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I have a profile at a dating site. Since then, I have received lots of messages. many guys want to meet and date me. I wander if anyone tried online dating and have success. Please post your idea, if you have experience.
Last edited by Cornerguy1; 10-29-2007 at 09:33 PM..
I would like to extend this thread to include the online dating sites that I've discovered... and hope everyone else will too!
matchdoctor.com -free, real people, limited in choices though it seems
match.com -NOT free haven't paid for it so can't give an opinion, haha
santamatch.com -free, but haven't looked into it yet
eharmony.com -free, but useless. apparently I am unmatchable
chemistry.com -NOT free, i got a reponse from a "man" all it said was "hey cutie I like your pic, let's talk" and I never went back, because.... (LOL) I hadn't even put up a pic yet... fakers.
Anyone else use anything that doesn't charge you to connect with people that you're willing to give your 2 cents on?
As far as the OP's question is concerned, there are many man success stories of online dating, man failures as well... someone on CD Land told me once, "Finding love is like the lottery. If you don't play it, you'll never win."
It definately threw a loop into my outlook on things!
As a woman, be very careful and don't take what your prospective dates tell you at face value. I think that new members of any site get an initial rush of the men trying to get the new girl first. Yes, the men will all want to go out with you, but to what ends? I don't think that it's ever a problem to get hookups, but much more difficult to find a meaningful relationship from these sites.
So remember that pictures can be fakes or enhanced. Many will tell you things that they think will get a positive reaction from you. Of course, on these dating sites, every one is putting a positive spin on who they really are.
I met my boyfriend on the internet, but it was through a message board and we starting out as only friends. It was a very relaxing process and there wasn't any romance or cybering in it. Six months later, we me in person. A month after that, we started dating.
Everything in my ad and my bf's ad was accurate, including the photographs. I met a few men through match.com and I didn't see any obvious fakers, i.e. everyone looked like their photographs and there weren't any huge holes in any stories.
A friend of mine met her bf on e-Harmony, another friend met his wife on match.com. So...nothing but positive experiences in my circle.
Location: Life here is not an Apollo Mission. Everyone calm down.
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After briefly helping out (lived with me for five months while he was on medical leave) an online love con-artist and watching his little operation, I would never use online sources to meet anyone. He scared the heck out of me. That is on dating sites. Now if it was by other online communities (forums like these, gaming etc.)...I personally would be more comfortable.
Last edited by MainStreet; 10-29-2007 at 10:15 AM..
That's right! You meet stable, well-adjusted people like me at a place like this!
okay... who let Shuke out of his paper bag?
Editing to include : anyone have any whoppers or nice endings to scoping out your local Craigslist.com?
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