[Kappuru]

I signed up for a dating site today.

It's pretty much an experiment, as I have a self imposed ban on relationships and also meeting online girls, but I'm curious at what kind of weird messages I'll get on there.

Also, I'm trying to develop some code for this particular site that will let you 'cheat' your compatability with someone else. I'm not sure if that'll work, but whatever.

I was just curious if anyone here has used them. I think there's a lot of money in them... isn't there one specifically for gamers or something?
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[haircute]

What do you mean "money"? If by money you mean meeting girls to sleep with then, yes, dating sites are FULL of money.

If you meant some kind of revenue generating thing using the code you're talking about then I have no idea because I don't even understand anything I've typed in this sentence before the word "about".
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Get Wild and Tough!

[aderack]

I met my partner online. Of course, I wasn't looking for a relationship. So, uh. Not sure how that balances off.

It was a mutual interest in Edward Gorey.

[Adilegian]

[Mikey]

[dessgeega]

i once briefly dated someone i met off a personals site. she was actually smart and creative and fairly yummy, which i firmly established over long phone calls before agreeing to meet her. it was nice for a little while, but ultimately didn't work out, which i guess is how these things go. that pretty much satisfied my curiosity over online personals. for the most part i like to know someone for a while before dating.
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[witness_sixdays]

[shrugtheironteacup]

In less than a month I will be Best Man at the wedding of two people who met via some internet dating site.

Note that the Groom doesn't want anyone to know how they met, and probably never would have told me. I found out when the Bride told one of her friends in my presence.
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[Mr. Apol]

i made out with a girl i met on facebook one time
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[CubaLibre]

My response to internet dating is NO DON'T DO IT

It won't always fail. It will just pretty much always fail.

Meeting people online by chance and eventually dating them, though, is cool. Same as meeting someone by chance anywhere else.
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Let's Play, starring me.

[BenoitRen]

Organised love affairs/dating/marriage generally doesn't work out... I find the idea of dating sites silly.
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[GalaxyHead]

The majority of relationships don't work. The medium of interaction is not exactly the culprit in this case. I can say this, having been in several relationships that developed offline and on.

When something works it works, when it doesn't it doesn't.
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[Toups]

Recommending okcupid.

Not that it'll get you chicks or anything, but it's fun.
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[Cossix]

I met my girlfriend on OKCupid. It worked pretty well for me. It just helps weed out the people you'd be terribly incompatible with, I think.

[boojiboy7]

Yeah, i have been talking to a girl from OKcupid for the past couple days. don't know if it will go anywhere or it I want it to, but the conversations over AIM have been enjoyable.

[slipstream]

[Adilegian]

To be honest, here, my fiance and I didn't meet over a dating site. Just over a forum where we had common interests.

I had had one relationship before that began online due to mutual interest in theology. It didn't work out due to distance, which is why my fiance moved to my city (from TX to SC is one hell of a drive via UHaul) about three years ago after we'd been dating long-distance for about six months.

So good things do work out! Obviously I wouldn't promise the same experience for others, but, here's testimony to a good experience with the whole mess.
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[108]

[108]

[Maztorre]

[Adilegian]

[108]

[Adilegian]

[Kappuru]

[Kappuru]

[Baron Patsy]

My father uses Match.com. That's about the extent of my knowledge on the subject.

[slipstream]

[108]

[aderack]

[Kappuru]

[The Troops]

I've met a lot of girls off OKcupid. Not so much these days. (I've been getting one message a month recently, maybe less.) But in 04, 05. I would go to their dorms and sit on opposite ends of their couches with them and watch French movies.

You really have to approach the situation as though you're a reformed rapist. You have to present yourself in a textual manner that acknowledges your own severe undesirability. Not self-deprecating humor. I mean sincere apology. You're honestly trying to be a good person, but you just can't help that you're male, and you're trying to move beyond that.

You will spend two to four weeks typing back and forth to this person. It's important to keep track of what you've said. Enable your chat logs. Know when to punctuate, and when not to. There are certain formalities that internet women adhere to.

At about the one-month mark (generalizing; I've gone as long as nine), when she feels safe enough to hear your voice, you may begin speaking on the telephone. Later, you may have the privilege of arranging actual meetings in well-lit public places. Even now, remember your humbled state, and know the female's prerogative of cutting off plans at the most arbitrary of whims, without any need to inform you, much less speak to you again. You must take this setback in stride. Suppress the frustration, let it ferment and add to your self-destructive mystique. Enraged blog posts will only invite the ire of the female, and the laughter of males with more capacity for courtship.

Selecting an opening greeting can prove to be a challenge. Some prefer the more customary "Hello," while others demand that you open with some sort of reference to their profile as proof of your commitment. Self-described "quirky" girls may take delight in an irreverent, off-the-cuff musing, such as "sigh . . . i eat far too many apples." More the case than not, though, none of these techniques will work, and your advance will be preemptively ignored, forwarded to their inbox, and replied to a week later with an unpunctuated "what."

[Kappuru]

Well, I'm not really trying to date girls off of OKcupid. It's kind of an experiment to see how different (read: un-artsy) people are where i'm eventually moving after college :(
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[BenoitRen]

[108]

[aderack]

I think the controls are dodgy and the balance is kind of broken. How's a person supposed to play at tournament level?

[another god]

[aderack]

[psiga]

"The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (Imitation Leather)"

I like the "(Imitation Leather)" part.
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[Toptube]

I've only ever met in person with two of my online friends. but these were people that I really enjoyed messaging and chatting with, people that I communicated with one-on-one quite often (by way of the internet). I could also tell that they also enjoyed chatting with me much the same. it was to the point that meeting was pretty natural and a very smooth situation--we were good friends anyways before hand.

I've got a couple of online friends right now that i've never met that I would really like to meet/visit someday.

I've never signed up to a dating site though. this is just from my experiences with myspace, msn public profile, and skype public profile.

[parker]

I met a girl one time. She drove across half the US just to come see me. She lived with me for awhile. We were going to get married I guess. She had to go back to school though, just for one semester to be in a play, then she'd come back. That was three years ago, she's still in school, haven't seen her since, etc. What I'm saying is, it didn't turn out too good. And me, I haven't been with a girl since. I prefer masturbation to intimacy with human beings now.

Getting a girl is easier than getting free AOL hours though, especially what with all the myspace teen friendship pages and whatnot out there these days. Even if you're ugly or misshapen, out there somewhere you're somebodies fetish.

[Intentionally Wrong]

Parker knows what's up.
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