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The Online Dating Thread 3..**READ 1ST POST Oct 2012**

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    #692
    dub5
    Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭dub5


    Samich wrote: »
    No no. Sure they broke up and she's single now :P

    Things weren't going well with him.


    Is she still on POF?

    I dont think that it would be a good idea anyway getting into a relationship with someone, just after they have come out of one.

    And sure if it is meant to be, then, who knows, maybe in a few months, things might change. She might just want to have a bit of "single" fun for a while


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    #693
    mood
    Registered Users Posts: 4,264 ✭✭✭mood


    Samich wrote: »
    No no. Sure they broke up and she's single now :P

    Things weren't going well with him.

    Do you honestly think it's ok for someone in a relationship to be on a dating site? If it happen you did meet her and you started going out how could you ever trust her?

    As I said you had a lucky excape.


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    #694
    Hardonraging
    Registered Users Posts: 2,641 ✭✭✭Hardonraging


    Larianne wrote: »
    I want to see if she had a happy ending.)


    She went for a date with the breffmeister .. he's like my hero !! im sure she got a happy ending ..


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    #695
    Herrick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 903 ✭✭✭Herrick


    Tagged masquerades as a social networking site, but it's a dating site. I've heard of a few that try to pull the "but its a social networking site" when they've been caught on it. What kinda person joins a dating site if their in a relationship?

    I've seen one or two on Tagged also that are in relationships but have told me their "not looking for anything" Take down the bloody profile then.

    Even if they have no intention of cheating being on it for the attention is still fierce bad form. If I found out a gf of mine was up on a site and I was certain it was simply for an ego boost and they wouldn't cheat physically, I'd still dump her arse. It's serious cheek and disrespect.

    Tbh Samich I think you dodged a bullet. Imagine you started going out with her, I bet she'd be telling the next fella things weren't going well with you either.


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    #696
    dub5
    Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭dub5


    Anyone hear of "Badoo". App on phone. Just downloaded it...dont know how good it is yet, but cant be any worse than the other on line dating sites


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    #697
    Larianne
    Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    dub5 wrote: »
    Anyone hear of "Badoo". App on phone. Just downloaded it...dont know how good it is yet, but cant be any worse than the other on line dating sites

    That's the one where the app tells you how near you are to someone on the site, as in you're in a pub - 'X is 10metres near you'. :eek:


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    #698
    Samich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    Ye'r completely misinterpreting things.

    She joined tagged years ago, met her bf on it and never deleted. She was only 15 when she joined it.

    We were chatting as friends and then things got more friendly.

    I did not dodge a bullet anyways :P


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    #699
    Samich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    dub5 wrote: »
    Anyone hear of "Badoo". App on phone. Just downloaded it...dont know how good it is yet, but cant be any worse than the other on line dating sites

    Was on it, full of foreigners who have Ireland down as their location for some weird reason. Waste of time imo.


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    #700
    mood
    Registered Users Posts: 4,264 ✭✭✭mood


    Samich wrote: »
    Ye'r completely misinterpreting things.

    She joined tagged years ago, met her bf on it and never deleted. She was only 15 when she joined it.

    We were chatting as friends and then things got more friendly.

    I did not dodge a bullet anyways :P

    But she should have stopped using it when in a relationship as it is basically a dating site. Would you be happy with her being on it and chatting and getting friendly with other guys if you had started going out?


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    #701
    Samich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    mood wrote: »
    But she should have stopped using it when in a relationship as it is basically a dating site. Would you be happy with her being on it and chatting and getting friendly with other guys if you had started going out?

    It's largely a social networking site imo.

    The slogan is something like "chat with friends, make new ones"

    I know the girl pretty well enough to know that I was the one who missed out. :P


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    #702
    dub5
    Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭dub5


    Larianne wrote: »
    That's the one where the app tells you how near you are to someone on the site, as in you're in a pub - 'X is 10metres near you'. :eek:

    Yeh it tells you who is near you, but I doubt it is accurate, unless there are alot of single men in my area.
    Samich wrote: »
    Was on it, full of foreigners who have Ireland down as their location for some weird reason. Waste of time imo.

    Ah sure they are all a waste of time really


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    #703
    mood
    Registered Users Posts: 4,264 ✭✭✭mood


    Samich wrote: »
    It's largely a social networking site imo.

    The slogan is something like "chat with friends, make new ones"

    I know the girl pretty well enough to know that I was the one who missed out. :P

    Trust me you don't 'know' someone until you meet them in person.


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    #704
    dub5
    Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭dub5


    mood wrote: »
    Trust me you don't 'know' someone until you meet them in person.

    Completely agree with you on this. You can think and get on really well with someone on line. We can all type what we want people to read and portray an image of ourselves to match with someone else. But you dont really get to know people on the net.


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    #705
    sharper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,216 ✭✭✭sharper


    mood wrote: »
    Trust me you don't 'know' someone until you meet them in person.

    Agreed! I like chatting with people probably more than most but online you're only seeing what people want you to see. For some it's entirely subconscious, others know precisely what they're doing.

    Some do use "dating" sites to cultivate friendships so it's not an immediate red flag but it's pretty sketchy if their relationship is in trouble. They're basically there to evaluate whether they need to bother working with what they have or get someone new.

