Well, despite a long period of trying and not finding anything on a number of dating sites, and skepticism that online dating was effective at all…I’m now happily in a relationship that started out with Match.com
I also count myself ridiculously lucky there, given the “success” rate I’ve read about here and other places. The first girl I actually conversed with on Match.com (rather than just sending an email into the ether) is the one I am with now. She’s cute, intelligent, and has a totally hot geeky streak that wouldn’t have been apparent without an online dating profile.
So yeah, mark me down for being in favor of online dating now. I’d encourage any guys out there to give a real shot, because I definitely don’t regret the time and effort spent. I don’t consider myself very highly skilled relationship-wise or socially, and if I managed to find a great person though it, anyone can.
I’m still in that early-relationship high right now, but enjoying it while it lasts.
I married the most wonderful man I ever met, whom I met through Yahoo! personals over three years ago. We actually got off to a little bit of a rocky start due to mixed signals about the seriousness of our relationship, as documented here in this thread, but we got it right a couple of months later and are very happy now. (If you read that thread, he was just REALLY afraid of getting into a serious relationship again - he had been hurt pretty badly in the past, and he knew we were great together. He just needed time to accept losing control of his heart.)
I spent 8 years with a wonderful guy that I met online. This was back in 1999 and I don’t even remember the name of the site but I know it went out of business soon after.
We broke up recently but he’s still my best friend and most of our 8 years together were wonderful.
Actually, he was the only person on the site who was a perfect match for me (and me for him) based on the site’s opinion. It was kind of freaky how much we had in common.
Even if the relationship doesn’t work out, it can be a great way to make a great friend.
I’d like to congratulate Autolycus as quite possibly the only guy in history to put the moves on a girl in an MMO and have it actually go somewhere. That’s gotta take cough mad skillz.
Not only did we meet in a MMO, but she was Japanese and married. It’s a long, painful, funny, dramatic, bittersweet story that I’ll probably share in a seperate thread now that I’ve tantalized you all.
I’ve met two girls through dating sites, one turned into a long-term girlfriend and the other one a friend-with-benefits for a longer period. Might be time to bait the hook and toss it out there again, in fact. Although I was getting the impression that it’s all about Facebook and that kind of stuff these days.
My fiancé and I met through and ad I posted on Craig’s List although I was getting a fair number of dates through OkCupid and Plenty-of-fish.
I guess I wanted to see what the free sites would bring me before I ponied up bux for the Match/eHarmony kinds.
On second thought, I guess if I were looking for a sugar momma, maybe I should frequent the sites that charge a lot of money to join. My fiancé is wonderful, funny, sexy, intelligent, and cute-as-a-button. She’s not loaded, though.
the divemaster and i met though yahoo personals (i’m ashamed to say i can’t recall the exact date we met up for our first date. it was mid-late august of 02, i think).
that will soon be six? years ago (i’m terrible with dates). he grew up on the north side of indy and in carmel, and i moved to the far north side of indy in the mid 70s.
turns out, he lived just three doors down from my cousins and played with them when they were all children.
we’re another pair who are freaky we have so much in common. and we did some cross-fertilization too; i learned to scuba dive and he enjoys my long-time hobby of community theater. while i’ve yet to get him up on stage (came close, once), he’s built sets and loaned props to a number of productions. problem is, he’s a great mimic and sings quite well. he just doesn’t think so.
I just celebrated two and a half years with the cute boy whose Friendster profile claimed he could dance. Turns out he wasn’t lying, despite the fact that my opener was “A white guy who can dance? Yeah. Right.”
Actually, all of my LT relationships (all three of them) were with guys I met online… I met the first one through a local BBS waaaaay back in 1995. Yep. I’m old school like that.
Actually, my first post was serious. I’d been active on afu for a while when a new poster showed up who went to the same college. We started chatting online a bit, met in person a week later, and woke up together (minus out virginities) about two weeks after that. Unfortunately the romance didn’t last but we always remained good friends.
That’s gotta take cough mad skillz.