Online Dating. What are your real opinions

[Soprano]

i dont have a problem with meeting people on the internet and hooking up and whatnot, but honestly i think the whole online dating thing is kinda lame

however i can definitely understand why ppl who dont really have much free time and stuff like that would do it

 

[JH6]

Originally posted by splinterkb
Its short and simple. Online dating is for chumps who cant pick up women in real life.

So true, i'm glad to be a chump.

 

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Originally posted by penkitten
it sure is!
gio and i met here for pete's sake, boy dont we get some funny looks when people hear our story.

You guys need to stop letting dweebs hang out with you.

 

[penkitten]

Originally posted by Francisco d'Anconia
You guys need to stop letting dweebs hang out with you.

its the strangers that give us carriage rides that make small talk and stuff. they say how did you meet? we figure its funny to tell strangers we met on an internet forum where men discuss women and dating and rant and rave and there is a few hundred guys and a handful of chicks on here.

 

[diplomatic_lies]

Originally posted by Francisco d'Anconia
Why would that be awkward? It's a great opening for some kick @ss stories!

Not if you're a late GenX or early GenY teenager...

It's a generation thing. Most guys/girls my age see internet dating as really weird.

 

[Bonhomme]

I find it amusingly ironic that Match.com calls their new product "Chemistry" when that's about the only thing it doesn't take into account.

 

[TheInfamousCBear]

Originally posted by Bonhomme
That's the thing: in my case, it almost always has (chuckling mirthlessly). See typical stats below.

Somehow, in person, eye contact, charisma, and kino can obliterate things (mostly matters of "laundry list" incompatibility) that have almost always derailed online contacts before step 3 ("Arrange First Meeting"). And those few times an online contact got past that to actually meeting, the essential chemistry just wasn't there.

Meeting in real life establishes the chemistry first, and those petty little "laundry list" items all of a sudden don't look so important.

Im with you on this...The only way to get noticed on myspace is you gotta take pics of yourself damn near naked...Im not taking pics like that of myself cause you never know who will see it, plus im not gonna cheapen myself to get online broads, you dont have to walk around with no shirt on in real life to get girls...Everyone that I know that has broads requesting them has at least one pic like that...I get requested by the fat busted white broads that have like 2,000 black dudes on their list and people trying to run scams and sh1t, lol...

 

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Originally posted by TheInfamousCBear
Im with you on this...The only way to get noticed on myspace is you gotta take pics of yourself damn near naked...Im not taking pics like that of myself cause you never know who will see it, plus im not gonna cheapen myself to get online broads, you dont have to walk around with no shirt on in real life to get girls...Everyone that I know that has broads requesting them has at least one pic like that...I get requested by the fat busted white broads that have like 2,000 black dudes on their list and people trying to run scams and sh1t, lol...

What else do you expect from a free site?

 

[TheInfamousCBear]

Originally posted by Francisco d'Anconia
What else do you expect from a free site?

You do have a point though...I guess cause you have to pay for the other sites, people are more serious about it...Maybe when I get older Ill try it out, but im young and stingy right now, lol...

 

[Dust 2 Dust]

Originally posted by Paintballguy
I've decided that online dating is retarded. There is seriously no point to even trying because all the girls are a bunch of attention *****s getting their ego's boosted by afc's. /rant

This describes an ex of mine from a few years back. She had a virtual army of AFC's who would e-mail her and instant message her every day. One time I signed in with her account and got IM's from 20 different guys in 5 minutes and her Inbox was flooded with AFC mail. She would put "in relationship" in her profile and the AFC's still wouldn't relent. This experience has completely turned me off to IM and email as sarging communications.

I've tried online dating. Over the past 5 years I've met around ten women off the net and never went on more than 2 dates with any of them. Most of the girls I met were blind dates that turned out to be FUG's. One girl lied to me and told she didn't smoke and when she admitted to me that she did I tossed her number in the garbage. Another was a single mom who never told me she had a kid.

If a woman starts to "beat around the bush" next her. The best advice I can give is to get a picture first and qualify them as quickly as possible. If I havn't gotten a number close by the end of the second or third email exchange I always next them because for me time is money.

 

[ER!C L!VE]

However, these girls do have some men they choose out of the 1000's of emails and IMs. They choose the guy b/c of an initial attraction usually from the photo or the subject of the email catches her attention. Stand out as much as possible by being excellent and cast out a large net.

 

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Originally posted by TheInfamousCBear
You do have a point though...I guess cause you have to pay for the other sites, people are more serious about it...Maybe when I get older Ill try it out, but im young and stingy right now, lol...

Is "stingy" what you whippersnappers call "broke" nowadays?

 

[TheInfamousCBear]

Originally posted by Francisco d'Anconia
Is "stingy" what you whippersnappers call "broke" nowadays?

lol it depends...