Online Dating...does it work?


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theweave is offline theweave Post #11  January 5,2010, 8:12pm
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Nikita79 wrote :
I've found online dating to be more brutal than meeting people offline. There's no accountability. I miss the days when friends knew other single people to set you up with. At least then you knew that person had to be semi-normal without a criminal record.
That depends on who your friends are friends with!!!

I would hope that online dating works, if it doesn't than there are a lot of members on here that are chasing nothing! *LOL*

I can say it has and has not worked for me. I mean I have had dates with matches on EH, one six month long relationship with one (that ended up with suing her but..... ).. so in that way it is working.

I say it has not worked because I have not found "The One" and don't really meet people that well outside of the virtual world. That is my New Years Resolution... get out and try getting somewhere with someone!

Maybe I will try the experiment I read about somewhere: Go to a crowded bar one night and just walk up to someone and say "Hi I am ... wanna sleep wtih me?", that would get a reaction..also might get you slapped...but if she freaks, you can easily say she misheard you or you were kidding and continute to converse with her.

However, if she "Sure!" well that is another story all together...

I read that it does work and out of 100 you will probalby get 4 or 5 tramps to say yes!

Never know till you try, course the one I ask will also be "packing heat" that night!
 
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I'm feeling pun-ny tonight...so online dating does work, we have to put in the work, do all the work, expect it to work, and sometimes it doesn't work. I'm sure online dating does work, I haven't found where it worked for me

Happy New Year!
 
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buttonpusher wrote :
Met a girl, we talked for about 2 weeks. She asked me out, and I said yes, the day of she didnt call or anything and then randomly said she was sick...never heard from her again...whats with that? lol
She won the bet she made with her friends............ you know, the one where she bet her friends that by flaunting some T&A, she could get ANY man to do what she wants
 
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It is like trying to hit a fly with a sledghammer,

After a thousand successive tries, you *might* get one.

But you would be worn out, probably, by then, unless you had scored on the first swing.
 
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Nikita79 wrote :
I've found online dating to be more brutal than meeting people offline. There's no accountability. I miss the days when friends knew other single people to set you up with. At least then you knew that person had to be semi-normal without a criminal record.
You have no friends? Or your friends won't introduce you to their single friends?

I have been introduced to people by different friends and nothing has ever come of it past the initial introduction.

Actually this is not necessarily the case. There is a thread here of someone who was introduced to their friends coworker. Even though their friend had known the coworker for many years but had not known of the persons lengthy criminal history for serious offenses.
 
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Online dating is a misnomer, it is online introductions. You date in person

I am at least able to get to communicate with eligible single girls who are at least somewhat interested in dating via the online dating sites. I also get to the point where some of them will actually go out with me. And there have been a couple that have been interested in going out for more than just one date. This is much better results than I ever have had trying to meet people in real life.

You should also consider that if you are meeting people through your everyday travels you will only meet those that are at the same place that you are at the time that you are there.

So I think that it works.
 
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buttonpusher wrote :
Ok not sure if this belongs here, but Im starting to wonder how can online dating work. It seems informal, but yet not informal due to the fact you are putting yourself out there. Maybe its a profile im not sure, but I am interesting to hear some stories from you guys about somethings that have happened to you, successes and failures...I'll start it off:

Met a girl, we talked for about 2 weeks. She asked me out, and I said yes, the day of she didnt call or anything and then randomly said she was sick...never heard from her again...whats with that? lol
Isn't it possible she was really sick? Did YOU try contacting her?
 
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Gr8Guyn2008 wrote :
You have no friends? Or your friends won't introduce you to their single friends?

I have been introduced to people by different friends and nothing has ever come of it past the initial introduction.

Actually this is not necessarily the case. There is a thread here of someone who was introduced to their friends coworker. Even though their friend had known the coworker for many years but had not known of the persons lengthy criminal history for serious offenses.
I was just making a joke. Didn't realize everyone would take it to heart! Very serious bunch here.
 
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stevex wrote :
Isn't it possible she was really sick? Did YOU try contacting her?
How refreshingly non-bitter and non-angry was that answer!
 
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shoopthedoop wrote :
Guess it depends on what you are looking for.

Gone on quite a few online dates. Had a couple relationships out of it. So from that perspective it works.

None of them have lasted...
most of them wont-but it only takes one
 
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