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Would you consider online dating?

casualmadness

casualmadness

Man About Town
Dec 15, 2005
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#1
I met my girlfriend online, though not through a dating site. It was a forum much like TB. We both posted in a similar forum about a few things and started emailing and decided to meet.
I've noticed when people ask how we met, and we tell them online, many people tend to get a holier than thou attitude as if we're somehow not legitimate due to the fact that we met in what many deem an "unacceptable manner." Luckily I don't give a #### what anyone thinks. But my g/f stresses about it-to the point that she's started lying about the way we met.
So what do you think TB'ers? What's your opinion of meeting someone online?
 
#2
I've met lots of guys from online, and also lots of guys from bars and school and various other places.

I used to get the same "holier than thou" attitude when I'd say I met someone online. But usually I'd follow that up with "at least I was sober and I knew something about him!"

I consider meeting a guy online to be better than meeting him drunk at a bar and writing a phone number on a napkin. It just hasn't been around very long, so people object to anything that's new. But dating services have been around for decades--so what's the difference between online and those phone dating services? You can lie just as easily in all circumstances.

If your girlfriend says "we met online" and someone says something rude, she should just look them in the eye and say "why do you say that?" Then follow it up with a cold "well, we are very happy to have met, thank you." It shuts people up quick!
 
#3
disenchant said:
If your girlfriend says "we met online" and someone says something rude, she should just look them in the eye and say "why do you say that?" Then follow it up with a cold "well, we are very happy to have met, thank you." It shuts people up quick!
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I usally get mouthy with people when this happens as I'm kind of an ####### like that. I realize it isn't worth getting upset over but I'm a hothead. Can't help it. And 90% of people suck anyway...so blowing up on one or two won't cause me to lose any sleep. It just sucks that people still trip on that stuff. One of my friends married a chick that he met on eHarmony and they're way happy. Been married like four years or something now.
 
#10
I met a girl on match.com 5 years ago.

We both had the same reaction to each other when we met up, which was "At least Im getting dinner (margaritas) out of this. But we had a nice time at dinner (more margaritas), which became a couple of rounds of really bad pool (pint after pint of beer) at the pool hall across the street.

Married her 4 years ago.

:hyper:
 
#11
Before computers, and there are some of us who can still remember that time in history, some people met and developed relationships through what hey called "pen pals". Some of us today who are incarcerated or are in the military still correspond via "snail mail". There were also "singles" clubs; chaperoned social gatherings designed to permit people to meet in places other than bars, churches or the work place. I really do not see the difference between those scenarios and meeting someone through computer communication. I would venture to guess that various police agencies monitor the computer meetings more stringently than any of the aforementioned gatherings or lines of communication.
 
#16
I'm allowed to look at the menu as long as I eat at home.

Back in my day, we didn't have this new fangled "internet" thingy. You had to wait for a woman to come down to the river bank to do laundry and whack her over the head with a stick.
 

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