Beast Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 What are your thoughts on these sites? Me and my friend were kind of having a debate about it. He reckons it's for people who are very desperate but I think it's kinda like Facebook or Tagged in some ways, haha. Anyways, what do you guys think? Could you find true love or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Not as sad as people would have you believe, and commonly used. It is kind of a last resort measure, but you're more likely to meet someone compatible with you online than in real life if you're constantly looking around and feeling nothing for nobody. You can find true love anywhere. Do it in whatever way works for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReZourceman Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Not for desperate people even remotely. Slap your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted September 16, 2010 Author Share Posted September 16, 2010 Has anybody here used any dating sites? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergrunch Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 I don't really see a problem with them, so long as you ensure people aren't making up crap about themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chairdriver Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 I'm on Gaydar, but I've never met anyone off it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierce_LiNk Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Haha, Internet Romances? They never work. Plus, you meet some right fruitloops on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyboy-the-Dane Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 I've tried it, but there aren't many Danish girls using such sites, and the few there were were not really to my liking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raining_again Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Haha, Internet Romances? They never work. Plus, you meet some right fruitloops on there. Aye look what poor Ine landed herself with :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Has anybody here used any dating sites? I'm using one right now. That... is what this is, isn't it? I mean, sure the girls are short in supply... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierce_LiNk Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Aye look what poor Ine landed herself with :p Mwahaha. In all seriousness, there's certainly no harm in trying it. I've got a friend who recently got married after meeting her manfriend off Match.com. This idea of it being a last resort isn't entirely accurate. She was only 24 when she got married, so it's hardly like she was going to die an old and lonely woman. With a house of cats. Its a good alternative way of meeting people. Plus, it gives you the ability to meet people you would never ever meet in a pub or a bar if they're from an entirely different location to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 It seems to be becoming a done thing. I think it's kind of unnecessary if you're young and in a big city but that's just a matter of odds. I don't think I'd join one, I'm simply not a fan of the means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EEVILMURRAY Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 I considered joining one just to see what I was "compatible with". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platty Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 (edited) I'm all for it. One of my best mates met his now wife on a dating website and 5 years on with a baby they are still extremely happy. Edited September 17, 2010 by Platty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierce_LiNk Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 I considered joining one just to see what I was "compatible with". The WiiZapper? WiiSpeak? The N64 Expansion Pak? Ooo, what about speed-dating? I wanted to do it with a friend a few years back, but nothing ever came of it. Seemed like a laugh, although I don't think you'd get much long-term success from that, maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Most girls would be compatible with the rumble pack. I wanna try speed dating sometime, if it was going disastrously I could at least get out of there quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierce_LiNk Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Speed Dating is basically a real-life Time Trial. Against the opposite sex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Speed Dating is basically a real-life Time Trial. Against the opposite sex. Now this the kind of description Speed Dating needs to get the nerds onboard. One of the best things I've read on here today, hands down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Falcon Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 (edited) Given the odds of supposedly meeting an ideal partner are 1 in 285,000, anything to help along the way shouldn't be dismissed. But at the same time it has to be right for you. My friend tried an online dating site last year and has been with the guy she met for over a year now - turned out the guy lived just 2 streets away from her. But if she hadn't had joined, she might not ever have met the guy. She was telling me all about it and saying I should try it as what harm could it do. I didn't think it was right for me but I set up a profile anyway. The next day, I closed it. It just didn't feel like something I was ready to do - something I could go through with. Edited September 16, 2010 by Captain Falcon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diageo Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 I would never meet up with someone I met on the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowV7 Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 My aunt found someone on a dating site a while back now and ended up getting married to the guy last year. So they can't be all that bad. Guy is pretty nice as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergrunch Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 I'd hate speed dating - you'd never get past the small talk, and I'm terrible at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goafer Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Imagine how many doses of rohypnol you could administer before the first person started showing symptoms. Then it's just a case of sneaking around whilst they're all drowsy and changing all their sheets to "Like Goafer" and you have your pick of the bunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 They're definitely not something to be dismissed out of hand. I've met plenty of girls through them, some good, some bad. I don't personally see it as any different to meeting girls in a bar or any other random place. It's just an extra way of making that connection. The main issue tends to be people pre-conceptions that it isn't normal meeting people online. In my experience it tends to only be the socially inept that feel weird about it. At the end of the day if it doesn't work out then you've lost nothing by trying. If it does work out then who gives a fuck how you originally met? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoogleViper Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 I can see what he's saying with the desperate thing, but I think it's more of a last resort than desperation. Not that there's anything wrong with it. I'm not going to go into anything because we had this discussion recently. My problem with dating sites is that I'm not sure if they'd work. Because you look at what people have written on their profile and choose from that. But that's not how things work. Most couples don't have all of these things in common, and if they were on a dating site may not have gone with each other based on the profiles. It's hard to put down what makes a person on paper. And we don't know what person we want. That being said I do think it's great as a medium of meeting people. Given the odds of supposedly meeting an ideal partner are 1 in 285,000, anything to help along the way shouldn't be dismissed. Where are those odds from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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