From a guy's perspective, online dating is 97% of where I get my dates....95% of them ended in phail, no second date. the 5% that didn't was one person, and it ended with me losing my virginity and the next week getting completely heart broken and feeling like an idiot, but mostly moved on from that. I have had absolutly no luck with girls I meet IRL, it always ends up friendship that goes nowhere. As a girl you will probaly get a crap load of messages, mostly from creeps, and then you'll get occasional messages from people like me, who are trying to legitly initiate a convo in the attempts to get to know someone they find intersting, only to think they're a creep, thus not replying. From what I understand, girls get message 5 times more then guys.As a guy, you have to pretty much just message random people and hope someone messages back, it really sucks. I try not to get in the mindset that "if i bombard 100 people, maybe 2 will reply", but thats how it seems. It really bums you out when they click your profile after you messaged them, and they don't reply, because then you know they saw your pics/profile and think you're just God-awful.
But give it a shot, it seems to be working for some people, who knows maybe you will be lucky, but don't expect too much.