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I spent two days on POF and had incredible amount of success. I am still dating the girl I met during this time, its been two months. Just use it as complementation to your real life dating. Believe it or not, a keen eye can easily pinpoint the fakes and there are quite a few advantages to online dating versus real life dating. Meeting someone outside of your social circle is like a breath of fresh air at times, and you have a chance to get to know the person youre meeting unlike meeting in real life. Just like anything else in life, its what you make of it.
You do need to be careful, and there are scammers out there, but if you use your brain and a little patience, there are some wonderful, legitimate people out there that are looking for love.
I've personally had a wonderful experience. I am in a serious committed relationship with a man I met in early September on POF. He is everything I was looking for, and I'm so grateful to have found him. I am 'really' happy. We met in person a couple days after our first contact, and we've been together ever since! I had to weed through a few frogs to find my prince, but I found him (or I should say, he found me!)
I spent two days on POF and had incredible amount of success. I am still dating the girl I met during this time, its been two months. Just use it as complementation to your real life dating. Believe it or not, a keen eye can easily pinpoint the fakes and there are quite a few advantages to online dating versus real life dating. Meeting someone outside of your social circle is like a breath of fresh air at times, and you have a chance to get to know the person youre meeting unlike meeting in real life. Just like anything else in life, its what you make of it.
One of your best posts ever (and I'm not a fan of some of them...)
This is exactly my experience. Bolded comments for emphesis.
FWIW, it's possible to have a good experience on sites like POF, Match, etc. Yes, there are scams, but you'll find that out soon enough (often within 1-2 message exchanges).
This coming from a guy who is set to marry a beautiful, amazing woman (and mother of my two soon-to-be stepchildren/siblings of my own two children) next month. I sent her a note last August, met late September (after a number of online chats and phone calls), and have been happy in love ever since!
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Extensive? Pfah...I've been on several online dating sites for only a couple months and I could tell already that I was receiving loads and loads of scam messages. At least now I know what to look out for, I can tell at a glance whether a profile is real or not.
Yes, anyone with basically any dating experience lol...
FWIW, it's possible to have a good experience on sites like POF, Match, etc. Yes, there are scams, but you'll find that out soon enough (often within 1-2 message exchanges).
This coming from a guy who is set to marry a beautiful, amazing woman (and mother of my two soon-to-be stepchildren/siblings of my own two children) next month. I sent her a note last August, met late September (after a number of online chats and phone calls), and have been happy in love ever since!
--Dim
Congratulations, that's rather fast isn't it, must have been sparks flying when you met.
Congratulations, that's rather fast isn't it, must have been sparks flying when you met.
It may have been a little fast, but both of us knew what we wanted. I should note that we didn't physically meet until about 6 weeks after "first contact". We wanted to spend a little time getting to know each other (online/text/phone) before we met. It was a mutual decision and turned out to be a great one. When we did have a "real date", we didn't have much of the first-date-awkwardness and things felt very comfortable. That first date was October 5, 2011.
I proposed to her on April 26, 2012, and we're getting married on December 28, 2012.
To be honest, it doesn't seem like it's only been a year. Everything has meshed so well (including families) that it seems like it's been longer.
Meeting someone outside of your social circle is like a breath of fresh air at times, and you have a chance to get to know the person you're meeting unlike meeting in real life. Just like anything else in life, its what you make of it.
I think this is a good point: one, meeting someone outside your social circle takes you out of your comfort zone and that's not necessarily a bad thing. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I don't really want to do the online thing again so yesterday I decided I need to start doing something once a week that's just me without my friends to break out of my comfort zone and broaden my horizons. And life definitely is what you make of it.
I'm surprised the article states one in 10. I would have thought it was more than that. A couple of months ago, one of my good friends was contacted on eHarmony by a "local" woman who was able to speak intelligently on local events, hot spots, etc. Mid-30's, she told him all about being widowed two years ago and how a couple of years prior to that, she lost the other man in her life: her father. And then he got the song and dance about how she had to go to Africa to settle her late hubby's estate, and she was robbed and needed money, etc. He was suspicious but wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt at first because (other than the Africa part) that is my life story and we met 2 years after my husband died so to him it had credibility and he didn't believe my claims that even paid sites have fake profiles.
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