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Do you think there is still a social stigma attached to dating sites?
In other words, if you were to go onto a dating site and meet someone and have a relationship, then introduce this person to your friends, would you lie about how you met?
| Yes | 30 | |
| No | 45 | |
| Maybe | 17 |
No my friends aren't like that. They would be cool with it I believe, at least respectful.
I dont mind the social stigma. What annoys me is all the lying freak women on there who send you old pics of them before they got fat and ugly.
There is some social stigma attached to it, but it depends on the person. Some people only think of the negative when someone dates or meets someone online. Like "that person is dangerous" or "they aren't who they say they are", etc. However, it's good to stay on your toes about that. If I was in a relationship with someone I met online my honesty about it would depend on who I'm talking to. If it were a friend I wouldn't see the point of telling them unless they asked, but if it was a family member I'd keep all my personal business to myself.
I would want to come clean to everyone about how we met but I'd be sooo embarrassed, I do think dating sites are cool, everything these days is done in the virtual world people ought to change their perception towards dating sites being like porn kingdom or whatever. Of course there are creeps on there but at the same time there are creeps even in the real world.
I'm on two dating sites and haven't met anyone I think because I rarely go on them and I'm too shy to be the first to talk to the guys.
It depends on what age you are. For college aged people, they don't realize how hard it is because they spend 24-7 in a pool of unmarried, like minded, people of the same age. Once you get to about 25, people begin to understand that the real world doesn't work that way, and every day you don't have the opportunity to mingle with 30 other potential partners just by rolling out of bed.
I kind of look at it the other way. In college and that, you're surrounded by so many people, it becomes difficult to find one person in that whole mess. I agree on the other half of your point though.
I think there's still some social stigma attached to it, but a lot less than in the old days. More and more people meet their spouse through the internet. Not just trhough dating sites. Also other sites like facebook, internet fora and (maybe?) IIN
I wouldn't be afraid to say if I met my partner in the Internet. It's definitely something that's a lot more common now than it was back then. There are people with families right now that have met online.
There used to be but it's diminishing. People seem to think anything other than the most common experience is weird and should be judged. Now something like a quarter of couples meet online and so it's not "weird" any more.
Which means it wasn't "weird" ten years ago, either, despite what everyone thought. People need to think things through for their value and not just judge based upon how common something is.
I have once dated a man I met like this. I think it is possible to meet someone great on the net.