Internet Dating, Revisited

I've seen so many commercials for internet dating websites it makes me wonder if everyone is a hermit these days.  Does anyone even leave the house any more?
If you want a new book or CD you can order it on the internet and have it shipped to your house.  There are plenty of internet stores that will gladly provide you clothing and shoes.  You can even have your groceries delivered!
As I've mentioned before, I've experimented with the sociological aspects of internet dating, mostly out of curiosity and somewhat out of boredom.  After all, a man can only browse the Musician's Friend website for so long.
So after completing my little experiment, I felt I had really come to a disturbing conclusion -- society is in trouble, man!  Our social fabric is unraveling!
Even my brief time on a dating website, and for purely social research reasons at that, troubles me.  It troubles me that the commercials on TV apparently got to me.  It troubles me that I even signed up.  Research or not, or even as a passing fancy (although telling myself "it was purely for research purposes" does make me fell a bit better about it), I'm not going to say "I never thought I would find myself on a dating website" because that's what everyone thinks. 
Really, who sets out on their path to dating bliss by thinking, "I'm definitely going to start looking on the internet first"?  Frankly, it's unnatural to find a date on the internet.  The internet is for illegally downloading music and buying blu-rays of Smallville and How I Met Your Mother.  Speaking of, that show would be totally lame if at the very end he said, "And we met on the internet.  And that's how I met your mother."
Instead I should be meeting my soul mate at church.  Or through a mutual friend.  Or at the grocery store when I happen to bump into someone, knock the cantaloupes out of her hands and, trying to be helpful, say, "Let me grab your melons."  Yeah, something funny, charming and embarrassingly memorable like that.
But it seems social interaction, actual face to face, interpersonal social interaction, is a relic of a paradoxically less connected time.  A time when telephones were plugged into a wall and typewriters and white-out were a modern convenience.  A time when you actually, physically visited your friends to learn what was new in their lives.  Aside from internet dating's aforementioned propensity to pander to people's superficiality, it seems as a society our sense of community is eroding.  What are people so busy doing these days they can't make time for a church function or a community picnic at the park? 
Probably spending hours in front of a computer browsing a dating website.