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It certainly is a superficial status booster for sure.
I have a few mates that's done a few clubs here in London and I went to school with one that turned out to be one of the biggest garage DJs in London....
Thanks for coming out to gender bash and outright lie. Good job, be proud!
I'm not bashing. All I'm doing is stating that online dating is good for women and not good for the large majority of men. Since online dating is becoming the standard way of getting dates initiated nowadays, this presents a problem for the larger majority of men, many of whom might otherwise be successful in the dating realm.
I'm not bashing. All I'm doing is stating that online dating is good for women and not good for the large majority of men. Since online dating is becoming the standard way of getting dates initiated nowadays, this presents a problem for the larger majority of men, many of whom might otherwise be successful in the dating realm.
If they are successful in other ways why wouldn't they be on online dating?
Now I'd assume your answer is that there are more men on online than women, so women can pick and choose etc?. If so the bar scene has always had more men than women and " the larger majority of men " have always done well regardless
I'm not bashing. All I'm doing is stating that online dating is good for women and not good for the large majority of men. Since online dating is becoming the standard way of getting dates initiated nowadays, this presents a problem for the larger majority of men, many of whom might otherwise be successful in the dating realm.
Someone alert the press. Online dating is easy for women that are somewhat attractive and tall good looking men.
If you are a loser in dating in real life you will be a loser at online dating also. If you do well in online dating you will do well in life meeting people also.
In the old days if an adult woman became single then she would have to get out into the social scene to meet a guy. Nowadays, as a guy, there are no social scenes for finding single women, because women can just create an online dating profile and boom -- dozens of dates lined up.
The problem is that if you're a guy who isn't 6'0" in height and doesn't make a good income, you are cut out of the online dating scene and have nowhere to find women. Bars are sausagefests. If you find anywhere that does have single women, they won't be interested in, and don't know how to, flirt with men in real life, because online dating is where they invest their energy.
Supposedly, only unattractive and socially awkward women use online dating since other women would have no need for it, so why worry about it?
The problem is that if you're a guy who isn't 6'0" in height and doesn't make a good income, you are cut out of the online dating scene and have nowhere to find women. Bars are sausagefests. If you find anywhere that does have single women, they won't be interested in, and don't know how to, flirt with men in real life, because online dating is where they invest their energy.
Meh, I'm 6'2" and make a six figure income and online dating still sucks. On the big popular dating sites I get about 1 or 2 responses for every ten messages sent….and I take my time and try to write something fairly decent. I don't just spam notes that say "Hi" or something ridiculous. Then when I get those 1 or 2 responses, at least 80% of the time they don't make it even to the exchanging numbers stage. And of the few that make it that far less than half ever turn into a real date. That means there's at least a hundred messages into getting one in person date. I think my results will improve slightly if I can get some good "action" pictures this summer, but I'm not expecting instant success, just slightly improved return message rates.
A couple of things though….
1) I've had much better luck with women in real life than I did in the days before online dating (yeah, I'm that old). I think that women get so overloaded with jerks online that are filled with courage to approach women they'd never have the guts to talk to in real life and say things they'd never say in person that when a gentleman approaches in real life your stock goes up quickly. I met one woman recently that was quite attractive (more than 10 years younger than me and certainly "out of my league") while I was buying my lunch in a deli. I've struck up lots of conversations in places like gas stations, restaurants, stores, and so on. I think if you're willing to put the effort in in real life it'll pay off.
2) I've also had much better luck on some of the sites for specific types of people. I have a profile on one that is specifically for people that are dominant/submissive and the response rate I get on that site is much higher than what I manage on any of the big generic dating sites. I don't have a profile on a Christian site or anything, but I'd bet the result would be similar.
Anyways point is that you gotta accept that the OLD thing is a grind. You gotta embrace the suck so to speak and just get on with it. In the end you only want it to work out completely once.
Meh, I'm 6'2" and make a six figure income and online dating still sucks. On the big popular dating sites I get about 1 or 2 responses for every ten messages sent….and I take my time and try to write something fairly decent. I don't just spam notes that say "Hi" or something ridiculous. Then when I get those 1 or 2 responses, at least 80% of the time they don't make it even to the exchanging numbers stage. And of the few that make it that far less than half ever turn into a real date. That means there's at least a hundred messages into getting one in person date. I think my results will improve slightly if I can get some good "action" pictures this summer, but I'm not expecting instant success, just slightly improved return message rates.
A couple of things though….
1) I've had much better luck with women in real life than I did in the days before online dating (yeah, I'm that old). I think that women get so overloaded with jerks online that are filled with courage to approach women they'd never have the guts to talk to in real life and say things they'd never say in person that when a gentleman approaches in real life your stock goes up quickly. I met one woman recently that was quite attractive (more than 10 years younger than me and certainly "out of my league") while I was buying my lunch in a deli. I've struck up lots of conversations in places like gas stations, restaurants, stores, and so on. I think if you're willing to put the effort in in real life it'll pay off.
2) I've also had much better luck on some of the sites for specific types of people. I have a profile on one that is specifically for people that are dominant/submissive and the response rate I get on that site is much higher than what I manage on any of the big generic dating sites. I don't have a profile on a Christian site or anything, but I'd bet the result would be similar.
Anyways point is that you gotta accept that the OLD thing is a grind. You gotta embrace the suck so to speak and just get on with it. In the end you only want it to work out completely once.
EDIT: I'm very sorry for this oversight and I'll pay more attention next time
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