Everyone has their limits, especially when it comes to dating. After all, how many times can you ask someone out before you give up? When it comes to using online personals, how long should you put in effort before you throw in the towel?

The truth is that, like everything else, online dating may take time to see progression out of. Each case is different– some people find love right away, some find lust after a few weeks, and some only find a friend even after a few months, but if you put in a valiant effort to find someone worth of your time, you’re going to find success!

As long as you’re online, you have a chance of finding the adult friend you’re looking for. If and when you do decide to throw in the towel, your odds of finding someone through the Internet get cut down to zero.

Almost all online daters will tell you that the results you get out of online dating is directly related to the effort you put into it.

“I had an account for almost a year, but I was never really serious about finding anyone, so I just closed it and gave up,” said Sandy Colfax, a 47-year-old mother of two from Wisconsin. “One day I woke up and thought to myself, ‘It’s time to get back out there.’ I really wanted to find someone and dedicated about an hour a day to talk with people online. Within a week I had scheduled dates and within a month I met Evan, who I’m currently married to.”

The second you decide that online dating isn’t going to work for you, it’s going to stop working for you. Everyone has a match waiting for them online! There are millions of people already using it, and millions more every day. Having patience and a positive attitude is guaranteed to get you the results you want while looking for love.