Mindy Kaling: I feel too 'vulnerable' for online dating

NEW YORK, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Single actress Mindy Kaling says online dating is not for her.

The 37-year-old Mindy Project star discussed her aversion to online dating while appearing on Monday's episode of The View.

"I have so many friends who do it. I have friends who have gotten married from online dating. I just feel really vulnerable already," she explained. "Going into online dating, they already know so much more about me than I do about them."

Kaling has dated writer Benjamin Nugent and actor B.J. Novak. The actress admitted Sunday on Watch What Happens Live that it was difficult to play "warring love interests" with Novak on The Office after their split.

"I can't speak [for] him, [but] I think for me it was challenging to be in your mid-twenties -- I'm such a sentimental person and I take things very hard -- but that's the nice thing about being in long friendships," she said.

"That was, like, twelve years ago when that happened, so you get over things like that, but it totally was very challenging," the star confessed.

Novak himself described his relationship with Kaling as "really complicated" in a previous interview with People. The actor said, however, that he wouldn't trade their friendship for "anything in the world."

Kaling presently stars on The Mindy Project, which returned for a fifth season Tuesday. The series aired for three seasons on Fox and has streamed on Hulu since Season 4.