Parents - did your kids encourage you to try internet dating?


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I've heard lots of parents say that their kids are more tech-savvy than they are, and am wondering: is that the case with you and your kids?
Did your kids encourage you to try online dating, and do they participate with you at all?

Obviously this is probably more relevant to folks with older kids but would love to hear from everyone at least on the tech-savvy piece....one of my Facebook friends says her 3 year old is better on the computer than she is!
 
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Hi!
I jus wanna say that I've tried to talk my momma into tryin the online datin scene an she wont.

I love her, so I want her to live a full life and have fun an maybe have a guy friend to share things with like that morning cup o' coffee lol

She lost my dad when she was pretty young (37) an hasnt wanted to really meet anyone round where we live because of some of the fella's she's already met jus leave her with the impression that all they want is sex. Well she isnt that type of person.

So she hasnt met anyone decent for her, she wont try the internet because she isnt comfortable with a computer, and I dont really think she should go out an try to find a fella in a bar.

But yea, thats it.
 
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Oh, my kids are definitely more tech-savvy. They didn't, however, encourage online dating. I think they were somewhat shocked when I told them I'd signed up for eHarmony - amused, perhaps, but still very, very surprised.
 
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My kids are the only reason I tried internet dating

My girls took the pics....helped me write the profiles...and monitored whom I spoke to when i first started internet dating about 8 years ago.

I was doing so well with offline dating (or so I thought)...but my kids felt that my choices in men were crappy, and encouraged me to try internet dating.
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I still think I do much better with offline dating...but my kids strongly disagree...so here I am. (*sigh*)
 
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pds857 wrote :
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I jus wanna say that I've tried to talk my momma into tryin the online datin scene an she wont.

So she hasnt met anyone decent for her, she wont try the internet because she isnt comfortable with a computer, and I dont really think she should go out an try to find a fella in a bar.

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PDS.. My mom is the same way.. right now I can't get her to stop printing every email she receives.I mean she prints everything!. jokes-surveys-etc.. Then like two weeks will go by and she'll call me and sa, "I want to send that joke to so and so, how do I get this back into the computer".

Moms..gotta love em!
 
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They were not the reason I started but they are very aware that I post here and there. They often read email from potential matches. They have learned a lot about how to behave and how not to behave on-line because of my openness with this.

I am not really expecting concurrence on my actions. Just stating what I do.
 
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