Internet Dating

fakearms123 · 10-05-2011 03:01PM #1

Internet dating is no longer a taboo, there are adverts on tv everyday promoting dating sites like www.match.com and you hear it on the radio on your way to work.

But has anyone here ever tried it? Has it worked out for you? And for the people who haven't tried it, would you?

Sykk · 10-05-2011 03:02PM

How much are match.com paying in commision?

Oh yes, I'm onto you.

super_furry · 10-05-2011 03:03PM

Internet dating - the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

Guill · 10-05-2011 03:04PM

Tried it once, got barred from Bebo then, heafty sentance in the Joy too.

biko · 10-05-2011 03:05PM

fakearms123 wrote: »

But has anyone here ever tried it? Has it worked out for you? And for the people who haven't tried it, would you?

How about you start the sharing and why you want this information, might make others open up.

Guill · 10-05-2011 03:08PM

biko wrote: »

How about you start the sharing and why you want this information, might make others open up.

#

Really?

dpe · 10-05-2011 03:09PM

I think the Irish are still quite sniffy about it, that's why you have all those silly coy names like "maybefriends". Everyone uses online dating sites in the UK.

jester77 · 10-05-2011 03:11PM

It's looks like a good way for the socially awkward to meet people, haven't tried it but wouldn't dismiss it.

Homer · 10-05-2011 03:11PM

I met a girl from an internet dating site last night, who's profile headline had been
"Wanting to meet my partner in crime".

Apparently me being the rapist, her being the victim, wasn't the crime she had in mind??

FatherLen · 10-05-2011 03:12PM

yeah buts its kinda ghey

xoxyx · 10-05-2011 03:13PM

I know this is unfair, but I would totally judge a guy who uses internet dating. It sounds fun - just like speed-dating (I love the concept of speed dating!) - but there's something about it that would turn me off a person using it.

Dating is supposed to be all about the fun, and maybe something will come of it. Using dating sites just seems like desperation.

fakearms123 · 10-05-2011 03:14PM

biko wrote: »

How about you start the sharing and why you want this information, might make others open up.

Haha just realised it sounded like I was promoting match.com but luckily I am not, I do in fact feel I should cash something for plugging their website.

The reason I ask about internet dating is because is it a more modern way of getting in touch with the opposite sex or is it just a lazy option for people who just want to type into the search engine "likes popcorn, jungle jims and pajamas" and then you have a fliter of women who like popcorn, jungle jims and pajamas.

Does it save the more modern, busy, career-comes-first type of people who live in this world now and that the old fashioned going up to a girl or guy in a social setting and asking them about their interest doesn't work anymore, are we passed that in our fast paced technological world?

Chris P. Bacon · 10-05-2011 03:14PM

FatherLen wrote: »

yeah buts its kinda ghey

You mean Grindr?

Uriel. · 10-05-2011 03:14PM

FatherLen wrote: »

yeah buts its kinda ghey

How?

Maybe a dating website for gay people is gay.. but.... eh, never mind...

giant_midget · 10-05-2011 03:29PM

freaks...people from the internet are freaks...:pac:

dpe · 10-05-2011 03:29PM

xoxyx wrote: »

I know this is unfair, but I would totally judge a guy who uses internet dating. It sounds fun - just like speed-dating (I love the concept of speed dating!) - but there's something about it that would turn me off a person using it.

Dating is supposed to be all about the fun, and maybe something will come of it. Using dating sites just seems like desperation.

This is what I'm talking about Irish people being sniffy about it. In the UK and US, the attitude is its less random than the pub and from a woman's POV they can screen out the weirdos in advance more easily. for most people its not a matter of desperation, its a matter of who has the time? Better to do the leg work online. Have to say most of my exeriences of online dating (even on the occasions when things didn't go anywhere) were quite good, and in one case life-changingly good.

mgmt · 10-05-2011 03:33PM

Came across my old housemate's profile on a dating website. I pity the guy who went on a date with her. She was MASSIVE. Severely overweight. She didn't mention this on her profile. She also didn;t mention her real hobbies was to constantly cry and to order takeaway pizzas every night.

FatherLen · 10-05-2011 03:42PM

Uriel. wrote: »

How?

