We live in a world where litigation is a common vocabulary word. People are sue-happy and there's no industry that gets left out of the courtroom. So is the online dating industry fair game for a lawsuit. In other words, if you didn't get what you wanted from you online dating service, would you sue the company?

A few weeks ago, a group of women in Manhattan did precisely that when they failed to get results from their online dating company. They were definitely invested enough in the issue to consider this course of action ... this was an upscale dating agency that cost the women several thousand dollars in fees. And their argument wasn't that they failed to get dates from the site but that the site failed to provide what it said it would to facilitate those dates.

But it brings up the issue of online dating and the courtroom. If you're using an online dating site that you have to pay for, have you looked at the terms of your agreement? And if you didn't get what you wanted, could you take the company to court? Perhaps time is better spent continuing to look for a good date that being angry at the sites that fail to provide one. But in our litigious society, these are things to think about.