# Would you have used a dating website if they existed back then? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 2, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-used-a-dating-website-if-they-existed-back-then/721469 "2015-06-02T19:15:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-used-a-dating-website-if-they-existed-back-then/721469/21 "2015-06-04T20:37:28Z")
> [@SirRay](#): > > Was this party during college or after graduation? Cause (and more in response to Malthus’s post than yours), I received engineering degrees at two different colleges (Bachelors and Masters), and the ratio of men to women in those schools made the newspaper ad ratios look good. I even worked in the school’s libraries as a student, and they sure weren’t wild beer-fest parties (some of the middle-aged full-time lady employees would bring in fresh-baked cookies now and then :p). > “Cindy, the prettiest woman in robotics class”; well, yeah, the only woman in robotics class… > > For the heck of it, I just checked Craigslist, and it seems very few ‘personal’ listings use the old-school “SWF”-type abbreviations (the most common abbreviation used is…BBW :eek:). I also noticed that the number of ‘W4W’ ads in my region nearly matches that of ‘W4M’, which I had first noted several years back. Now I remember why I don’t bother with Craigslist…:smack: It was a few year after graduation. We worked for different NYC library systems, but it was a birthday party for a mutual friend. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-have-used-a-dating-website-if-they-existed-back-then/721469.md?page=1)