I'd say it's considerably more difficult meeting and hooking up with chicks nowadays than pre-internet or even ten to fifteen years ago.
Internet dating fukcing blows.
The problem with it is that it puts the cart before the horse.
When you meet someone in real life....most married couples met at work or through a mutual friend and being at least loosely in the same social circle. When you'd go on a first date with someone you'd already probably been around them on numerous occasions. There's already established mutual attraction and chemistry prior to going on your first date. You know what type of personality they have. In short, you already know you like each other prior to going on a first date. Will it be enough to go the distance? Lead to a long term relationship? Marriage? Kids?
Probably not, but the odds are much better.
When you go into it already liking the other person you either consciously or subconsciously make an effort to overlook the other person's faults, things that on paper are not desirable, their red flags. You rationalize these away because of your like for the person overall and because you Want to Make it Work.
With online dating it's the exact opposite, especially when it comes to women looking for a mate. They're consciously or subconsciously making an effort to find reasons why it won't work. They're looking for red flags and making them into deal breakers instead of looking them over and smoothing them out against their positive overall view of their suitor.
I swear, going on most first dates is worse than most job interviews. Or the constant messaging wanting to know this, wanting to know that,
"why didn't your marriage work?"
"Bitch, I've never even fukcing met you. Why are you thirty-three with a five year old kid, have never been married, and there's no guy in the picture? WTF happened there?....kunt?"
That's pretty much most online dating exchanges in a nutshell.....