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Maybe you can help me understand your point of view. For you, what makes the energy on a date different due to the way you met? I find that how I met a woman doesn't really matter so much. We're either going to have a connection on the date or we're not; whether we met at a bar, or party, or work, or dating website, or social network, or whatever. The only thing the internet changes for me is increasing the size of my pool of potential dates. Once we're actually on the date, it's the same as any other first date, really.
Maybe you can help me understand your point of view. For you, what makes the energy on a date different due to the way you met? I find that how I met a woman doesn't really matter so much. We're either going to have a connection on the date or we're not; whether we met at a bar, or party, or work, or dating website, or social network, or whatever. The only thing the internet changes for me is increasing the size of my pool of potential dates. Once we're actually on the date, it's the same as any other first date, really.
Its difficult to even get responses on dating sites, of course its difficult in real life too so if your not hot your going to have just as much of a hard time on a dating site as you would in real life. Just becuase there are profiles like a cataloug does not mean you have better access to women to date.
Maybe you can help me understand your point of view. For you, what makes the energy on a date different due to the way you met? I find that how I met a woman doesn't really matter so much. We're either going to have a connection on the date or we're not; whether we met at a bar, or party, or work, or dating website, or social network, or whatever. The only thing the internet changes for me is increasing the size of my pool of potential dates. Once we're actually on the date, it's the same as any other first date, really.
I get what your saying. But the thrill and excitement of approaching a stranger and talking and hitting it off and going on a date, etc. to me is an amazing experience. With online dating you are seeing a picture on a screen.. a complete detailed description of that person.. their likes.. their dislikes. It really takes away from the initial bonding and chatting that comes with the first few dates of meeting someome in real life. But you are right that the online pool is bigger. I dont have a problem with online dating. I just prefer offline. I met my gf in a bar and I have no doubt she is the one for me. I plan on proposing at the end of the year when we vacation in Latin America
Its difficult to even get responses on dating sites, of course its difficult in real life too so if your not hot your going to have just as much of a hard time on a dating site as you would in real life. Just becuase there are profiles like a cataloug does not mean you have better access to women to date.
Sure you do. Even if you get turned down by 90% of women, that leaves 10% of an online pool of thousands of women, which is way more than 10% of a pool of 10 women you might encounter in day-to-day life (or even 100-200 women if you're a social butterfly).
Last edited by nearnorth; 08-28-2013 at 02:48 PM..
I get what your saying. But the thrill and excitement of approaching a stranger and talking and hitting it off and going on a date, etc. to me is an amazing experience.
This is probably a personality difference between us, then. I get no thrill from approaching and talking to a stranger. I find it awkward at best, and almost never do it. I can probably count on one hand the number of women I've met at a bar and dated. Most of them approached me first, and the quality was way lower than the quality of women I've met online. I can see how, for guys who are interested in (and good at) the bar pick-up thing, online dating might not be as much fun.
This is probably a personality difference between us, then. I get no thrill from approaching and talking to a stranger. I find it awkward at best, and almost never do it. I can probably count on one hand the number of women I've met at a bar and dated. Most of them approached me first, and the quality was way lower than the quality of women I've met online. I can see how, for guys who are interested in (and good at) the bar pick-up thing, online dating might not be as much fun.
Chatting with strangers doesn't have to involve bars. Strangers cross your path all the time, as you go about your day, or in your weekend activities.
Chatting with strangers doesn't have to involve bars. Strangers cross your path all the time, as you go about your day, or in your weekend activities.
Of course. I've dated from that pool, too. It's just a way smaller pool.
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