Online dating refers to a number of websites that offer services to individuals or groups who wish to meet people online for social or romantic relationships. You dictate what type of relationship you are looking for which gives you complete control over whom you talk to and who you don’t.   Simply put, an online dating service is basically a  community of people who gather together to interact, socialize, and make friends with each other. Most hope that love will come their way through the site, but at the very least, they want to find a way to date a diverse and unique person they may not have the opportunity to meet in their “real lives”.