How Do You Value Yourself Online?

"I can't put myself in a position where I am spending more time on this encounter than it's actually worth to me," says one woman. "If for example, someone lives an hour away and they're not willing to travel halfway, that's not a useful like hour in my life," she adds. 'There's still a cost to learning,' writes another man who is new to online dating. "'The most optimistic case people are interesting, I'm curious about them' -- you don't have the sort of optimism beaten out of us."