:smt043 Very, very true!! I saw this article on msn.com yesterday, speaking of online dating: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35338085/ns/technology_and_science-love_in_the_digital_age/?GT1=43001 Good read! :smt023
Use skype I´ve met a few people I got to know via Internet, out of different reasons, not only because of friendships. My experience was that many are active in that scene to be someone else as in their reality,what is nothing wrong in my opinion, and others that are really interested to use it to meet people in person. I´ve never made a bad experience, for sure sometimes they are very different than you imagined, but you know- everyone has its own charme. I guess it´s important to use the Internet as an Intro, if you are really interested in someone - talk to him/her as soon as possible by phone and if you still feel comfortable, meet personal - to have the chance to get a "real" impression, otherwise you are following your own phantasy, how someone could be, and the disappointment is unavoidably.
OMG! I was just communicating w a dude from a dating site Im on... after a while, he asked me to IM him... His handle had DOM in it.. so I got a bit suspicious.. were well, I was correct - he fastly revealed that site and demanded I call him "papi" (no, he was not hispanic) among other things... It was acctually very amusing (and no, I NOT communicating w the dude - I blocked him). So I guess that brings up the rules, stay anonymous until you are comfortable.
It was acctually very amusing to tell you the truth.. and I havent told even half of what was revealed. OMG! Dude was whack.
Actually look at the picture. My manicurist was telling me about the guy she's dating today. They met on match.com and he sent her a photo, which for some stupid reason she didn't really take a good look at, apparently they had talked on the phone pretty extensively prior to exchanging photos and she just really liked him. So they arranged for him to come to her house for dinner one night, she opens the door takes one look at him, bursts into tears and asks him to leave... I shit you not! The best part is after that reception, he called her the next morning and asked to take her to breakfast, and they've been dating ever since. This despite the fact that she doesn't find him attractive at all, he lives 4 1/2 hours away, and she's so embarrassed to be seen with him that she won't introduce him to anyone she knows. Sometimes people really confuse me.
Oh and it gets worse. She proceeded to tell me that she put his picture as her desktop on her computer to 'desensitize' herself from reacting adversely to looking at him. She showed me his pic and he's overweight by probably 60 pounds, but so is she. Yet she thinks she's too good for him? WTF? She dates him because "he's got a great heart even though everything else is crap". Poor guy has to have some idea since they've been dating for around 6 months now and she won't let him meet any of her friends. He's way nicer than me, that's all I can say.
That is so awful - the guy deserves so much better.... I just dont get that some people have one rule/idea for themselves and a completely different for everyone else.
Oh I so agree FG. That's like people who are seriously overweight, and I'm not talking 10 pounds I'm talking like one Big Mac and a couple of M&Ms away from HOLY SHIT fat, who then insist that they only date 'thin' people. Or people who don't workout at all being critical of people who do. I find people who do double standards to be really irritating.
Wow you have to admire his courage to go back and ask her out after their first meeting. He must be a good guy inside.
