Dating Sites

[CinRell]

I'm afraid to do this due to age (50)and weight (200lb). Are there real people on these sites? I always feel like you have to be really good looking to meet anyone decent. On the plus side, never married, no kids.

There are people of all ages, shapes and sizes on dating sites!!!! I'm quite pooh-sized. I rarely felt judged for it. (of course there are the losers here and there who are mean but... I figure... they're just that miserable to have to insult a stranger, I pity them!.. plus this fat girl wouldn't give them the time of day )

 

[Mickey1Fan]

My son met his wife on Plenty of Fish. She lived five minutes away from us. They got married in October last year.

 

[ndj1982]

I actually think online sites are becoming more and more popular for everyday people to meet up now. Take it from someone like myself who worked a few years overnight before returning to college. Based on your job hours, you sometimes just don't have the time to get out there. Also, the bar seen isn't all it's cracked up to be. I went through that phase in my early to mid-20's and television tends to fabricate bar and club hook-ups a lot more than it actually happens.

 

[Straughn]

Another match.com success story here. For those of you who are over 50and wonder if on-line dating would work for "older" folks, yes it does. I had been a widow for over 2 years when I decided that I wanted to stick my toe back in the dating pool. It took about 6 weeks (and a bunch of one date only events) before I met a wonderful man. We have been dating since September and things look promising.

 

[ickletarakins]

WOW!!!

My friend went on a dating site and found a really nice normal guy!!!

Anyone else hear of true success stories??

One of my best friends (who is obviously totally normal, or he wouldn't be one of my best friends, haha) used eHarmony and even though he met a few people that he wasn't all that into, none of them were abnormal/weird/crazy. He was on there for six months, off for six months, then when he got back on again he almost immediately met his current girlfriend. They have now been together over a year and a half and bought a house together about 8 months ago.

 

[MATTERHORN]

Yep! They work! Met someone here on the DIS, actually, on the Adults and Solos thread. We were friends/dated long distance for a year and a half, and two weeks ago, I moved from Nevada to Florida to be with him. I think it's amazing that we ever even met and so far, it's been everything I want and more. Good luck!

Andrea

 

[transnet87]

Geesh, I guess my sitting chilling out in my home office and working 7 days a week is not the way to find romance huh!! Glad to hear many of you found wonderful relationships.

 

[diznut66]

Posted my info on Disdate as well....

 

[Emm]

My SO and I met through an online dating site. We would not have met otherwise because we live in different small towns (near the same big town) and don't have any friends in common (that we know of). Yet we hit it off immediately.

At the same time, it took me almost 4 years of dating (off and on) both online and through more traditional methods before he came into my life. So my take on online dating is that, like traditional dating, it is not a magic solution to being alone, it just increases your chances of meeting more people.

My main tips for online dating are to present yourself positively yet honestly, to be very cautious about first meetings and limit any "personal" information until you've had a chance to get to know that the other person is trustworthy, and to be aware that because you are meeting people who have no other link to you, they may feel more free to disappear from your life without warning. That being said, most of the time things will go as well as with any other type of dating.

There is no shame to online dating. In these busy days, how else can you meet people that are not co-workers, neighbors or members of your church? It is certainly better than meeting strangers at a bar. Just remember that e-mail friendships often give a false sense of intimacy/closeness, that not everyone tells the truth on these sites ("on the internet, no one knows you are a dog") and that the purpose of online "dating" is really to introduce you to people. Beyond that, you will have to go through the same old steps of real life dating that any other kind of meeting will achieve.

Best of luck.

 

[everydaymathchick]

Anyone else having issues with DisDates being down today? I randomly winked a guy who caught my eye, lo and behold he winked back and sent me a message today, but I can't get to the site now! I remember reading something about changing servers... was that a recent thing or thing from the past?

edit: Nevermind - I restarted my computer, and it's working now. LOL! Gotta love technology...