    Samich: I really don't think you should feel like you've missed out on anything. Indeed it seems a bit like you've been setup into thinking that way by being given a narrow and vague window of "opportunity" which was then arbitrarily removed. She got bored with her boyfriend, she got bored with you before something even got started and she'll probably get bored of the next guy too. There are people out there that know exactly how to present themselves to most appeal to others, it's purely an image they create and there's nothing beneath the surface.


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    #706
    Samich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    [QUOTE=sharper;79231528]She got bored with her boyfriend, she got bored with you before something even got started and she'll probably get bored of the next guy too. There are people out there that know exactly how to present themselves to most appeal to others, it's purely an image they create and there's nothing beneath the surface.[/QUOTE]

    Only took 4 years I guess.

    Anyways say no more, obviously took it up wrong :)


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    #707
    dub5
    Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭dub5


    Samich wrote: »
    Only took 4 years I guess.

    Anyways say no more, obviously took it up wrong :)

    Back on the saddle again:D


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    #708
    dub5
    Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭dub5


    2 messages, 39 profile views within about 30 mins on "Badoo". Ah this might keep me entertained for a bit;)


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    #709
    wobblyknees
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭wobblyknees


    Ok this is getting ridiculous, I am actually concerned I might use the wrong name during one of these conversations on POF/via text. haha. I'd just like to point out that I am in no way leading anyone on, I have just suddenly found that members of the opposite sex seem to want to talk to me, meet up, and/or give me their number. It's a little strange but I'm not complaining. Now all I have to do is to decide to actually meet up with one of them. Haha.


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    #710
    Samich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    dub5 wrote: »
    Back on the saddle again:D

    Meh :P Actually got strong interest from 3 girls on pof, which for me is incredible. They even said I was hot, which is weird. But just not feeling it.

    Should also have added that originally when we were just chatting as friends I noticed she was acting funny and said she didn't want to string me along, or something like that before telling me she liked me and then again she said she didn't want to string me along when I asked her had she gone off me, she said she was "confused but doesn't want to string me along"...


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    #711
    Daveysil15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    dub5 wrote: »
    2 messages, 39 profile views within about 30 mins on "Badoo". Ah this might keep me entertained for a bit;)

    It must be great to be a woman!


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    #712
    dub5
    Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭dub5


    Daveysil15 wrote: »
    dub5 wrote: »
    2 messages, 39 profile views within about 30 mins on "Badoo". Ah this might keep me entertained for a bit;)

    It must be great to be a woman!

    Oh sure it's only brilliant being a woman!!!


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    #713
    wobblyknees
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭wobblyknees


    dub5 wrote: »
    Oh sure it's only brilliant being a woman!!!

    Except when you HAVE to find a toilet.

    :D


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    #714
    dub5
    Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭dub5


    wobblyknees wrote: »
    Except when you HAVE to find a toilet.

    :D

    I am toilet trained:D


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    #715
    Daveysil15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    Dating sites are great for women. For men its a lottery. You just might get picked.


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    #716
    dub5
    Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭dub5


    Daveysil15 wrote: »
    Dating sites are great for women. For men its a lottery. You just might get picked.

    I beg to differ. Dating sites are not great for women and I don't know how you can even come up with that. We face the same issues as men on line.


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    #717
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    I think what he means is the ratio of men to women on the sites is so skewed that it's hard to get a man's profile to be noticed due to the sheer numbers of guys on the sites compared to women....Literally thousands of guys to a few hundred women....


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    #718
    Daveysil15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    dub5 wrote: »
    I beg to differ. Dating sites are not great for women and I don't know how you can even come up with that. We face the same issues as men on line.

    I disagree. For starters men far out-number the women on these sites, so the women have more options. Men need to send out lots of emials in a hope to get a reply. Women can just sit back and pick out the best ones.


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    #719
    MarkyTheLips
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭MarkyTheLips


    Samich wrote: »
    The site was tagged, so a social networking site too, and she actually met her bf of 4 years on it anyways :P But yeah, that's it, just thought I'd tell the story when someone above said a girl had the whole package :)

    You know I didn't mean "package" package... Right? :D basically she ticks my boxes for replying to, we can only see after that :)


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    #720
    MyPeopleDrankTheSoup
    Registered Users Posts: 2,730 ✭✭✭MyPeopleDrankTheSoup


    but real life still way better for men. it's expected of the guy to approach women, not expected of the woman. she has to wait to be approached! i'd hate that, not being in control


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    #721
    dub5
    Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭dub5


    Daveysil15 wrote: »
    dub5 wrote: »
    I beg to differ. Dating sites are not great for women and I don't know how you can even come up with that. We face the same issues as men on line.

    I disagree. For starters men far out-number the women on these sites, so the women have more options. Men need to send out lots of emials in a hope to get a reply. Women can just sit back and pick out the best ones.

    Ah would you stop!!! You honestly think us women just sit back and pick out the best ones. Jaysus, if only. We too send lots of mails in a hope of a reply. Why would we not have the same opinion that you guys are just picking the best looking girls and hopefully we might connect with someone.

    I dont know what the exact ratios are on line for men and women but any of the singles nights I have been to it has been 50:50.


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