Need some rather personal advice

[CapnAwesome]

There you have it, two contradictory posts right out of the box.

Haha, of course. Not that I think your advice is bad, it's good advice. In fact there is no reason why he couldn't do both. I think there are some advantages to using a dating site though, the main one being that you can find people in your area. Where as on some random online site they might have to relocate. Already whoever is going to be involved is going to be burdened enough as it is without the additional burden of having to relocate. Also maybe he doesn't get hits on the dating site, he can still peruse other people as much as he likes and if he's not that superficial I'd imagine there are lots of women out there who are not superficial either.