Online Dating

ballsymchugh

oompaloompa wrote: »

Dexter is a nice name....

give him a surname too, not enough dogs have surnames these days. not morgan though. otherwise people will end up in black bags at the bottom of the sea.

oompaloompa

Dexter Zuroph Oompaloompa??

too much like stalking? why am I single?

zuroph

ballsymchugh wrote: »

give him a surname too, not enough dogs have surnames these days. not morgan though. otherwise people will end up in black bags at the bottom of the sea.

isnt his surname my surname? thats how the vet always works it anyway. I plan to try get him the vote next.

So I set up on POF, after earlier discussions on here :pac: Site seems a disaster to make your way around. more locals on it than OKc though...

oompaloompa

Dublin is well represented on POF for sure. It's not bad for a free site though.

zuroph

on OKc, I did a narrowing search on active profiles in the last month in my area, got 7 people. And I knew 3 of them. impossible to work with!

Captain Havoc

You'll get used to it. I've tried to spark up a couple of chats but nothing.

oompaloompa

small town? what's PoF like for smaller cities/towns then?

I sometimes take a look at guys from my hometown and I'm shocked how many are using the interweb...

busyliving

Is this thread mainly men discussing online dating or women and men?

I know its in the TGC, but I've seen men post in TLL

oompaloompa

I'm a woman.....all are welcome.....

Captain Havoc

oompaloompa wrote: »

small town? what's PoF like for smaller cities/towns then?

I sometimes take a look at guys from my hometown and I'm shocked how many are using the interweb...

Not great, you end up seeing the same faces all the time. When I was living in Dublin it was much easier and I actually got dates regularly enough off it but since I've moved down here, I think I've met three in the last three years off it.

jenny111111

busyliving wrote: »

Is this thread mainly men discussing online dating or women and men?

I know its in the TGC, but I've seen men post in TLL

a quick read on the last page or two would have shown you it's fairly equal. The boy's don't seem to mind us creeping in

zuroph

oompaloompa wrote: »

small town?

Limerick City!

oompaloompa

Captain Havoc wrote: »

Not great, you end up seeing the same faces all the time. When I was living in Dublin it was much easier and I actually got dates regularly enough off it but since I've moved down here, I think I've met three in the last three years off it.

Kilkenny is a good city to go out in....surely you could lure a Dub down to you?

I get so many mails that it wouldn't be practical to me to reply to all of them. Only been on a few dates, maybe I'm too choosy....

zuroph

oompaloompa wrote: »

I get so many mails that it wouldn't be practical to me to reply to all of them. Only been on a few dates, maybe I'm too choosy....

thinly veiled brag

oompaloompa

haha I'll brag when I can....mind you, they're mostly married, pervy or their first language is English textspeak :rolleyes:

I'd prefer one quality mail

darklighter

jenny111111 wrote: »

a quick read on the last page or two would have shown you it's fairly equal. The boy's don't seem to mind us creeping in

any and all help from the ladies is greatly appreciated

jenny111111

oompaloompa wrote: »

haha I'll brag when I can....mind you, they're mostly married, pervy or their first language is English textspeak :rolleyes:

I'd prefer one quality mail

+1 on this, but I like them short too, sometimes they pick through your whole profile and I feel like I've been dissected

zuroph

jenny111111 wrote: »

+1 on this, but I like them short too, sometimes they pick through your whole profile and I feel like I've been dissected

I'd usually start reasonably short but with a genuine message, and try open a discussion of some sort, but once or twice girls have gotten back to me much later saying that they were getting a lot of messages and forgot to reply. That's hard to work against, so I'd say some guys come across a bit over eager regularily messaging, trying to keep ahead of that. Its a tricky balancing act!

oompaloompa

From a female perspective, I just can't be bothered replying to a mail that just says 'hey'. On the other hand, I agree with Jenny...quoting my profile irks me a little. It's not a LC English Lit question....

Something genuine appeals to me...

Captain Havoc

oompaloompa wrote: »

Kilkenny is a good city to go out in....surely you could lure a Dub down to you?

I get so many mails that it wouldn't be practical to me to reply to all of them. Only been on a few dates, maybe I'm too choosy....

Ha, no chance, I've moved back in with the aulds to help them and my house is rented out. Could go the other way though.

uglyjohn

darklighter wrote: »

any and all help from the ladies is greatly appreciated

totally agree with this, all the female input has been great.

jenny111111

zuroph wrote: »

I'd usually start reasonably short but with a genuine message, and try open a discussion of some sort, but once or twice girls have gotten back to me much later saying that they were getting a lot of messages and forgot to reply. That's hard to work against, so I'd say some guys come across a bit over eager regularily messaging, trying to keep ahead of that. Its a tricky balancing act!

Yeah true, I do feel bad for the guys tbh. I probably replied to 1 in 20 mails, girls can afford to pick and choose to be honest and I guess you just have to be lucky, different strokes for different folks and all that

oompaloompa

Captain Havoc wrote: »

Ha, no chance, I've moved back in with the aulds to help them and my house is rented out. Could go the other way though.

Well tbh, initially it's more likely that you'd have to venture to Dublin or wherever, but who knows.... do you think Kilkenny has the one for you? Maybe broadening your search will help

jenny111111

darklighter wrote: »

any and all help from the ladies is greatly appreciated

Ask and I shall tell....not exactly a internet guru though, I've been out with a total of one person and I've given up :pac:

Captain Havoc

oompaloompa wrote: »

Well tbh, initially it's more likely that you'd have to venture to Dublin or wherever, but who knows.... do you think Kilkenny has the one for you? Maybe broadening your search will help

Well, Dublin is only an hour from work.

oompaloompa

Sorted so! Broaden the search.

I tend to think that you'll find someone when you're not looking, so I'm not sure how that colours my view of internet dating.

In saying that, I see nothing wrong with exploring all avenues....you might pick up some new friends...

darklighter

jenny111111 wrote: »

Ask and I shall tell....not exactly a internet guru though, I've been out with a total of one person and I've given up :pac:

We could be here for a while if I start asking Questions

It has been conclusively proven I am useless with women

busyliving

Online dating has always been something that has intrigued me...

What are the age profiles of online daters? Is there many people between the ages of 18-25?

I know a few people who have used online dating...but they are all over 28...

Its something I'd like to try one day...

jenny111111

darklighter wrote: »

We could be here for a while if I start asking Questions

It has been conclusively proven I am useless with women

The blind leading the blind, yay

jenny111111

busyliving wrote: »

Online dating has always been something that has intrigued me...

What are the age profiles of online daters? Is there many people between the ages of 18-25?

I know a few people who have used online dating...but they are all over 28...

Its something I'd like to try one day...

I fall smack bang in the middle of that age bracket, I joined up on a whim one day and I was completely shocked with the amount in that bracket, and there seems to be a huge number of 18-19 year olds.

It's probably down to younger people being more into social media