Maybe a dating website for gay people is gay.. but.... eh, never mind...

ok it is not gay in the homosexual sense of the word. it is gay in the sense that missing the bus is gay or how using an internet dating site is gay....

xoxyx · 10-05-2011 03:49PM

dpe wrote: »

This is what I'm talking about Irish people being sniffy about it. In the UK and US, the attitude is its less random than the pub and from a woman's POV they can screen out the weirdos in advance more easily. for most people its not a matter of desperation, its a matter of who has the time? Better to do the leg work online. Have to say most of my exeriences of online dating (even on the occasions when things didn't go anywhere) were quite good, and in one case life-changingly good.

Who has the time to go out and socialise and meet a partner? If you don't have the time for that, how are you going to fit in a relationship?

Alter-Ego · 10-05-2011 04:09PM

Uriel. wrote: »

How?

Maybe a dating website for gay people is gay.. but.... eh, never mind...

Ghey, not Gay. Gaaaaaawwwwwwd!!

dpe · 10-05-2011 04:27PM

xoxyx wrote: »

Who has the time to go out and socialise and meet a partner? If you don't have the time for that, how are you going to fit in a relationship?

Most people don't have the time/can't afford to go out every night (and as you get older you start going to the same places and see the same faces more and more), but they can access an online dating site any time. If it didn't work, people wouldn't do it, and 1 in 6 of all US marriages wouldn't be facilitated by it.

What can I say? It works and millions of people are using it.

stupidusername · 10-05-2011 04:34PM

Well i'm going to go ahead and say i've tried it.i am socially awkward and dont have a whole lot of with which to go out,and they're all men,so I guess that's why I gave it a go.didn't find it much use to me though.but dont mean to put anyone off it!

--LOS-- · 10-05-2011 04:42PM

I wouldnt have any problem using it if I was single and actually looking to meet someone

fakearms123 · 10-05-2011 04:49PM

stupidusername wrote: »

Well i'm going to go ahead and say i've tried it.i am socially awkward and dont have a whole lot of with which to go out,and they're all men,so I guess that's why I gave it a go.didn't find it much use to me though.but dont mean to put anyone off it!

did you organise a date with anyone? Did it serve its purpose as being internet dating?

Liam Byrne · 10-05-2011 04:51PM

dpe wrote: »

....from a woman's POV they can screen out the weirdos in advance more easily.

And I'm still waiting for them to provide that facility for us guys!

Chris P. Bacon · 10-05-2011 04:52PM

FatherLen wrote: »

ok it is not gay in the homosexual sense of the word. it is gay in the sense that missing the bus is gay or how using an internet dating site is gay....

Missing the bus is gay

Back in my day, gay used to mean happy,we all had a gay old-time in the summer when all this was fields.

stupidusername · 10-05-2011 04:52PM

fakearms123 wrote: »

did you organise a date with anyone? Did it serve its purpose as being internet dating?

Yep I did.had three or four.

xoxyx · 10-05-2011 04:54PM

dpe wrote: »

Most people don't have the time/can't afford to go out every night (and as you get older you start going to the same places and see the same faces more and more), but they can access an online dating site any time. If it didn't work, people wouldn't do it, and 1 in 6 of all US marriages wouldn't be facilitated by it.

What can I say? It works and millions of people are using it.

Of course it works, and it's very succesful. What I don't like is how forward it is. "Hi, my name is XXX. I'm tall, dark and handsome, and, of course, I have a GSOH. Would you like to have my babies?"

When did life become all about meeting a partner; and if the person who put up their profile was so tall, dark, handsome and funny, why haven't they met somebody already?

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 10-05-2011 04:56PM

I use a fantastic site, its free, plenty of chicks and you can learn a lot about people without even speaking to them...

Bebo, I think its called.......anyway...im sitebanned there now.

stupidusername · 10-05-2011 04:59PM

xoxyx wrote: »

Of course it works, and it's very succesful. What I don't like is how forward it is. "Hi, my name is XXX. I'm tall, dark and handsome, and, of course, I have a GSOH. Would you like to have my babies?"

When did life become all about meeting a partner; and if the person who put up their profile was so tall, dark, handsome and funny, why haven't they met somebody already?

Well you could say the same for anybody that's single really,not just specific to dating sites.people are different.

dpe · 10-05-2011 05:01PM

xoxyx wrote: »

Of course it works, and it's very succesful. What I don't like is how forward it is. "Hi, my name is XXX. I'm tall, dark and handsome, and, of course, I have a GSOH. Would you like to have my babies?"

When did life become all about meeting a partner; and if the person who put up their profile was so tall, dark, handsome and funny, why haven't they met somebody already?

Well, speaking for myself, my excessive tall dark handsomeness was intimidating for women, so I found online is the best way to break them in to my overall awesomeness. But that's just me.

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