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Did you ever get the ride or a relationship online on non dating sites and apps?

  • 25-12-2016 5:59pm
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭


    I remember when I was 19 or so when Yahoo Irish chat rooms were a thing, there were quite a few people meeting up on that.

    And when Facebook pokes were a thing years ago I ended up dating a girl as a result for about 6 months. If you sent or received a poke these days you'd run a mile and rightly so ;)

    Did you ever get the ride or a reletionship online on non dating sites and apps?

    No Tinder. No POF etc allowed.


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  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    I met my fiancée through boards...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,689 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    Loughc wrote: »
    I met my fiancée through boards...
    Holy s**t? Not in after hours I hope??


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    Loughc wrote: »
    I met my fiancée through boards...


    At a drinks meetup?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    ASL?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Yes I met Sexy singles in my area.


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  • Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Loughc wrote: »
    I met my fiancée through boards...

    so did many others :D


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    finisklin wrote: »
    intriguing thread. met my other half off line so don't qualify to post. Interested to hears others though.

    I read "get the ride" twice and thought it might be a parody...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    Augeo wrote: »
    so did many others :D

    :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 soo35


    Yip! From yahoo chat 15 years ago! Lasted 12 months. Chat rooms were great fun back then!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    soo35 wrote: »
    Yip! From yahoo chat 15 years ago! Lasted 12 months. Chat rooms were great fun back then!

    Sarah?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,191 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    Faceparty was a thing when i was younger..ended up seeing a lad from it on and off for years.
    Also met a few lads from boards too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    I remember when I was 19 or so when Yahoo Irish chat rooms were a thing, there were quite a few people meeting up on that.

    And when Facebook pokes were a thing years ago I ended up dating a girl as a result for about 6 months. If you sent or received a poke these days you'd run a mile and rightly so ;)

    Did you ever get the ride or a reletionship online on non dating sites and apps?

    No Tinder. No POF etc allowed.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    sammyjo90 wrote: »
    Faceparty

    Sounds like a site for those with a festish for bukkakke ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,191 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    Sounds like a site for those with a festish for bukkakke ;)

    Well if thats what it sounds like :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,218 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Only my two cents.. But I think the type of people who've used dating sites have changed over the years.

    Back over ten years ago when there was the social stigma of using a dating website, I think you'd meet more genuine people (meaning a lot more who actually wanted to date and see where things go) sure, always was and always will be those who just want sex. But it was an alternative way for people to meet.

    Now it seems like nearly everybody bloody uses them or has used them. Along with that comes more negatives... More Serial daters. Timewasters. Messers. You name it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,294 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    Tinder doesn't count? Why not? I know a few people who have got relationships from it. I've met a few girls through it but nothing serious.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,909 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    People ''meet '' in person, even if their first interaction was online. This whole online thing is silly. If I was to see in person someone I got to know online, then I would meet them in a beautiful place. That would then be place we met !


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Tinder doesn't count? Why not? I know a few people who have got relationships from it. I've met a few girls through it but nothing serious.

    Because there's whole threads elsewhere dedicated to Tinder and sites like it.

    This one is for stories about the websites that weren't meant to be dating sites but people end up meeting on them anyway.

    So, Facebook
    As we've heard, Boards
    Hell even Bebo was a bit flirty at times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    Met up with a girl off Yahoo Chat in 2006. Within an hour of meeting her I knew I was on to a winner. Got engaged in 2008, got a house in 2009 and married in 2010. Two kids since.

    Still can't believe how things have worked out!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    Met up with a girl off Yahoo Chat in 2006. Within an hour of meeting her I knew I was on to a winner. Got engaged in 2008, got a house in 2009 and married in 2010. Two kids since.

    Still can't believe how things have worked out!

    Great story. I didn't know Yahoo Chat was still a thing in 2006 though.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    Ew no.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    Ew no.

    Why "ew"?

    What's different from meting someone on non dating sites versus Tinder etc?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,551 ✭✭✭panda100


    Hooked up with a few people from boards through both board meetups and PM's. Would have met people through indymedia and politics.ie back in the day too!!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    panda100 wrote: »
    Hooked up with a few people from boards through both board meetups and PM's.

    You PM'd them without knowing what they looked like?

    That's old school ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,649 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    panda100 wrote: »
    Hooked up with a few people from boards through both board meetups and PM's. Would have met people through indymedia and politics.ie back in the day too!!

    Flicking through this and read that as chlamydia :eek:

    Must.Read.Slowly
    You PM'd them without knowing what they looked like?

    That's old school ;)

    Have you never been on a blind date?
    Have had some very positive experiences.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,095 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    Yeah I met a girl from the Yahoo chat rooms in 2002 and ended up going out with her for about 4 years. I also met a girl from a car discussion forum and went out with her for 3 years!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    Why "ew"?

    What's different from meting someone on non dating sites versus Tinder etc?

