Online dating

[Lincoln]

How pathetic is online dating for 20-30 year olds who still have a chance to pick up girls in public? Are they for losers who are too fat/ugly and socially awkward to find a mate in real life?

[lebomb]

How pathetic is online dating for 20-30 year olds who still have a chance to pick up girls in public? Are they for losers who are too fat/ugly and socially awkward to find a mate in real life?

Yes........you are correct. They made it for you. :p:

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

One of my best friends is dating a guy she met through a dating site who just turned 30 and is pretty much none of those things. She said there's still plenty of scary looking profiles that scream "serial killer" but there's plenty of people who are just doing the same thing people use Google and Amazon and the rest of the internet for: finding exactly what you're looking faster.

[CuckingFunt]

How pathetic is online dating for 20-30 year olds who still have a chance to pick up girls in public? Are they for losers who are too fat/ugly and socially awkward to find a mate in real life?

I'd say it's a hell of a lot less pathetic than worrying this much about how other folks are conducting their dating lives.

[leemajors]

One of my best friends is dating a guy she met through a dating site who just turned 30 and is pretty much none of those things. She said there's still plenty of scary looking profiles that scream "serial killer" but there's plenty of people who are just doing the same thing people use Google and Amazon and the rest of the internet for: finding exactly what you're looking faster.

Yup, I know plenty of people who are in happy relationships who met online.

[mrsmaalox]

I don't know why anyone would put restrctions on how they meet people. Meeting someone online is pathetic, but meeting someone at a bar is okay. People lie anywhere! I feel the same way about people who make rules like not dating anyone at work; if it's not against the policy, and you are smart about it, what's the big deal? At least you found someone with an actual job and you probably have something in common.

The only thing that is weird to me about the online matchmaking thing is that so many people say they do it because they "don't have time to date". Who wants to be with someone who doesn't have time for anything?

[Reck]

Who gives a shit?

Oh wait, apparently you do.

I say this thread didn't generate the responses you were looking for? :lol

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Well, I know meeting someone online had a stigma back when Al Gore invented it but I think it's pretty normal now. I guess it's a maturity thing

[The Reckoning]

computer literate people should be using the internet for porn - not to find actual sex. fucking losers.

[MannyIsGod]

:lol attempting to troll and falling flat on your face.
:lol gonna next start a thread saying I look like a monkey.

[DMC]

It's all the same tbh. Whether you meet at a meat market or a meat market website, you're meeting.

At least online you get to see someone's writing ability and what they REALLY look like. No one uses old or doctored photos. Also, no one online uses that sidways fat chick pose with the duck bill thing to hide the hawg jowls.

[Wild Cobra]

How pathetic is online dating for 20-30 year olds who still have a chance to pick up girls in public? Are they for losers who are too fat/ugly and socially awkward to find a mate in real life?
Not necessarily. It is a way to broaden ones search pattern.

I'd say it's a hell of a lot less pathetic than worrying this much about how other folks are conducting their dating lives.
No Shit.

Anyone who was here some years back, know that I shared an incident that since, I wish I hadn't. The internet bullies here just cannot stop having fun with it.

Anyway, there was one hookup I did have from MySpace that I didn't like. I met with the beautiful school teacher in Vancouver WA, just across the Columbia river from Portland OR where I live. We go to her house, but then, from what she says, her kids are in their bedrooms and she wants to do it in the living room. I'm not comfortable with this, I want to go to her bedroom at least. Anyway, I try to be nice and end up, leaving, never calling her again.

There are some strange people on the internet. You all think I'm strange, but I think more of you are rather than myself.

This incident was before the incident where people her accuse me of stalking. At least CF recalls this incident where I didn't think of what my actions might look like. I was trying to point out a potentially dangerous flaw in someone elses posting online, and scared the hell out of her. She posted enough information for anyone who knows how to search, to know exactly where she lived, and I bluntly pointed it out.

I still get called a stalker today, for my ignorance of what it appeared to be.

[Latarian Milton]

if you're 30yr old and still looking for your special one, you're pathetic no matter whether it's online or not tbh. however, it'd be a whole different story if you're a celibate like me

[Avante]

It doesn't matter at all how you meet someone. I once met a girl who had the wrong number, we ended up talking for a couple hours then setting up a date, we dated for about 6 months.

A loser is somebody thinking there is a right/wrong way to go about it. There isn't.