Online Dating

[hazabaza1]

If by the time I'm 35 and I still haven't found a girl I'll stay with I'll try my hand at the womens of the internet.

Find me a milf or saink. A little big of baggage isn't a problem when she is that hot.

...Saink?
The shit is that?

OT: Never had any relationship so, I dunno. I guess if I got desperate enough or there seemed to be nobody to my liking in my area I'd try it.

Saink = Something

Ah.
Urban Dictionary said something like that, but I thought it was some sort of woman types.

Just slang I use in real life. DON'T YOU JUDGE ME!

Considering I seem to be saying "Summat" a lot in my posts I think I'd be a hypocrite if I did.

 

[hazabaza1]

If by the time I'm 35 and I still haven't found a girl I'll stay with I'll try my hand at the womens of the internet.

Find me a milf or saink. A little big of baggage isn't a problem when she is that hot.

...Saink?
The shit is that?

OT: Never had any relationship so, I dunno. I guess if I got desperate enough or there seemed to be nobody to my liking in my area I'd try it.

Saink = Something

Ah.
Urban Dictionary said something like that, but I thought it was some sort of woman types.

Just slang I use in real life. DON'T YOU JUDGE ME!

Considering I seem to be saying "Summat" a lot in my posts I think I'd be a hypocrite if I did.

Excuse me I see no reason for you to bring up such harsh language and racial slurs.

Boy, you're speaking summat that I don't understand.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

I don't buy it. I think the "science" behind it is....dare I say...hokum.

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[Jaime_Wolf]

I've considered it many times, but never gone through with it. I don't think it necessarily makes anyone desperate or sad and I have a few very happy friends who met their (remarkably attractive) spouses online, I'm just too lazy to deal with it. I guess I'd also feel awkward telling people that we met online. To be clear, I wouldn't be awkward with meeting that way, only with telling people since so many people have the negative attitude of many of the people in this thread. Doesn't help that several of the more popular dating sites are run by Christian organisations and don't allow for gay profiles. And the gay-specific sites tend to be pretty terrible from what I've seen and heard.

As an aside, hooking your way through college is a brilliant idea. So long as the person doing it is comfortable with it, I salute them.

 

[Dags90]

I tried it for a bit. The guys were either looking to settle down too quickly or looking for a quick lay. I only met one guy who seemed like a genuinely nice guy who wasn't crazy or a slut, but there wasn't any real physical chemistry.

I don't get why people are complaining about a lack of personal interaction or distance, isn't the point of online dating mostly to find singles in your area to go on RL dates with?

 

[JemothSkarii]

Met my GF on a forum, been dating for two years now and going strong...as for dating websites, I'd avoid them, they just seem cheesy and over the tops. Plus you shouldn't have to pay money like that to find love.

 

[Space Spoons]

I first met my girlfriend of three years online. It wasn't through a dating website or anything like that, we just kept running into each other on a video game/sci-fi message board somewhat like this one. Eventually, we starting getting to know each other, and things just kind of took off from there.

I can't give my opinion on sites that are specifically designed for dating 'cause I've never really used one, but I think love can blossom over the Internet. It needs to move past that and into the real world at some point, of course, but for a start, it isn't as bad as it's made out to be. Sometimes, it works.

 

[MEEBO17]

i dont think so.

 

[GrimTuesday]

I'm lonely, but not lonely enough to do the whole dating website thing. I'd be fine if I met someone on a forum or something like that but dating sites are just too weird for me at this point in my life.

My mom did meet her boyfriend on some dating site but I'm not old enough to even care about those sorts of sites.

 

[Space Spoons]

I first met my girlfriend of three years online. It wasn't through a dating website or anything like that, we just kept running into each other on a video game/sci-fi message board somewhat like this one. Eventually, we starting getting to know each other, and things just kind of took off from there.

I can't give my opinion on sites that are specifically designed for dating 'cause I've never really used one, but I think love can blossom over the Internet. It needs to move past that and into the real world at some point, of course, but for a start, it isn't as bad as it's made out to be. Sometimes, it works.

Serious Question:

Weren't you worried the whole time that she was some hairy 40 year old?

And when you went to meet her I would have got my dad to go meet her and say he was me. For teh lulz.

I'll be honest, the thought crossed my mind a few times. You never can be sure if you're getting trolled or not, especially on forums like these. I guess I just got lucky.

 

[Azure-Supernova]

Currently in an online relationship, though she did come visit me this August. It's going pretty well so far, we got on well and she's coming over again in February.

Note: Amberella (bwuhahahaha, only she will get this xD)

EDIT

Nah, it's actually pretty fairytale *Amber nudges gun to my back*. We met over on GameSpot and then got to know each other over MSN. Started talking and it just happened. I was a bit weary at first and my family didn't agree, but I think it worked out great. I couldn't have dreamed up anyone better, we'll have been together for 2 years on February 17th 2011 <3

 

[x0ny]

The very idea of ticking boxes to see if a person is right for you should be a clear sign that online dating is a no go. Online dating sites may brag about the 60,000 couples they matched that year and remained married, but they fail to mention the other 250,000 which divorced soon after being matched and married.

 

[MasterOfWorlds]

Just a little FYI, i meant online dating in general, not necesarrily dating sites, but I suppose they fall under it too.

 

[Space Spoons]

I first met my girlfriend of three years online. It wasn't through a dating website or anything like that, we just kept running into each other on a video game/sci-fi message board somewhat like this one. Eventually, we starting getting to know each other, and things just kind of took off from there.

I can't give my opinion on sites that are specifically designed for dating 'cause I've never really used one, but I think love can blossom over the Internet. It needs to move past that and into the real world at some point, of course, but for a start, it isn't as bad as it's made out to be. Sometimes, it works.

Serious Question:

Weren't you worried the whole time that she was some hairy 40 year old?

And when you went to meet her I would have got my dad to go meet her and say he was me. For teh lulz.

I'll be honest, the thought crossed my mind a few times. You never can be sure if you're getting trolled or not, especially on forums like these. I guess I just got lucky.

Sounds like a nice set up you got going on there pal.

You two live together or saink?

She's moving in with me this Spring. It's pretty awesome, not gonna lie.

 

[Thundero13]

To be honest i'd be too afraid to do it incase the guy turned out to be a cereal killer/rapist, also i'm not sure if there are gay dating sites.

 

[Tarlane]

Never set up on a dating site, but I have met with a number of people I originally only knew online. Probably about 2/3rds of the folks I have met were girls and I ended up dating two of them, one for 4 years and the other for about 1.

I don't think there was a massive difference between the experience and starting to date someone who was always just a friend before in person, you can get to know someones personality online and get to know them pretty well but when you take that step there are always going to be new sides of them that you will need to learn about once you are together.

I generally think you are better off finding someone somewhere that you share an interest with rather than going to a dating site, just because I see that as the equivalent of being set up on a blind date in real life, but even someone being set up by their friend can meet someone and fall in love, so its not out of the question.

 

[Dags90]

To be honest i'd be too afraid to do it incase the guy turned out to be a cereal killer/rapist, also i'm not sure if there are gay dating sites.

There are a few, and some of the mainstream dating websites have LGBT-letter-soup friendly options. Specific to gay men you'll find numerous "casual" dating sites, if you catch my drift. Even the not-explicitly "casual" sites tend to gravitate towards that in practice.