My wife discourages me from looking for a GF. :)
The Internet is only partly real. Get a hobby you like and participate in it. Shooting, coin collecting, reading, whatever. Join groups of people of like mind. Some of my most favorite times are those spent shooting and at coin club events.
ilbob's got the right idea. Get into some activity you enjoy, but do it because you enjoy it and not to find a girlfriend. There'll be women there who enjoy it, too.
Not quite in the vein but...
I wasn't studying getting a girlfriend and damn sure didn't expect to find one while working as a bouncer in a drag queen show bar, but that's where I met Miss Priss. Two and a half years later we were married. You never know where someone who tickles your fancy will turn up.
