Do you believe in online dating?

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  • anti-hero
    10 years ago | pl

    I think that sites made for online dating are a bunch of horny dudes chasing a bunch of crazy women. Now meeting someone you click with on the internet on a non-dating site, that is a different story.

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    • [Old Memory]
      10 years ago

      Fantastic description, C.C!

      I agree, there's a massive difference between an online dating-site and connections made on forums. It's like the difference between searching for that special someone IRL at a bar/club... or getting to know many people through a common-interests/hobby/friendship group and then finding one you really click with.

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      • anti-hero
        10 years ago

        Nice add on and thank you.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    Getting to know someone through online dating is a bit easier than in real-life. People are more open and share more deeply personal information than they would in the same amount of time spent dating someone IRL.

    Where online dating starts to get tricky, is the physical distance. You can be extremely intimate with someone online, but nothing beats 'real' sex. But, it's not just the sex; it's everything wonderful about real-life relationships that has to be put on hold, even the mundane things like sitting on the sofa cuddle up while you watch stupid television.

    Also, someone is going to have to move if you want to be together in the future and that could take a lot of planning and time to make happen. Not everyone is up for waiting a few months or years in order to make it work, even for the right person--no matter how well they might fit.

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    • charli.m
      10 years ago

      This.

      I love your comments :)

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    • [Old Memory]
      10 years ago

      Oh, I have something to add about viewing each other for the first time...

      Online relationships are a whirlwind fantasy, right up until the point they see you on Skype for the first time. Then, they get to see you for the real dork you truly are. You can have a sexy personality, but nothing can veto it faster than not looking nearly as good as they were hoping you'd look.

      It's an enormous amount of pressure! Normally, by this time, you've become (at least somewhat) emotionally invested; otherwise, you wouldn't have trusted them enough to exchange photos--which typically occurs before Skyping. But, photos can conceal things a video call cannot.

      Maybe the only thing worse than Skype, is sending a video recording introducing yourself. You can't help but make yourself look like an awkward doofus due to the fact you are nervous as hell. It's normal to be nervous: you're about to be judged and potentially rejected.

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      • shuggy-chan
        10 years ago

        I'm always a dork

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        • [Old Memory]
          10 years ago

          I have to agree, but you are a funny dork - you can make girls laugh. ;)

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    "In person sexing" is the way to go.

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  • linhtinh_germany
    9 years ago

    Well, I would say, we have to be very good awared of what the online dating will bring?
    Very challenging, and difficult to screen out who is real, who is fake, who is good for you, who is not. we must be very careful for first crammer, spam ..and then followed by a series of securities reasons: safetyness, and then sharing things for a holidays...

    FYI, my first experience, we chatting for 6 months with a guy, by that time I feel he is interesting, he promises like an interesting guys with full of excited activities, but when meeting him in real, I felt he is a boring person that would not fit to me anymore, he has no senses of humor, no basic natural knowledge about everything, he just a European guy wanted some funs in Thailand, with little salary/ month and wanna show up with asian girl ...everytime he kisses me, I feel like to hate him so much ...so after few times of sex..even sex..he is so boring...I told him that, it does not matter how many times of sex/ day, it is quality and senses of feelings...but he just needs twice a day one in the morning and one in the everyning ..thats it...damn boring and after staying with him for few days in the beach, I just quietly disappear ...I feel so good without connection to him more ....that rubbish and careful with online dating, people polished their profile more than what they have.

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  • Unimportant
    10 years ago

    I believe in online dating. In the sense that I think that it does exist.

    Would I ever do that myself? No freaking way...

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  • kelili
    10 years ago

    I believe in online dating. I met a man this way and we had a really nice history which finally ended like almost all love stories. I really believe that you can meet your lifetime partner on a dating site.

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  • Avant-Garde
    10 years ago

    Oui!

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  • Holzman67
    10 years ago

    Call me old fashioned but I don't think you ever truly know someone till you've spent time with them in person. Knowing someone online is knowing their mind, not their heart.

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  • dom180
    10 years ago

    I believe it happens, is a generally good thing and works for some people. Which part of that are you asking about?

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