If I knew the person in real life beforehand, but the relationship moved on via the internet, then yeah, I guess. But a meeting after only even knowing the other existed through the internet? Nah.
Poll: Internet Dating
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I met the girl I'm talking to online. In WoW actually. She's coming to New York at the beginning of May to see a concert and visit me.
I don't really see how this is a problem. I mean, sure, it isn't the best situation, but its better than having no one. Besides, she'll be going to school about an hour away from me next year.
I don't really see how this is a problem. I mean, sure, it isn't the best situation, but its better than having no one. Besides, she'll be going to school about an hour away from me next year.
Been there done that. Unfortunately the people I've met online can come out of their shells behind a keyboard or microphone. They can't make the jump well to real life; the ones that I met don't understand how to showcase themselves.
Although I've never tried it I wouldn't turn my nose up at it, you can meet some really great people online.
LOL! Quite possibly. If I ever get a divorce, I'll be sure to check that site out.The66Monkey said:
I'd be interested on how, exactly, you think that it's "desperate". Sounds to me like if she was desperate for anything, she was desperate to receive validation that it's not weird that she's looking for/met someone online.Meta Like That said:
It amazes me how many socially maladapted geeks who happen to have lucked into girlfriends are total arrogant cocks about it. (Maybe women are as well, but they certainly are a much smaller segment of the population.) Personally, I realize that I'm lucky as hell that I found a woman who is a) intelligent, b) attractive, c) a gamer, and d) thinks I'm the bomb. Shit, I don't even play the lottery because I figure I've used up my luck, not just for this life, but for the next three or four lives as well. And yet, so many kiddies out there act as if people who aren't so fortunate are 'desperate' or 'pathetic'.
One message for you guys: hold on to your hats, because with that sense of entitlement, you're going to be finding out sooner rather than later how fortunate you were, much to your dismay.
There's a difference between going on an online dating service and going on an mmorpg and spamming L>GF!@!!!11!.ChaoticLegion said:
Anyhow, never thought there was any point in an online only relationship.
As for my opinion of it, it does seem a little lazy, but if nothing else works go for it.
Well.....I met my lady online, we've been together for six years now and are engaged. She lives up in Yorkshire, me down south here.
It CAN work, but at times it can be pretty testing. We hope to move in with each other soon. Good luck in your search Jenny
(AOL chat room for the record, not saying which......oh go on then it was a Big Brother chat room. Happy?!?)
It CAN work, but at times it can be pretty testing. We hope to move in with each other soon. Good luck in your search Jenny
(AOL chat room for the record, not saying which......oh go on then it was a Big Brother chat room. Happy?!?)
The advent of telecommunications and the internet has opened up another world of opportunity for filtering out people you wouldn't date, and finding someone you genuinely like. It's another level of picking and choosing your partners. Yes, I'd date someone off the internet. I'd prefer to know them well first, but that comes with time. Our very own Purps and Larenxis met online and that went off with a bang.
I met my wife online. I can only chalk it up to some sort of twisted divine influence. I would have never thought it as something I was capable of doing, but it happened so fast. I met her. Talked to her for a couple years as friends. Next thing I know I'm flying to Wisconsin for a date one month. The next month I'm flying there again to drive half way across the country to bring her and most of her belongings home. God knows what her parents saw in me. I'd have killed me and put me in a burning car if I were them.
Almost 4 years later she is the best wife and companion anybody could ever ask for. Sometimes I forget that we even met online.
Almost 4 years later she is the best wife and companion anybody could ever ask for. Sometimes I forget that we even met online.
Well firstly, I said I didn't want to use the word, but it comes to mind simply because of how amusing I found her post. If I could think of a word that better conveyed that, I would.solidstatemind said:
Second, I don't know what arrogant cock geeks with girlfriends you've ran into, but I assure you, I'm not one of them. Hell, I don't even think I've ran into one. Most of the geeks I see are either wondering how the hell it happened or are counting their blessings when they enter a relationship. I'd imagine it wouldn't last long if their attitude changed to what your describing.
Lastly, for the record: I don't condemn internet dating. If it works for you, then good on ya. But I'm personally against it for various reasons, none of them being that I've tried it.
If it was some really cool chick that I met online but we date in the real world then yeh there's nothing really wrong with that but I wouldn't tell anyone we met online, I'd make up some bull about her being impressed by my parkour and something but with those people who only ever meet online and say they're in a relationship then yeh that's fucked.
Actually, and this is pro-geeky:
I did meet my wife on the Internet. But through her friend who I met on an art board.
We've been married 6 years now and are having a baby in May.
So it does work, but we're the exception to reality of Internet dating (which is it's hard to get results).
I did meet my wife on the Internet. But through her friend who I met on an art board.
We've been married 6 years now and are having a baby in May.
So it does work, but we're the exception to reality of Internet dating (which is it's hard to get results).
I wouldn't want to go to an online dating site. I don't like the idea of chatting up to a girl through e.g. MSN before meeting up in person. People are different on the internet then they are in real life, and I want to know somebody the way they really are (even though it appears that some people's internet identity are more themselves then their real one).
I have met some very awesome friends through the net though. I joined a clan in UT2004 while that clan consisted up till then solely out of Frenchies. I could read and write a little bit of French myself, but talking it (and mostly understanding what they said) was nigh impossible. That didn't prevent me from going to a LAN in Dijon at someone's house, while I was 17 year old, to people I only knew for 6 months and only talked to over the internet. It was a truly awesome experience I have to say.
Now, about four years later, I talk to them on a regular basis, and every year we have a LAN. Fortunately, their English has improved dramatically, and I'm certainly not the only non-Frenchie any more. I'm really happy with having such good friends.
I have met some very awesome friends through the net though. I joined a clan in UT2004 while that clan consisted up till then solely out of Frenchies. I could read and write a little bit of French myself, but talking it (and mostly understanding what they said) was nigh impossible. That didn't prevent me from going to a LAN in Dijon at someone's house, while I was 17 year old, to people I only knew for 6 months and only talked to over the internet. It was a truly awesome experience I have to say.
Now, about four years later, I talk to them on a regular basis, and every year we have a LAN. Fortunately, their English has improved dramatically, and I'm certainly not the only non-Frenchie any more. I'm really happy with having such good friends.
I'm not one for using the internet as a means to meet people in real life, though one of my very best friends I met in a game forum and we've been best friends for many, many years, only meeting in person one time.
As for dating, I have dated one woman I met on-line and though it's still ending kind of ackwardly, I am at this time trying it again with another woman I find myself falling more and more for every day. The only real problem with on-line dating is distance.
As for dating, I have dated one woman I met on-line and though it's still ending kind of ackwardly, I am at this time trying it again with another woman I find myself falling more and more for every day. The only real problem with on-line dating is distance.
Done it before. Not that different from meeting someone in a bar. Swap a few e-mails, ask for pics, go do lunch.