Why do you refuse to try it? Online dating is awesome. Most of my friends found their girlfriends online and one of them just got engaged with someone he met 4 years ago. Online dating allows you to cut the bullcrap. You get to know more info about someone in 5 minutes of reading than you'd get in two dates with some random woman you met somewhere. You get to know right away if something about them is a deal breaker instead of wasting your time and money dating them.
If anything it made me realize how poor some of my past choices in women were. Once you try online dating, you realize how many basic women there are out there. I swear, like 80% of them all have the same poses in their pictures, have a picture of them on a trip somewhere with the main focus being the environment she's in and her as a dark silhouette, they're all into the same bands, love eating good food and to laugh (who doesn't?), name the same mainstream shows everyone is into, love traveling, their life motto is "live, laugh, love", they say they're open minded but list a bunch of deal breakers for them and how they're only looking for tall and attractive men and they all say they're unique snowflakes yet their entire profile looks copy pasted from some template. I'm going to assume the same goes for a lot of men too but that's not in my field of experience. Once you filter them out, the other 20% become really interesting. To be honest, I had some of the best dates and relationships I ever had thanks to it.
I've learned more about myself, dealing with relationships and what I'm looking for in a woman thanks to it. I used to be incredibly socially awkward. I've been making efforts to change that in my early 20s but online dating allowed me to kick it up a notch further. You should break that barrier and actually try it. What could go wrong really? Worst case scenario is that you get a date or two with someone and you realize she isn't for you, or she realizes you aren't for her, which could happen anyway regardless of online dating. It's almost 2015 dude, there's nothing wrong or awkward about online dating.