I'm curious.

I am acquainted with some people who have discovered their inamoratae (or inamorati) on dating websites, but when I was young to join such a website would have been grossly embarrassing if discovered, an admission that you could not pull.

I've in consequence (I have an enquiring mind) idly browsed through a few and they seem to be populated (I can't speak so much for the men, they interest me less) largely by the hideous, those with huge amounts of adverse baggage, potential bunny boilers, gold-diggers including those seeking subsidy for their children; and ladies of the night. Where I have looked at the details of men (not out of my personal interest, but to see if I could where someone was "coming from" (no pun intended)) they seem to be largely bitchslapping B*N*P members or at least those that way inclined - or determined notchcarvers.

Is use of such things socially acceptable?

Are the mass of the world really as crass as that?