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LePetitPrince
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13 Aug 2007, 4:35 pm

this is interesting : http://www.onlinedatingmagazine.com/dat ... odate.html

and here more funny stories from both genders : http://www.onlinedatingmagazine.com/onl ... ences.html


Men and women, don't ever think of using a dating site .



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13 Aug 2007, 8:34 pm

I've been using them for years and quite enjoying it.

I do, however, keep my guard up.



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13 Aug 2007, 9:12 pm

It's been a year since I was teamed up on by the Dating Advice Forum for criticizing their "humor website" Way Too Personal, and I'm still mad.


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14 Aug 2007, 10:36 am

Within a couple of weeks of joining a dating site I met a man who is now my boyfriend. It is going quite well. Not all dating site experiances are bad.



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14 Aug 2007, 12:44 pm

Dating sites is pretty much the only way I've been able to meet girls, or at least the girls who actually liked me. It's the way I found my first date ever, and my first free sexual encounter ever. (I've also been with escorts, who I also found online.) The key is to always have a BS detector working, which is basically your intuition or gut feeling. In other words, if something doesn't feel right, then it's exactly like that. But overall, online dating sites let you find people (i.e. the ones who would actually be interested in you) you wouldn't meet otherwise.



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14 Aug 2007, 1:04 pm

Dating sites are f*****g rediculous! The only good ones I know require a fee.. :/



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14 Aug 2007, 2:55 pm

The only site on the Internet that brought me someone is this one here lol!! !



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14 Aug 2007, 4:11 pm

To be perfectly honest, the guy from the first story sounds desperate; that usually doesn't attract women.


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14 Aug 2007, 4:11 pm

It works if your profile pics are attractive, and you portray yourself as a fun loving and interesting person.









Needless to say I've had no success with online dating.



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14 Aug 2007, 5:01 pm

RainSong wrote:
To be perfectly honest, the guy from the first story sounds desperate; that usually doesn't attract women.



can you blame him ?

he's 38 and single so it 's natural to be desperate . Men are not gods you know.



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14 Aug 2007, 5:14 pm

LePetitPrince wrote:
RainSong wrote:
To be perfectly honest, the guy from the first story sounds desperate; that usually doesn't attract women.



can you blame him ?

he's 38 and single so it 's natural to be desperate . Men are not gods you know.

Coming across as if you're desperate for just any girl who'll have you doesn't work though. I doubt many women are going to want to be just 'the only one that would have them.'



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14 Aug 2007, 5:23 pm

^^ I am talking about him , you are talking about me instead .



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14 Aug 2007, 5:36 pm

LePetitPrince wrote:
RainSong wrote:
To be perfectly honest, the guy from the first story sounds desperate; that usually doesn't attract women.



can you blame him ?

he's 38 and single so it 's natural to be desperate . Men are not gods you know.


I don't blame him for wanting companionship or a relationship. However, look at it from a different perspective - if you're on one of these sites, you have thousands of people to look through. He sends off a lot of wrong vibes; he'll move without hesitation, he wants people to call his answering machine - and sure he says it's just to make sure the women are real, but how does anyone actually know that? ID block can be gotten around these days anyway -, he's offering a reward to someone who sets him up on a date. If a woman was to respond favorably and then decided that she wasn't interested, how easily do you think he'd let her go? It's natural to be wary.


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14 Aug 2007, 5:37 pm

LePetitPrince wrote:
^^ I am talking about him , you are talking about me instead .

I'm talking about anyone who's desperate.



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14 Aug 2007, 5:40 pm

I know this guy is desperate and with reasons (i can relate...). The thing is that if you put an ad on a dating site, and then you begin to modify it constantly to vent the frustrations you had with some encounters, it will never work. And you're telling everyone that you are making A LOT of encounters which means you're there for the quantity, not the quality ;)

Justly that article is talking about what kind of poeple you find there... I bet girls are over cautious and wait before answering to a guy. They are probably looking at your ad for months before. They want to be sure that you don't mofify your ad just to fit thier's just prior to send her a mail (a lot of guys does this). So acting like he did, it is natural that girls don't answer him, how could they be sure this guy is honest ?



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14 Aug 2007, 5:51 pm

Anyways I don't understand why ppl use these sites , chances of success seem to be very slim .