However, though people may have already figured out that the blind date is one of the craziest things that you could ever do, they are still more afraid of what could happen to them if they were to consider online dating. They have heard all the horror stories: someone shows up and doesn’t look like their picture, someone shows up and has awful breath, a different person shows up, the person that is described in the profile is not the person that opens his mouth, and on and on we go.

Our question to you is if the pitfalls of online dating are going to keep you from finding your soul mate. The truth is, you are not going to get along with most of the people that you meet in your life. However, if you meet no one, then you are assured to get along with absolutely no one.

It has been said that everyone is born alone and dies alone. We believe that this statement must’ve been made by someone lonely enough to have had time to construct it, and therefore they are not quite the authority that you would want to trust when it came to social relationships.

At the website LoveGeneration.co.uk, we want to make sure that you stay absolutely inspired even through all of the pitfalls of online dating. Also, with our website, you will not have to go through as many of those pitfalls, because our members are cut from a different cloth, if you know what I mean.

If you are looking for a pool of potential people form relationships that have the same moral structure and interests as you, then you are looking in the right place when you come to LoveGeneration.co.uk. Go ahead and make a profile so that people can see your smiling face and read about your varied interests. Then simply start e-mailing! With our proprietary system, you are sure to find the person that you want in your life in no time at all.

People are busier today than they’ve ever been in the past and there just isn’t time to meet that special someone. This is even more true during the busy Holiday season. If the thought of meeting someone at the local pub doesn’t appeal to you, and you haven’t run into your soul mate in the frozen food aisle, it’s time to give UK online dating a try.

Imagine having someone you enjoy spending time with to accompany you to your company Christmas party this year? Wouldn’t it be lovely to snuggle with someone special in front of the fireplace on Christmas Eve? The best UK dating site can even help you find someone so perfect that you’d want to bring them home to meet your parents. There’s no need to spend this holiday season alone when you could be spending it with someone who is perfect for you.

Having the romance and passion that you want in your life doesn’t have to be a dream, not this year! Somewhere, probably somewhere close by, is the person you’ve been dreaming of meeting. And that someone is looking for you right now. It’s just time to take the final step so that you can find them. What is the final step? Stop dreaming about romance this Christmas and do something to find it! Set up a profile on an online dating site and you’ll be that much closer to finding the one you’ve been dreaming of.

Try a UK online dating site and see who else is out there and looking for someone just like you. There are other busy people, who like you, want someone to enjoy this holiday season with, but they don’t want to find them at the local pub or in the grocery store either. Millions of people have found the love of their life using the internet and you can too. This Christmas season is the perfect time to take that first step!

A good place to look for tips is the new online dating book Soulmates that has a sometimes sad, sometimes funny list of dispatches from online singles serving at the front line in the never ending battle for love.

Take Saes (ASL: M, 55, North Wales) who exchanged messages with a lady from Derbyshire because his mum still lived there and he could stay over. They arranged to meet for afternoon tea in a Buxton hotel.

She was at least 10 years older than advertised and kept white gloves on for the whole proceedings, presumably to hide her hands.

After tea, she excused herself for nose powdering while Saes paid the bill but she never returned. He panicked, thinking that at her advanced age, she might have collapsed in the ladies, so he asked one of the waitresses to check the toilets – only to discover she’d done a runner.

He then mooched around the market and spotted his date with a group of similar-looking ladies. As he watched they got on a waiting coach bearing the sign “Trip to Buxton”. The cunning minx had booked Saes as afternoon entertainment – together with a free pot of tea – as part of her pensioners’ day out.

Miss Conduct (ASL: 30, F, unknown) was at the doctor’s with a seven-day itch.

Dr Pete appeared instead of the woman doctor and she was so sick of waiting that she let the unknown man inspect her ailing ‘downstairs’.

“It all looks very healthy,” he smiled, emerging from the blue “modesty-covering” paper that bedecked her lower half.

Four days later the symptoms had disappeared, and the tests had all proved negative. Itch-free and uncontaminated, she was ready to hit the dating world once more.

Then, a sweet message appeared in her inbox from a guy who referred to himself simply as “P”, saying he was fond of poetry, psychology and photography like Miss Conduct and would she like to meet up in the pub?

He sounded funny, thoughtful and interesting – and wasn’t bad-looking either. But something about his photo niggled. He looked just a little too familiar. She checked his profession: medical/dental/veterinary and realised with 99.9% certainty that she’d just been asked out by her gynaecologist.

* Soulmates: True Stories from the World of Online Dating by Sonali Fernando is published by Guardian Books RRP £8.99