Not necessarily pertaining to MacD, just my experiences taught me that it's "meat market" out there. The men I met were eager for a face-to-face meeting to size me up. I wanted to correspond for a while just to get to know the person. Even giving them my phone number, I was reluctant, but that was a request very early on.

Regarding the mindset of meeting online, it is not for the emotionally vulnerable. If you are hurting from a previous relationship, or simply fragile emotionally, don't even go there.