Met my wife in the “out of topic discussion” forum of a popular gaming site. We’ve been married for over five years with a couple years of shackin’ up before that. Since we’d both posted for a couple years before showing any interest in one another, I think we had a pretty good feel for what the other person was like.
I met my wife on Omegle.com
Imagine that! The site is pretty much considered a trolling cesspool.
If anyone is unfamiliar with it, you basically hit “next” and talk to a random person who is queued up. You have no idea who they are. Sex, location, age, etc. Most of the time, you’ll get a dude that is waving his dick around, but I actually met my wife on there 3 1/2 years ago! We just got married on May 11th.
She lives in Canada and we are in the process of immigrating her here. 
We often joke that none of this would have happened if someone had a fluke power outage, or one of us decided after the first message to hit “next”. We would have never known each other. Pretty cool, IMO.
I tend to agree, but that’s probably just because I’ve been married so long - my days of looking for romance predate the Internet. 
Mind you, there were always newspaper ads and the like, but they were nowhere near as ubiquitously popular as online dating, and did not feature the sort of socialization that online dating has.
The reason I agree is this: I find the notion of in effect advertising for a mate somewhat alienating. No doubt it is preferable to the alienation of the alternative (that is, not finding anyone), but it isn’t really ideal in my mind. Though no doubt if somehow I found myself alone again, I’d probably do it nonetheless.
To be honest, I have tried it myself a few times. I haven’t had any luck but I don’t think I’ve put all that much effort into it either.
Well, THAT clears something up.
The news media here have loudly been trumpeting “35 percent of ALL MARRIAGES began online!” I was considering starting a thread asking how that could be possible, since many marriages entirely predate the existence of the Internet. But yeah, that little conveniently-left-out “since 2005” nugget certainly makes that number sound more plausible.
Thanks for saving me from starting an unnecessary thread!
Well, I met my ex-husband online on a site that was advertised as a dating site in Japan but as a friend site in America. And it didn’t end well at all. So I guess we really beat the odds that were in favor of us making it.