After reading many people experiences on here I approached the OLD malarkey with a tactical approach that NATO would be proud of.
I enlisted friends who waded through the available men of near age/vicinity to me. They then then blocked others who they didn't think we're a good match for me.
They had much amusement dealing with the initial flood of messages to the new blood /sexting/ etc
Anyhow, that whittled it down and I met two that had good chat
One was a good looking guy in the front line services, very funny, common background, drank like a fish! We had a great laugh, some attraction but he seemed a bit flaky and I blew him off after intermittent contact.
The other who had sparkling wit/humour online, bored me to tears in person complaining about work and very personal health issues which had never been mentioned previously.
So, I decided to take the power back into my own hands so to speak.
I winked at a match who seemed ideal, vet, two dogs, lived by the sea, cultured, active in the community , loves wine ( very important) who was looking for a relationship with an outgoing woman who was successful in her field.
The first message from him was a general Hi there to which I responded commenting on some shared interests we had.
The second was asking what I was wearing while emailing him.
Reader , I married him.... Fuck no, I did a "Sweats and a pony tail' 
and got a torrent of abuse back of how I would never meet anyone.
At this point I gave up on OLD.