Online dating is a real hit or miss type thing and it largely comes down to luck and location. It’s also basically useless if you don’t live near a big city, unless you get really lucky
It’s probably a lot less hit and a lot more miss when you have social anxiety and rely on someone messaging you first to break the ice.
Yeah I would imagine so. You don’t know these people so what do you have to lose messaging them first? All they can do is not respond.