    People off the internet are yocky.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Do escort sites count?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    People off the internet are yocky.

    Doesn't your old, now closed, account have tens and tens of thousands of posts and weren't you a Mod at one stage?

    I'd have thought in all your service to this site you'd have gone to at least one Boards meet up and got the shift :p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,909 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Do escort sites count?

    Ford motor clubs do count, tell us your story.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,218 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Why not post this here I guess... :pac:
    One of my friends at the time met a girl from MySpace back in the day and lost his virginity to her. IIRC she was 5 years older than him.
    He just got chatting to her, then over a short time (a week I think) the conversation then turned into sex talk, he admitted he was a virgin and then she was up for it.

    Within 10 minutes of meeting her he was already doing it (met at her place) Normally when I hear mates say things like this you go yeah right. But... Afterwards he showed me the profile and some of the messages. Guess he wanted to prove it wasn't bs. Lol.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    Doesn't your old, now closed, account have tens and tens of thousands of posts and weren't you a Mod at one stage?

    I'd have thought in all your service to this site you'd have gone to at least one Boards meet up and got the shift :p

    Never heard of this other account. Don't know what you're talking about.

    Wouldn't kiss an Internet weirdo. You could catch a virus or something.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Wouldn't kiss an Internet weirdo. You could catch a virus or something.

    Aye, you could get a Trojan horse up your arse.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    Louis CK has mentioned in interviews that he used to meet random girls off MySpace too. It must have have been like a "POF for big music fans" back then.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    Never heard of this other account. Don't know what you're talking about.
    .

    My mistake so.

    Ahem :p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Louis CK has mentioned in interviews that he used to meet random girls off MySpace too. It must have have been like a "POF for big music fans" back then.

    Back in the early days it wasn't so much about the music. It was for perving.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,908 ✭✭✭Cazale


    Started talking to my missus on msn messenger through a mutual friend. We are still together 13 years later.

    Still waiting for the ride though.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    Cazale wrote: »
    Started talking to my missus on msn messenger through a mutual friend. We are still together 13 years later.

    Still waiting for the ride though.


    Ah yes MSN. It started off innocent enough but was basically "hey, wanna swap bold pics?" towards the end.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    Never have, wish I had though. Always had my boards "crushes" over the years, I'd guess they're all married and/or babied up by now. 🙂


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    beks101 wrote: »
    Never have, wish I had though. Always had my boards "crushes" over the years, I'd guess they're all married and/or babied up by now. 🙂

    ASL?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    I banned a girl when i was a mod about 4 or 5 years ago.
    I married her in August.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,416 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Met an ex on oceanfree chat and went out for five years (on and off). She's also a Boardsie but not sure if still posting. She actually persuaded me to join here.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    Super-Rush wrote: »
    I banned a girl when i was a mod about 4 or 5 years ago.
    I married her in August.

    A Boardsie?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    A Boardsie?

    Yep.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    ASL?

    16, f, California


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭Muff Richardson


    Loughc wrote: »
    I met my fiancée through boards...

    That hasn't answered the question though, have you gotten the ride out of it? Or are you both 'waiting'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,307 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    There have been a few posters on boards that have caught my attention with a turn of phrase and bit of witty repartee...
    One even posted a few tasteful nudie pics!!
    But I've never even knowingly met a female boardsie let alone managed to spear one ;)

    I got married recently and I do slag off the wife that we are an internet love story :)
    As whilst we did know each other prior to hookin up,we hadnt spoken in a few years and a bit of flirting on facebook led to a marriage ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Burial.


    To this day I still maintain Facebook is better for getting the ride than Tinder. You can show off so much more of yourself through Facebook than Tinder. Chatting is still the same.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    Burial. wrote: »
    To this day I still maintain Facebook is better for getting the ride than Tinder. You can show off so much more of yourself through Facebook than Tinder. Chatting is still the same.

    One thousand percent agree. I think Tinder lasted all but 2 days on my phone.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    I remember when I was 19 or so when Yahoo Irish chat rooms were a thing, there were quite a few people meeting up on that.

    And when Facebook pokes were a thing years ago I ended up dating a girl as a result for about 6 months. If you sent or received a poke these days you'd run a mile and rightly so ;)

    Did you ever get the ride or a reletionship online on non dating sites and apps?

    No Tinder. No POF etc allowed.

    I had women from Holland, Poland, Scotland, Ohio, W Virginia, Washington State and Hawaii sending me photos of themselves on a Yahoo! chatroom at the same time. I could easily have pressed for more revealing photos and got them but I don't want to be that kind of person. Part of me regrets not going further but part of me knows that I chose the right action.
    I don't find Irish women attractive enough to enter a relationship with and I've had more than my fill of them, so no, I don't want the ride from any of them tbh. That would have been about 5 years ago.

    And the Dutch woman was a model in her teenage years... and is still a sexy woman.


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