online dating

[trappedinabay]

A friend of mine is writing an article about online dating, and she asked for input. Below is my response.

It's arguably even more efficient than speed dating. You can examine the profiles of hundreds of eligible potential suitors, eliminating the losers from consideration and narrowing the pool of people you're interested in / attracted to. Then

Comments

[thesnark]

Did you and Frank meet online? Andrew and I did, and obviously that's worked out pretty well for us so far, even if I did almost murder him yesterday due to nicotine withdrawal, PMS and The Hottest Day On Record for Bellingham.

[trappedinabay]

Kinda/sorta? He had apparently been noticing me around town for years, but he was in relationship and never approached me. We were at a mutual friend's party where he was DJing, but didn't actually speak. Then a week or a few days later, he found one of my profiles and messaged me about my movie tastes, and after exchanging a few messages we set up a date.

[calmdahn]

Andrea it's time you told everybody the truth about how we met:

http://www.prisonpenpals.com/

[flamingjune07]

Dating sucks.

That is all.

[xochitl]

It's also easier to reject/be rejected when nobody has to see anybody else's face.

[trappedinabay]

I met my share of loonies through online dating, but I've also met a handful of really awesome people (some of whom I dated and some of whom I became friends with). It's kind of a tossup. After a while you get better at spotting the crazies.

[calmdahn]

My Detroit techno related friend Lori from Austin, TX works for Match.com. You should ask your friend who is writing the article if he/she wants me to get him/her in touch with Lori.