I have been posting here for almost twelve years and have amassed over 11k posts about hundreds of subjects and vanishingly few of my posts are about on-line dating and I somehow did all of this to shill not just for a specific site but for on-line dating in general? Really?
Millions of people
Educated, healthy, fit, well-traveled, makes a good living, has an active social life and hobbies.
What is your definition? You are the one who made the claim that successful people don’t on-line date. For the third time, how do you define “successful” in the context?
I’m happy for you. I’m not sure why you feel the need to pull rank on an anonymous message board. Relax. I’m not attacking you (and I’m very sorry if somehow it’s coming across that way).
This is a very sensitive topic for you. I’m asking questions. Like I said, I’m not attacking you or trying to snark you. I apologize if it is coming across that way.
But what kept them from meeting said person? They just gave up and said, “I’m going to use online dating.” And this is every single person that uses online dating?
It depends. My business (I’m a photographer) is largely referral-based. So I see many at their friends or family weddings, and I see some as well for baby shoots, family shoots, things like that.
I honestly have no idea. All the couples I still see are still married.
Because it’s a normal way to meet people these days, especially being busy professionals.
Not that I know of. The last on-line wedding couple I shot in October was a nurse and a doctor, both of whom were quite successful and beautiful/handsome. Like I said before, I met my wife online, and there was nothing I noted as being dishonest in her profile. I met three other women at the same time besides her, and they were equally accurate in their profiles.
Why sure it is! Just like women who wear pants never wear skirts, are butch lesbians, and never shave their legs. And anyone who denies this fundamental truth is a shill for Chic jeans.
Great. I easily meet that definition. So do some of my friends and many of the women that I have met on-line. I don’t need to. It’s just that it’s convenient. I have also dated women that I have met in real life but mostly I have met them on-line.
I have a very good friend who owns an engineering consulting company that brings in millions of dollars a year in revenue. He owns a very nice house in the Portland, Oregon suburbs. He just became engaged to a vice president of a Fortune 500 company. They met on eHarmony.
(And I don’t take it that you’re attacking me and I am not upset, just bemused.)
I’m surprised so many people (maybe it just seems like so many, perhaps it’s that the ones who don’t like it are very vocal about it) on here dislike online dating. I lived in a very rural area and liked meeting different kinds of people, but even if I lived in a city I think it could be a useful tool. It worked for me; I met my husband on an online dating site Most of us think nothing of shopping, paying bills, visiting with friends online, why not dating? Sure not all the dates I went on were wonderful, but none were any worse than if I had met someone in person and went out.
it’s really mostly just three people, and all three of them are kind of bad at social interaction via the net. one can’t voice an opinion on the subject without degrading everyone who participates, one can’t reply without being insufferable and hateful to anything they even remotely disagree with, and one is completely unable at understanding what people say or why they say it.
all three are missing the *painful *irony that they joined an online social group to discuss their ridiculously malformed and overzealous opinions against online social groups…
they participate in an online social group to declare the pointlessness and emptiness of online socializing.
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there are 35 million people on match/eharmony alone.
17% of couples that were married in the last three years met on an online dating service. (Chadwick Martin Bailey Study - April 2010)
Online Dating is the third most popular way for singles to meet, behind school/work and friend/family member. ( Chadwick Martin Bailey and Match.com Study - April 2010)
there are more than 280,000 marriages a year as a direct result of people meeting on an online dating service (Online Dating Magazine - January 2011).
20 % of all current committed relationships are two people who met each other online. (from Reuters, Herald News, PC World, Washington Post.)
haters and failures gon’ hate–but online dating is nothing more than just another place people can go to meet other people.
it’s crazy–but it seems like this interwebz thing might be a uniquely efficient tool for connecting people.
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smart people can meet online and interact successfully.
quilters can meet online and share ideas and it’s great.
doberman owners can meet online and connect in meaningful ways–maybe even have doggie play dates.
SINGLE people? GOD, no. if they meet online it will be terrible, probably. logic!
hey, i tried it. i wasn’t successful. clearly the system is fucking stupid and simply terrible for everyone. it can’t POSSIBLY be me.
My experience is that the same guys (in Utah) are on all the sites and have been for years. Plus, there is a heavy percentage of Mormons, which cuts down the percentage of men who would interest me. I’ve had mostly disappointing experiences since I started looking online 10 years ago. Sigh I do fall into a small niche, though, being a spiritual, vegan, non-smoking, non-drinking female of a certain age who is into geology, music, writing, reading, and owns/rides her own Suzuki motorcycle. I’m turned off by “bikers” and spiritual types are turned off by a woman who rides. Hoping “The Universe” will send the perfect guy in my direction … please … :o)
Hey, I’m not saying that online dating is a bad idea in general. I know that it has been successful for many people. I’m just saying it didn’t work very well for me. Women didn’t respond to any of my emails.
I’m married now, so thank goodness I don’t have to be concerned about that any more.
Most of us think nothing of shopping, paying bills, visiting with friends online, why not dating? Sure not all the dates I went on were wonderful, but none were any worse than if I had met someone in person and went out.