating website. However, apparently it is not a dating site - it's "an activities club for single professionals." After they blasted all of the other dating sites - eharmony, plenty of fish, match.com, etc. - I started to wonder, is it THAT difficult to date these days that we really need all of these services to help us? Is it that difficult to find someone and to plan dates that we need activities clubs just to get us out of the house, off the computer and socializing? I recall that there was a time when the people who tried to find dates online were the social rejects who everyone outside the cyber world thought was creepy, but now it's much more socially acceptable and almost the thing to do. So, what is it about this generation, this time period that makes us incapable of going out and meeting people? When did it get to the point where you really don't want anything to do with the guy who just bought you a drink because men who pick up women in bars are sketchy and can't be trusted?

Really, this is completely unprecedented. Even personal ads did not reach this point. People were able to date and marry before the internet and since this phenomena the divorce rate has not dropped. So what is it with the cyber dating and why are we so infatuated with it and dependent upon it?