Online dating sites: Rip off? (wives, girls, kids, sex)

[Huckleberry3911948]

Originally Posted by twixcookie

Isn't Myspace just having a personal page, and how does one "meet" someone on there?

well said. sounds healthy to me.
if the business practices of ebay were practiced on eharmony
40 percent of the eharmony users would be wearing handcuffs.

[francej16]

Originally Posted by twixcookie

Isn't Myspace just having a personal page, and how does one "meet" someone on there?

Depends on how you set it up and what you are looking for.

My profile even right now has only pics and graphics

when i was single I only posted very little about myself (don't trust the internet w/my personal info)

you can browse people and add as friends. from that point you just get to know them (w/o the stress of "relationship" material hanging over both of your heads) ..that's how it was with my husband. Loved talking to him over the phone and when we met for a movie we met as friends and went dutch.... thought it was cute but that was all....as time progressed I just fell in love

Some people use it as a match.com type of thing. depends on the person.

I have my friends back in Reno on my profile so i can stay in touch w/them (also have Ron Paul's profile, Tom Tancredo, Sarah Brightman and Chris Daughtry LOL)

[Huckleberry3911948]

Originally Posted by twixcookie

But not all people on the internet are liars.
But I have had similar experiences as you...but they turned out to be married men. Boy some will really lie about being married. Used to be able to check that out online.
Most of the singles were looking for casual sex, and figured someone on a dating site might be desperate.I disagree about it being different when one is older than younger. A lot of the older men want a 20 year old, and don't really care if an older woman takes good care of herself, or is even attractive, they want the college girl.

some of the women want younger men.
it cuts both ways.
a lot of times when you see guys "apply for the job" i mean the honest ones, they fill out her 7 page requirement checklist provided and actually and honestly meet the written stated requirements b u t
the gal says
wellllllll the chemistry just isnt there. the translation is-- i was looking for somebody 15 years my junior.
very common in california. it would seem the great impediment of relationships is denial.
if that is true, it greatly limits how close we can get to each other.
as to casual sex, i cannt imagine anyone but a madman wanting to follow such a course, in this day and age a high risk activity better a lower risk pasttime like bungy jumping or skydiving.



stephen s
san diego

[dreamofmonterey]

Some aren't too bad. Dont spend too much. There are some that are free. You can try milllionairematch.com- lol- there are some decent people on there- as long as you're not playing games, you do have a chance to meet people.

sunny

[Cecilia_Rose]

This thread peaked my curiousity so I skimed a few posts. I feel really sorry for singles now days and Im glad Im not one. I havent dated since 1970. I totally would not even know how to begin to act. LOL.

The reason Im posting is cause I see lots of interesting people on CD. You can tell a lot about people from reading their posts. Maybe some of you would like to meet each other for tea and crumpets.

I notice the realtors get a house beside their name. How about asking the big cheeses here at CD if you guys and gals could have happy faces beside your names. Happy face means happy to meet new people.

[VillageLife]

Originally Posted by Cecilia_Rose

This thread peaked my curiousity so I skimed a few posts. I feel really sorry for singles now days and Im glad Im not one. I havent dated since 1970. I totally would not even know how to begin to act. LOL.

The reason Im posting is cause I see lots of interesting people on CD. You can tell a lot about people from reading their posts. Maybe some of you would like to meet each other for tea and crumpets.

I notice the realtors get a house beside their name. How about asking the big cheeses here at CD if you guys and gals could have happy faces beside your names. Happy face means happy to meet new people.

I should have a house next to my name,I just have the house in my profile,
What do you think? I just feel I am trying to advertise myself if I have one..
But I think I know that a lot of you know me by now.

[triton1]

I feel the same way. I have never ever found a single free dating site in all the years that i have surfed the web. I have tried online chat rooms but it seems as if all the women in the chatrooms only want you to "see their webcams". And with widespread and insane per-capita social hostility and fake plastic women who are all full of themselves all over Chicagoland, and even as far flung as DeKalb and even in Sycamore, and with any places with high per-capita friendliness all located outside of illinois, there is no way I can possibly pay for chatting with singles. Another heart breaking reminder that I am totally and utterly screwed!

[Tina-Rebel]

For myself, i have found a date at Lovia - Home - Looking for great meeting experiences? but the relationship have end after two weeks. Now im with my boyfriend since 6 month and i dont have meet him with an online dating website. I prefer meet someone person to person, you can see if you can love him or not.

[mari4him]

Out of curiousity I went to Eharmony after one of their commercials was on TV. I saw it was free to make the profile and what not so I did all the tests and profile stuff and received many matches. However, I found that I could see very limited information about the person, could not respond to any of their questions nor ask them any questions unless I paid. I really had a problem with that whole paying thing. I was not feeling the need to pay to meet someone so I kinda left it alone.

I then found this other site offering 10 free days with full access. This made a whole lot more sense to me because I figured, if I like the site and want to pay (much lower fee) then I would, but if not, nothing lost. The site was ChristianCafe.

Well on my first day there, just after posting my profile and kinda looking around for a bit, familiarizing myself with the site, I received a couple winks. One really caught my eye and we started talking. Did so for a short time that first day, then again the next day for another brief time. From there I never would have imagined at that time when I first went to that site that I would be meeting the man I would be marrying. But I did. We are getting married 6/14/08.

We found it funny because he too had done Eharmony, he paid the subscription there but was not finding anything of interest in the matches he was getting. The interesting thing is that he and I have extremely similar views on just about everything. We are highly compatible. We even saw each other's personality profiles from Eharmony (he sent me his and I sent him mine) and we really did not live that far away from each other. Only 2.5 hours, which was okay within my radius. But somehow Eharmony never matched us. Odd but oh well. ChristianCafe didn't match us either, we kind of just matched ourselves on there I guess and it has been wonderful ever since.

[mari4him]

BTW, my mom too tried Eharmony, filled out the profile and had to continue to expand her radius practically to covering the whole world.... LOL... and nothing, no matches at all. She and I get a kick out of it because she is the first to admit that finding a man for her is neither a priority and could quite possibly not be a possibility because her standards are really high. Considering I am 38 and she raised me on her own and been on her own practically since I was 1... it gets to a point that for a woman such as herself, a professional, very independant, very spiritual, being able to match up and combine her life with a man becomes difficult at this stage of the game.