I know I run the chance of getting bashed for this, but I am just curious as to whether the overall opinion of online dating is bad or good. I can explain why I am asking this if anyone wants to know, but all the background I am going to give for now is : Is it dating if you talk online for at least 7 hrs each night, call each other, and are going to visit each other as soon as possible?

It's all very shifty. I mean, sometimes it works, but a lot of times it doesn't. Guy's I was "dating" online where completely different and jerks when I met them offline. So I don't do that anymore. Just be careful with it is all I can say...

Online identities hide everything that's truth.

QFT...unless they actually go out on a limb and tell the truth.

Well, I met my first gf online in a Star Wars roleplaying group But I wouldn't consider that really dating.
And I knew her mother before I met the girl...

Go outside, god damn, its not difficult.

But there's sunlight outside

My morbidly obese uncle found a morbidly obese woman who cooks REALLY good to marry over the internet.

I was in an online relationship for 6 months, 4 to 7 hours a day, pretty much nonstop talking. Eventually, I ran out of things to say. She thought I was ignoring her, and that was that.

If I did it again, it would be with someone who wasn't so dependant upon me carrying conversations. I don't do that. I'm a listener.

If you think you can do it, go for it. Just make sure you have a few pictures before you meet. I had almost 200 from her, and we never even met.

absolutely.

At least out there in the real world, your eyes are not going to deceive you and you can see who you are really dealing with.

On the internet, its not always be that easy. You could be dating a man posing as a woman for all you know.

But it's scary out there! Lol,my luck dating "real" people sucks - and I know who the person is and I really like them...oh well...I'll keep you posted on whether we hit off in real life if anyone cares... He is coming up in about a month...



Oh, I definately have alot of pictures....:D

Definitely no. Besides, everyone knows there are no women on the internet :p

Because they know not to go into chatrooms :p

(for those who don't know, I'm alluding to an image... one that I will not post)

Online dating doesn't appeal to me. I prefer actually meeting the person becasue you can read somethings about the person in a face to face like how they are reacting to you and such. Plus, you can't do anything but talk to a person online (don't go there, people).

Actually, we did play AoE2 a lot, and sometimes JK. So, if you've got the same games, there's always that.

If it works, it works. If you're one of those lucky people who actually finds somebody they're really compatable with online, then more power to you.

If it doesn't end up being a stalker, then that's even better.

What I don't support is internet dating sites. Fill in these soandsonumber questions and find your soulmate! It's THAT easy!

If it is who I think it is, good luck with that

Worst...idea...EVER!

Lol....no Laura, defiately not Brandon, I don't think we would work at all face to face, and I don't talk to him that often at all....lol....it's someone else all together....lol...but I'll gladly share the dirt if you will IM me...

Its not dating unless you both agree it is. And really I wouldn't consider it dating until you've had 2 real dates in person and agree to continue it.

That's all I will say except this: I'm marrying the guy I met on the internet later this year.

For all you know your getting cyber dome from a 75 year old pedophile. Online dating is stupid and pathetic.

*doesent think on line dating is a good idea*

I have no problem with meeting someone online and then bringing it into real life. It's the long distance online relationships that I don't like.

I can think of many worse ideas.

- Lighting yourself on fire.
- Lighting someone else on fire.
- Eating a battery.
- Standing in a puddle of water while plugging the frayed cord of a hair dryer into an electrical socket.
- Hookiebobbing during rush hour traffic.
- Locking yourself in a walk-in freezer.

.. to name a few.

If you're talking about personal ads like Yahoo Personals or something, that's not internet dating at all. If you're talking, "lol 8pm at the #ritz see you there" then that's...stupid.

i once lodged a battery in my ear...
it was one of those little watch batteries, and i was about 8




and i laughed at this:
Yes 13 34.21%
No 13 34.21%
It depends on the situation. 12 31.58%

SHAZBOT. I voted no.. I read the question wrong.. I meant yes..


Arugh.

I could argue the lighting someone else on fire one. :p

What the devil do you talk about for 7 hrs?

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  do her}
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  do other babe}
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  do a dude}

Been doing it for almost a year now. We've met twice, each trip involved essentially living together for 2 weeks straight, worked out really well. Even the first time we met, it was after 3 or 4 months of talking and there was essentially no akwardness at all, it worked out smooth from the start. We love each other, and I base that love on everything thats happened in all the time we have talked and spent together, and the way I feel and have felt about her through those times.

I would have never dreamed that I would have gotten a relationship in the way that I did, but I did (We were, and still are, a part of the same MoH:AA clan). We live on opposite ends of the country but manage to make it work. I'll admit, its the hardest thing (emotionally, above all) that I have ever gone through in my life but it's worth it to me. The whole situation, just the way my life and her life played out prior to us meeting and since we have met just seems way to sacrosanct to let what we already have together slip away because of the distance. Cant explain it.

Also helps that my dad works for the phone company, unlimited long distance for free.

Clans suck.

Wow... I've done at least the first three.... (don't even ask about the battery-eating incident). Of course I've also dated online before. Damn, apparently I carry out a lot of bad ideas.

I honestly get the heebie-jeebies when a chick online hits on me. I have this one girl who I met before on a cruise on my buddy list, and she's the biggest freaking camwhore I've ever seen. She PMs me at 1:30 in the morning with her top off, drunk as hell. So I minimize her cam window and randomly go into the IM screen and type "Yeah." or "What did you do today?" or "That's not my chicken!" There's something about not being able to see the person who I'm talking to that just completelly turns me off. It's not even a physical thing, it's just that I can't see their intensions or the look on their face. It feels empty and wrong.

Not to mention, I can hardly see a relationship carying itself out online. 2 people who've met online, live near eachother, and see eachother on occasion... well, that's different. Someone who you talk to that lives across the world and you say things like "I love you" to them... that's just wrong.

But all of this is moot since I'm in love and have been seeing this guy named Aaron Ruthervein for like ever. He's really creepy, likes to suck blood and ****, but ooh does he have some dreamy eyes...

JediKirby

and on that note, I make my 3000th post under the Yecti account. And state my opinion

Online dating doesn't work 99% of the time.

I've done it, with a girl I met FIRST and then had to be relegated to an online relationship.

I cared alot about her, and she was awesome.

But eventually, it was too easy to let go, because it wasn't really there. Another woman took my interest, and immediate gratification overcame lengthy distance. *shrug*

Well, on some cases it may advance into a proper relationship. Mm, experience.