The Truth About Internet Dating
Posted by: Catherine Strawn
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relationships
4:00PM, Wednesday June 4th 2008
Check out this cartoon depicting one guy’s thoughts about online dating. It starts out on a positive note—the girl he’s been chatting with says she’ll go on a date with him, and he even gets some virtual tongue action via instant messenger. Things seem to be going well enough, as they take a ride on a ferris wheel, go to the movies, have a picnic in the park, go to bed together…and then, you realize the guy is dreaming. This is so true about online dating. Since you haven’t met any of the people, you can imagine them however you want (with a face like Casey Affleck and a voice like Pierce Brosnan). You can visualize your life with them until you meet them. Then, you see that they completely suck or can’t hold a conversation or don’t look like their pictures at all. “[Dating is] like buying a CD, only if you like the CD, you have to call the store and see if they’ll let you keep it. And if you don’t like it, you have to call the store and tell them why,” one of my friends told me. That’s why I illegally download music. [I Am Bored]
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sugarlips
wrote on June 4 2008 @ 05:14 pm: [report]
Online dating is a little different. It’s more like amazon.com. You see the album cover, and only hear snippets of some songs. You buy the whole CD. It arrives, only for you to find the songs are awful, put you to sleep, and although the cover is pretty, there’s nothing inside the case. And now it’ll cost you to send it back.
LovesIt
wrote on June 5 2008 @ 06:33 am: [report]
@Sugarlips. Wonderful metaphor.
Catherine
wrote on June 5 2008 @ 07:41 am: [report]
@sugarlips: seriously brilliant.
Twinkieo
wrote on June 5 2008 @ 08:26 am: [report]
Dating, in all forms, sucks. But, you do what you have to do until you don’t have to do it anymore, right? ;o)
greginlondon
wrote on June 5 2008 @ 11:54 am: [report]
Dating sites don’t work because it takes a lot of time to get to know someone online before you go out with them. Emails back and forth, short IM messages, little follow up. Just launched a twitter-like dating site - [url=http://www.TalkAboutADate.com]http://www.TalkAboutADate.com[/url] - which is all about quick and easy conversations with people.
Jar by the Door
wrote on June 7 2008 @ 11:05 am: [report]
I met my boyfriend over the internet (on a dating/networking site I joined for laughs). We ended up having a mutual friend which really eased me into the decision of actually meeting him, but still, he turned out to be basically all I’d want in someone to have a relationship with.
But I’m willing to accept that my short stint at Internet Dating was a complete fluke and far from the ‘internet dating norm’.