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magneticimpulse wrote: »I had the same scenario. Only for the 3rd date he did cook me dinner. Since I was at his and 1 hour drive away I obviously had to sleep at his. I slept in the spare room....so I guess he decided it wouldnt work out after that....but it didnt feel right considering he told me he was cooking dinner for another girl the next night.
You win some, you lose some (maybe you have to lose alot to win one haha).
I wonder how many people have stuck with it?? Seems like little success rate from the stories. Lots of people calling it a day...ive still no intention to give it a go for a long time.
I find that you can really only give the sites about a month (max) at a time. After that, all you are seeing is people who youve messaged and they haven't responded (fair enough, means they're not interested) or people that you are just not attracted to.
Then if you give it a break for a few weeks/ months to recharge the batteries (and reset the rejection counter back to 0 :pac:) and go back again i tend to find i have a lot more patience for it. But I will still only hang around for a month or so before skedaddling off again.
Joined Match last week, and have been getting a much higher rate of reply than on any of the other sites (even the paid section of ones like AnotherFriend) and what makes it even better, is there are all new faces too!! I find that POF, OKC and the others have a lot of crossover population. In fairness to match, i have not yet seen one girl that i recognised from other sites.
Did find an old classmate though!!
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well ive been drifting in and out of dating sites for the last year, met some nice people and not so nice people. with the jigs and the reels ive had pretty much bad luck on it, so have decided to call it a day..
so here's to real life dating..
it'll prob take alot longer to meet someone, but i think its the better option for me
i will still follow this thread, see how the rest of ye are getting on
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well ive been drifting in and out of dating sites for the last year, met some nice people and not so nice people. with the jigs and the reels ive had pretty much bad luck on it, so have decided to call it a day..
so here's to real life dating..
it'll prob take alot longer to meet someone, but i think its the better option for me
i will still follow this thread, see how the rest of ye are getting on
As i said to a lady friend who first recommended it to me (it was her subtle way of saying NOT INTERESTED GC, NOT NOW, NOT EVER!!!:D), if i want to get ignored by women i find attractive i can do it for free in any pub i go into~!!
The 3D world of dating can be every bit as hard though.... I wouldn't totally kick it to the kerb Liz, just take a break.0 -
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As i said to a lady friend who first recommended it to me (it was her subtle way of saying NOT INTERESTED GC, NOT NOW, NOT EVER!!!:D), if i want to get ignored by women i find attractive i can do it for free in any pub i go into~!!
The 3D world of dating can be every bit as hard though.... I wouldn't totally kick it to the kerb Liz, just take a break.
i dunno, im still not convinced :rolleyes:
i think its the 'not knowing the person through another person' aspect of online dating that scares me the most.
im meeting guys off that & i don't know the first thing about them. in my experience, they don't be totally honest with me about their personal lives or their intentions as to what theyre looking for
maybe im old fashioned but from all of this ive come to realise that id rather meet someone, where people know of him or through mutual hobbies etc where i have a sense of what the guy is like first0 -
i dunno, im still not convinced :rolleyes:
i think its the 'not knowing the person through another person' aspect of online dating that scares me the most.
im meeting guys off that & i don't know the first thing about them. in my experience, they don't be totally honest with me about their personal lives or their intentions as to what theyre looking for
maybe im old fashioned but from all of this ive come to realise that id rather meet someone, where people know of him or through mutual hobbies etc where i have a sense of what the guy is like first
That's fair enough, and it is a risk that you take with meeting someone off a computer screen as opposed to meeting through a mutual friend. I mean, look at the majority of our parents, they will have met through work or through mutual friends.
Maybe there is a bit of a dependence on internet dating developing as a result of people using the internet and technology for so many other things. I'm sure there's many a dissertation or thesis been done on it!! 0 -
That's fair enough, and it is a risk that you take with meeting someone off a computer screen as opposed to meeting through a mutual friend. I mean, look at the majority of our parents, they will have met through work or through mutual friends.
Maybe there is a bit of a dependence on internet dating developing as a result of people using the internet and technology for so many other things. I'm sure there's many a dissertation or thesis been done on it!!
I agree with liz2. There is alot to be said about finding someone via your circle of friends/job/studies or other common interest. Online dating is more than a box of chocolates...you really dont know what your going to get.
As for dissertation/thesis about online dating...ive not quite done that. Ive certainly wasted time on here and online dating when I should be finishing a thesis about chemistry of the molecular kind and not the loving kind 0 -
magneticimpulse wrote: »I agree with liz2. There is alot to be said about finding someone via your circle of friends/job/studies or other common interest. Online dating is more than a box of chocolates...you really dont know what your going to get.
As for dissertation/thesis about online dating...ive not quite done that. Ive certainly wasted time on here and online dating when I should be finishing a thesis about chemistry of the molecular kind and not the loving kind
I'll tell ya what Magnetic, when you are finished the chemical one we can work on a chemistry one together!!
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maybe im old fashioned but from all of this ive come to realise that id rather meet someone, where people know of him or through mutual hobbies etc where i have a sense of what the guy is like first
They're all nice ways to meet people, but on the other hand I have a couple of friends who I like dearly as friends but would be very concerned if my sister were to date them.
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busyliving wrote: »Drunk POF'ing last night:(
Now to log on to see how much damage i did:o
i bet you got loads of replys from the intimate encounters!!!:D:D:D
some of them are very funny:D:D0 -
JamesBond2010 wrote: »i bet you got loads of replys from the intimate encounters!!!:D:D:D
some of them are very funny:D:D
hey the intimate encounter section on POF seems to be more serious than the dating section....(im being sacarstic...im still not going back to Online dating anytime soon).0 -
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i dunno, im still not convinced :rolleyes:
i think its the 'not knowing the person through another person' aspect of online dating that scares me the most.
im meeting guys off that & i don't know the first thing about them. in my experience, they don't be totally honest with me about their personal lives or their intentions as to what theyre looking for
maybe im old fashioned but from all of this ive come to realise that id rather meet someone, where people know of him or through mutual hobbies etc where i have a sense of what the guy is like first
Yeah I have the same feeling about it. It is one of the things that would worry me a bit, as people could be totally making up fake lives and it might take quite a while to find out. Or people could hide a lot of their real personality temporarily, but if you knew them through something else first you might already have a sense of them.
Mind you I haven't quite given up yet but I will probably take a break in a few weeks if I get nowhere.0 -
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How on earth do you get chatting to someone at work when a: you don't work together, b: you're in different teams, c: you've no reason to communicate for work issues in order to build on anything, d: they work in another building?
There are several girls at work that I fancy, however they're all in different departments that we never interact with for any reason. I'd occasionally see them in the canteen during lunch and that's about it. It's a pretty big company too so everything is fairly well spread out. Nights out with these other teams are not really possible either.
What's the answer there???
Try organise a company wide social night, hide your true intentions though 0 -
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Snow-Monkey wrote: »are you single again?
Aye, that I am lad.You never meet up with me.
In my defence.... *runs away*0 -
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I know I'm not supposed to post here about girlfriend stuff but....
I was out at a meeting this evening. There was a program about dinosaurs on BBC and she recorded it for me.
Online dating FTW.
Was this the girl you only met a few weeks back, or am I getting you mixed up with another boards user?0 -
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What's with the pretentious answer?0
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