Comments on: The Beauty of Online Dating

By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:57:12 +0000

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By: CanuckJacq

CanuckJacq — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:21:03 +0000

I actually met someone online for the very first time in 1994. We’re still in touch.

And oh hell, I met all you guys online didn’t I?

Yay for meeting people online then.

But as it happened, the one person I didn’t meet online is my wife.

By: Hal

Hal — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:20:04 +0000

LOL…brilliant post!

I know a couple who met through a personal ad in a mag (actual Hard Copy – how retro) years ago. They were both just coming out and became friends, then lovers. Still together 15 years later So it can work.

I agree with Lemur though, a website for beautiful people only will just be full of either more conceited and/or better liars.

By: Gooner

Gooner — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:51:10 +0000

I can’t believe they took people off the site for putting on weight, that is just horrible, as if people don’t feel bad enough.
I answered an ad in the GCN once and from it I met my best frind, defo a soul mate, all be it a platonic one.
Good luck to people who use these sites and to those who meet people on the net in other ways, why not!!!

By: CanuckJacq

CanuckJacq — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:48:26 +0000

LOL! OMG the screaming guy. That’s … nice.

By: Demure Lemur

Demure Lemur — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:16:13 +0000

Great post! I love hearing about other people’s bad dates; it makes me feel better about my own. I’ve never had a new love interest call me four times in one day in tears (that’s special), but I have had a bloke regale me with a long and strange story about how he once had a flatmate whose girlfriend screamed in bed. It went on and on. He even impersonated the noises she made. I listened with ever wider eyes, wondering where the hell he was going, before he hit me with the punchline: ‘so lemur, do you scream in bed?’ Em. What do you even say? ‘Oh I do yes, right noisy I am, scream the house down, I sound kind of like this ”eee-eeee-eeeeek” so I do’.

I met that guy at a corporate function. He was cute and seemed normal. I think there’s a lot of stigma attached to using dating websites, but I’ve loads of friends who’ve met their partners that way. When you think about it, it makes more sense – you already know a little about the person you’re going on a date with, or at least you know more than he or she is cute and seems normal. I suppose the other thing is that it allows you to pick and choose the characteristics you want in a potential date. You can use this for good (like finding someone who likes the same literature as you) or you can use it for evil (like only dating people with eating disorders). I have a hunch, however, that eventually the beautiful people dating site is just going to be one dude sitting drooling over his own profile on the computer screen.