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With all the talk about online dating on here, I was just wondering if any of you who use it on here had seen anyone you know on there......moreover......did they see you?!?!?!?!
It seems as though after all of this time of online dating, people would be ok using it, or having someone you know know that you use it.
My sister has a hernia when she knows I am using it. She tells me to meet people out in the community. Ok sister. We live down the street from the Amish. Should I date Amos or Mose?
It's true. I used it back in 2008 after having been separated from my ex for many months. I was actually encouraged by someone on here! Well I did it and I met some nice guys and some weird guys, and a jerk. I picked the jerk.
Well, fast forward three years and I moved back to the area in which I grew up and all my family still lived. I wasn't really meeting people and did meet up with a few people from high school by way of facebook. Well, I wouldn't have dated them then, and that didn't change...
I got a message from a sort of nerdy-nice looking guy. He looked my age and had a nice profile.
He asked if my name was Robyn N. I was like omg. He told me I sat next to him in accounting in 10th grade and acted like he didn't exist.
I looked closer and yes, it was Matt from accounting. I don't remember being mean to him in school, I was just embarrassed out of my mind that someone from high school saw me on there. I never got to thinking that I saw him too!
Well, he was looking for someone to settle down with, marry and have kids. I was looking for the same, but I have already had my kids.
We would talk back and forth and chat. I gave him my number and we would text. He wanted to 'hook up' He wanted me to come over and watch movies with him and snuggle. He would even make the popcorn.
Sheesh! BF and I were talking about online dating the other day. It's where we met. He was fixing a friends pc for him the other day and came home telling me that his buddy was concerned with being able to get his e mails from Match and signing onto match. I was dying. I told my bf I was going to look him up.
I had actually been on Match a few days prior because I was trying to find my bfs profile. He had mentioned something about my profile that he really liked and was the reason he contacted me. I can't for the life of me remember his profile, so I wanted to look at it again.
He deleted his account he told me. I didn't delete mine. I just made myself invisible. Anyways, I found our friend and his profile is all lies.
I looked at his pictures and I was just telling my bf that I think I sent him a message back in the day. That is too funny. He told me I should make up a fake account and mess with his friend.... men are nuts.
I been using it forever and went thru this as a teen/early 20's.. it kind of sucks, cause, EVERYONE was once just a single person out having "fun" and maybe... sounding overly confident and exxaggerating themselves a bit? In real life we pass it off as "funny" like.. we smile about it and move on...
But, when that same thing is typed out on a profile, we think... what a lie! That's not true, he didn't play in a band! He didn't date her! That pic is just a 'paid model'! and you know it cause you know him, but, that's what all guys do?!?
It's not a "lie" it's just being "fun" because that's what dating is all about. The girls will separate the reals from the fakes once we meet
I been using it forever and went thru this as a teen/early 20's.. it kind of sucks, cause, EVERYONE was once just a single person out having "fun" and maybe... sounding overly confident and exxaggerating themselves a bit? In real life we pass it off as "funny" like.. we smile about it and move on...
But, when that same thing is typed out on a profile, we think... what a lie! That's not true, he didn't play in a band! He didn't date her! That pic is just a 'paid model'! and you know it cause you know him, but, that's what all guys do?!?
It's not a "lie" it's just being "fun" because that's what dating is all about. The girls will separate the reals from the fakes once we meet
I think every profile of the men I looked at said that they were laid back and easy going.
Well, that is what his says and he is the most uptight person I know! I know he isn't going to put I am so uptight but to know me is to love me..... I just feel bad for any woman that he pretends he is someone else for....
I know that I let my personality shine through. If they didn't like it they needed to move on. My sweetie could accept me for who I was. I wasn't out to pretend I was someone else and neither was he.
he is the same person he was the day we met... So am I
I've seen tons of people I know on dating sites. One of them was a guy i'm friends with.
the best story about the lies though that I have is actually from a guy that I was talking to on pof. He seemed nice and finally he calls me. I asked him how his experience has been so far and he said he hasn't met anyone yet. so I tell him one of my crazy stories. Suddenly, he "remembered" (which was weird) people he had met. He told me one and then he remembered another story. Well, he described this woman that sounded just like one of my friends and the only reason I thought of her was because she told me she used pof and met her current boyfriend on there. So, finally I asked him what the woman's name was. He claimed to not remember. well, he said she claimed to be a nurse and my friend always said she was a nurse when she was only in school for it, not yet a nurse, and currently working as a CNA (I think..). I was getting more and more convinced that it was my friend. Finally, he said "ya and she said she dances...does she dance?" and that was the kicker! She always claimed to be a cheerleader in high school and that she was on some dance team in town after high school, when it was absolutely NOT true and I knew it. If it were, she wouldn't have had any time to call me all the time and hang out all the time, or work 70 hours/week. Not to mention, I've known her for 10 years and have yet to go to any of her dance performances. Of course, on his end, I do remember her telling me about a date she had been on where the guy straight up ditched her in the middle of the movie. I don't know if he was lying, but this guy told me that they went to a movie. He didn't say what happened other than that he wasn't attracted to her. I was getting a bad feeling about him if he was really the guy that ditched her like that. lol, I guess his guilty conscience kept him from contacting me ever again. Fine with me!
I knew and saw several men from my office building on one of the sites. They had hit on me when I was first divorced and I wasn't interested. That's why I wouldn't post my picture in the sites, they would see me and think we should get together.
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So your name is Robyn??
What a creepy coincidence!
When I was browsing a dating site about 4 years ago, I saw someone who looked familiar. Yep, it was her. Robyn from high school (spelt the same way as yours too!). Let's just say, she was not a nice person. Extremely prickly, it seemed like she repelled just about everybody and hard to argue about EVERYTHING. I didn't know her THAT well, but she was always unkind to me so I didn't get to find out if she was hurting or what the whole story was. I sent a friendly hello, not intending to hook up with her just out of curiosity to see what she was up to. We chatted a bit on facebook and then she revealed that she'd been recently raped, or sexually molested, I didn't press for details but I don't think it was traditional penetrative sex, not to say it was 'less bad.' I'm not sure what it was. Anyway, I was just thinking about her, how she seemed such a bitter, angry person in school, and how she ended up being mixed up in that, and I did feel sorry for her. I tried to be sympathetic but everything she said was so negative, the only thing she could talk about was how terrible her life was, how all men were predatory dickheads etc. So I thought it best if I stopped talking to her.
I've never created an online dating account but I was curious to see if anyone I knew in high school was using it... Lots of people I knew.... Including one guy who is currently a local politician
When I first got on OKC, a friend of my ex-wife's emailed me saying "I thought you were married". I don't know who she was. My response was "Yes, I was, but she abandoned the marriage". Never heard from her again.
I saw a guy that works out at the gym I go to on that site that starts with an "M". In his profile he said that he has an athletic and fit physique. He does not. He also said that he makes 60K. Interesting because I know for a fact that the dude collects unemployment. He told me so just the week before.
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I know he isn't going to put I am so uptight but to know me is to love me..... I just feel bad for any woman that he pretends he is someone else for....
