remember when online dating was something to be embarrassed about?

[Bob]

it isn't anymore and i like that because it turned out to be way easier than normal people dating

[Adam]

Nope, you still should be embarrassed. But not for online dating!
How old are you now?
What have you done with your life?
How are you utilising your degree?
Are you debt free yet?
Anywhere near getting on the property ladder?
How often do you call your parents?
Still masturbate too much?
Do you even have a car?

[Waus]

I was always bothered by the High Fidelity question of whether it's more important what they like or what they're like.

I still don't really have a satisfactory answer.

[checkyourprez]

Nope, you still should be embarrassed. But not for online dating!
How old are you now?
What have you done with your life?
How are you utilising your degree?
Are you debt free yet?
Anywhere near getting on the property ladder?
How often do you call your parents?
Still masturbate too much?
Do you even have a car?



haha adam got real serious about shit real quick.


but yeah, it is easier, you both are their for the same reason. right to the point shit.

[Adam]

Joking aside; tomorrow I am actually two years into my online dating relationship. It's has been kinda crazy. I've moved from Sheffield to London to Nottingham with her in that space of time.

We're both happy; it ain't always easy but what relationship is? Still online dating becomes highly recommended by me (y)

[Helvete]

I go through women so fast only online dating can provide me with a sufficient supply.

[Dorothy Wood]

I didn't end up with anybody I met on the Internet, but I'm sure glad I was able to get dating experience with it.

Why do you guys think it was so embarrassing in the first place?

[Helvete]

The perception that you had to 'resort' to online dating because you were too much of a loser or too weird to meet anyone elsewhere. That and only other losers and weirdos were on the internet.

I'd say this from the earlier days of internet use, where it was a bit of a geeky, niché thing rather than the mainstream tool that everyone uses today. I also think a lot of people don't actually get to meet a wide range of people through their usual social circles and work now, you have to branch out from that.

That's my excuse anyway, it's not easy to meet women in the army.

[cosmo105]

I did a lot of "dating" from the interwebs and had 2 long-term relationships and 1 short-term (but still serious) relationship stem from online friendships. And I was always sort of embarrassed about that fact :o It just had such a horrible stigma for so long and was something that people always raised eyebrows about whenever I explained How We Met. I only ever went on one actual "date" with someone I met on an actual online dating site, and it ended hilariously badly (as do and should all okcupid dates). At any rate I'm really proud of the fact that the person I did end up marrying was someone that met me face-to-face and liked me immediately. It was refreshing after being used to getting to know someone through IMs and skype chats and all. Not that I really think there's anything inherently wrong with that - I just had had quite enough of that, thank you. Also not being long-distance was a big plus.

[Freebasser]

At least with online dating there's none of that awkwardness when she inevitably tries to escape through the toilet window.

[Lyman Zerga]

my sister is married to someone she met on an online dating site
my mum only met countless useless perverts from that same site
if it is meant to be then it will happen or otherwise youre just screwed

[abbott]

Kind of like going to the record store to buy a record so you can hear a song has changed.

At the family wedding last week, all the young college kids just seem to think online dating is the only way.

Even the high school kid's date was from online. No shit

[Kid Presentable]

I moved in with her.

[Bob]

someone from here said it, i forget who, but it was something like "we already do everything else on the internet, why not dating too?"

the internet, for better or for worse, is such a big part of the way we socialize, i don't think it's weird for people to hook up for dates on it. it's just another social aspect of the internet, you can't single it out and be like "THAT PART'S FOR LOSERS"

like prez said, it's great because you know right out of the gate that you're both after the same thing. maybe there's no chemistry between you and it doesn't work out, whatever, but at least that initial awkward base level where you have to find out "are you single? are you interested in dating right now? do you like me? do you like me like me?" and so on gets skipped and you can go straight to figuring out if you have shit in common and wanna bone

i could never get past that first part very well, so online dating has opened up a whole new realm of failing for me, it's great

[TurdBerglar]

a long time ago I put a friend of mine on a dating site as a joke. I made her profile kinda skanky but I put her location as something from not around here so it wouldn't been seen by people we knew. I put her aim name in her profile(remember when aim was the shit?). so all these dudes kept messaging her on aim. she found out and did the same thing to me in retaliation except she used my real location. but she actually like talked to people on the site pretending to be me. one of the girls she was talking to happened to be a coworker at the time. i had no clue she was doing this. that was fucking weird and explained why this girl at work was being really weird and forward with me. she wasn't all that. i guess my friend got me back. i don't think she realized that the people she was fucking with could actually turn up in my life.

that's all i have to add.

oh and some random girl kept messaging me and wanting to show me her tattoos and piercings.... nipple piercings. and the tattoo on her ass. so i guess i got some free skanky tits and ass out of it.

not quite the same thing as this thread but kinda. i thought it was pretty clever.

[Waus]

she found out and did the same thing to me in retaliation except she used my real location.


This sounds like the premise of a romantic comedy.

[Adam]

This sounds like the premise of a romantic comedy.

40 year old virgin?

[Homsar]

My last relationship a few years ago was the result of the internet, but not from any official dating site. She found me on Myspace through mutual taste in music. I never thought much of it other than just an online friend. However, over the next few months, we started talking and before I knew it...I took a week worth of vacation time and visited her during the week of my birthday. We had a lot of fun. She came and visited me for a couple weeks shortly after and two weeks after she left, I packed my stuff and drove 13-hours to her place to officially move in.

Well, that was a mistake as I found myself in a serious abusive relationship. I was verbally, emotionally, and physically abused. My cat was as well. Long story short, because I thought about ending the relationship...she had a knife against my throat, tried to kill me...tried to castrate me...choked, punched, kicked, and stomped me. When I finally did move out, I left 99% of my belongings with her as I had to sneak out with the cats.

I haven't been in a relationship since... I now suffer post-traumatic stress disorder. I exhibited classic "battered person syndrome" symptoms.

Not sure if I'm a fan of online dating...

[Franci]

wow! :eek: :(