Internet Dating Discussion

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becky170 wrote: »

That's hiliraous... hopefully it gave you a bit of a laugh snowbrow. I've now been on plenty of fish for 3 days, and so far I've not been asked for a sex once. I have been chatting to a couple of guys who seem nice and geunine, but I suppose I'll only know if that's actually the case if I meet them. There have been quite a few guys e-mailing and saying hi, how are you? but I'm not bothering replying to them as if they were actually interested in you they'd write something a bit more insightful.

Indeed it made me laugh and it is going to make for great conversation with my friends who are encouraging me to do online dating lol. Never the less I will persevere....

tomstickland

Look around and you'll find people who are disappointed with Match giving Eharmony a go and you'll find people who are disappointed with Eharmony giving Udate a go, and people who are fed up with Udate trying out MySingleFriend, and people from there deciding to give Match a go.

Likewise you'll find people who have been successful at any of those sites.

All the big name dating sites are the same sort of thing really. It's like self-help books; they thrive in a stream of disappointed people going from one to the other, trying them out and sometimes it working out.

I joined Eharmony late last year after making a decision to give one dating site a decent chance. I've cancelled my subscription and that will run out in a month or so now.

I had a few matches where we spent quite a while chatting and then texting but that's as far as I got. Eharmony has a pretty bad user interface that makes the whole thing rather tedious.

They're not that bad, but they're no better than any of the others either.

Empty_pockets

I can never understand how women struggle to find guys.

Why not just go to a bar one night? There will be plenty of guys all over you!

It's us fella that have it tough trying to seperate one from the herd:rotfl:

Jinx

I joined a dating site a few years back after a while of meeting guys in clubs etc...

Spent 2 years having a blast, chatting, dating some lovely men and going to nights out with groups of people from the dating site. I used a site that you had to pay for on the premise if theyre too cheap to pay subscription theyre too cheap to take me out IYSWIM lol I used datingbbw - its for ladies size 16 and over and it has a chatroom which is really good.

Met my now hubby in 2005 after chatting to him as an online buddy from the dating site. Now been together 5 years and heading to our 1st wedding anniversary

tomstickland

Speed Dating:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XppEzopIahs

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Just thought I Remind people this weekend until monday is a free communication weekend at eharmony!

blinko

i woulda void this site its the longest site EVER

ambyence

just wanted to add to those who are saying it can work:
for every ten or so 'hi how r u?' or 'u r well fit' messages on dating sites (free or otherwise), there may be one that has actually read your profile, asks a revelant question in the interest of getting to know more about you, is articulate and can engage in intelligent conversation.
yep, there's a lot of people on there just after one thing, and/or claiming that their wife doesn't understand them, which initially put me off big time. it depends if you can see past that - let's face it, it happens in real life as well as online - although the online type are maybe more anonymous and therefore tend to be a bit 'braver'/more brazen (depending on how you view it...)
i met my now fiance online (POF by the way). for various reasons i was pretty guarded and as such kept it to just online chats for a good six months or so. bless him, he perservered. eventually agreed to meet up with him. long story short, we are great for each other, are now engaged and getting married next year.
good luck whichever avenue you go with

blinko

ambyence wrote: »

just wanted to add to those who are saying it can work:
for every ten or so 'hi how r u?' or 'u r well fit' messages on dating sites (free or otherwise), there may be one that has actually read your profile, asks a revelant question in the interest of getting to know more about you, is articulate and can engage in intelligent conversation.
yep, there's a lot of people on there just after one thing, and/or claiming that their wife doesn't understand them, which initially put me off big time. it depends if you can see past that - let's face it, it happens in real life as well as online - although the online type are maybe more anonymous and therefore tend to be a bit 'braver'/more brazen (depending on how you view it...)
i met my now fiance online (POF by the way). for various reasons i was pretty guarded and as such kept it to just online chats for a good six months or so. bless him, he perservered. eventually agreed to meet up with him. long story short, we are great for each other, are now engaged and getting married next year.
good luck whichever avenue you go with

what the hell you chatted to a guy online for 6 months, why did you join upto a dating site and not meet anyone for 6 month, your very lucky he bothered to hang around !

you got very lucky, my adivce to anyone on dating sites is after approx 3 - 6 emails you shoudl be asking someone out for a drink and getting a number, if they ignore you or fob you off etc

move on because they are timewasters

geez how can you join upto a dating site and not meet anyone for 6 months !

chika

POF is ok just delete the weirdos. You can normally weed them out anyway. IMHO the best free one is OK Cupid. The blokes on there just seem to be of a better "quality" (don't lynch me) than the ones on POF.