Does online dating really work?

[smthomas]

There are millions of members worldwide and thousands more singles are signing up on a daily basis. But does this show that dating online really works?

I met my girlfriend on okcupid.com last year. We spent much time online. We chatted for a while before exchanging our cell numbers. We chose restaurant to meet and we spent a lovely few hours chatting, shopping, etc... Now, we meet occasionally to know each other very well. Our relationship is going very well and internet helped me to find out her.

What about you guys? What is your experience about internet dating? Share your experience about internet dating here.

[Broomer]

Can't speak for the US (or personally - I met my wife in a temple) however, a bud of mines' sister works in this sort of thing. Provided it's legit and not a sleaze site, then yeah it does.

How long it lasts though, that's the other question.

Ka.

[Paradox]

I think the major problem with online dating sites is that you have to fit a specific profile and you are automatically filtered if you don't fit into that ideal. That doesn't take into account that not everyone you end up having a relationship with in real life is an "ideal" match through random hobbies or physical attributes. Shit, I can only name a small handful of times where i've matched up with someone that well and they were both short lived relationships.

The other problem is that online dating sites (in the U.S. at least) are tremendously biased against Asian males in general.

[mrcfo]

I just cant differentiate between chats and online dating really, one is free and the other one isn't.

[Napoleon Chynamite]

Never done it. I like to examine and see the product up close and in real life before I decide to put forth any effort. One of the most important investments in life after all.

[deez nuts]

I don't know about these online dating sites where you have to pay only cause I've never tried it. The only two places where I have dated women online is on here and the other one is from playing wow. My brother is a hardcore video game fanatic so I decided to play a game he's been playing to spend some brotherly bonding time together. The game was kind of boring, I didn't know the difference between friend or foe because they all looked alike, started to cheat my ass off by spending real money to buy in game fake money and hired Chinese people to play my account thereby supporting China's economy. Then I got really bored and I started flirting with chicks. It drove my brother crazy because I wasn't hardcore enough hahaha. Through the game, I met a few chicks around my area and areas where I was flying to for conferences and interviews. Got the idea from a friend who would cheat on his wife by arranging to meet with women that he met on online dating sites in areas he was flying to on business.

As a guy you should employ as many ways to meet women as you can. I was thinking about doing a match.com or e-harmony.com since I moved to a new area and don't know anybody. But, that idea has been scratched. I mean it is convenient to talk to the hunniez without having to dress up, go out, break the ice, buy them drinks, get them drunk etc etc etc. As for success and failure rates like someone said it's pretty contingent on the individuals.

[BillHoo]

I've never had any real luck with online dating. I'd still say that going out and being active has been the most fruitful for me.

the problem with online is that it's the lazy approach and you're expectations are higher.

Maybe that's why the population of singles in the US is so high. You can go to your grave thinking that one day you'll meet the perfect man or woman if you just go to the right web site.... but you never do.

Of course, I also know a few people who are happily married from meeting online. But they are fewer than the folks I know who met face to face.

[deez nuts]

I've never had any real luck with online dating. I'd still say that going out and being active has been the most fruitful for me.

the problem with online is that it's the lazy approach and you're expectations are higher.

Maybe that's why the population of singles in the US is so high. You can go to your grave thinking that one day you'll meet the perfect man or woman if you just go to the right web site.... but you never do.

Of course, I also know a few people who are happily married from meeting online. But they are fewer than the folks I know who met face to face.

I think face to face is still the best way. But, online is a great way to supplement your dating life. I mean you can come home after working late, turn on your computer, chat with the women that you've met, maybe convince them to flash you at least some titties on the webcam or have pics e-mailed to you, phone sex without having to pay the outlandish cost per minute etc etc etc. I mean you can't go out all the time to meet women. And if you get that far with her online, there's a good chance when the two of you do decide to meet up for the first time, you'll get laid.

Meeting women online is also a convenient way to cheat on your girlfriend.

[Fireblade]

Of course it does. Ask Chris Hansen. But only to catch pervs.

[sageb1]

yes, i met my first girlfriend by making a flip remark about university women on Usenet.

i then chatted my second GF and we moved in within 3 months of meeting.

finally, i met the latest off Plentyoffish.com.

[Azn Retribution]

I did all my online dating back in my teens during the asianavenue days. also when xanga was at its prime. nice way to get admirers/stalkers.

Pretty good experiences for the most part. Did date the obligatory cute psycho chick except she didn't seem psycho at first. just really insecure.

[tommyhtown]

Pretty good experiences for the most part. Did date the obligatory cute psycho chick except she didn't seem psycho at first. just really insecure.

On psycho chicks, a freind of mine had a comment after hearing upon my just-ended relationship with one. She said 'they all (chicks) are.'

[cloudzero]

love those chicks. fun to psycho them back and see who gets creeped out first.