Is there a social stigma to online dating?

WTF, that was meat. Not to an American?

 

i don't know about the social part, but long distance relationships with people you've never met nor hugged in person, have always seemed a bit odd to me.

 

I read this thing recently that said 33% of married couples meet online. It included a few other ways too, like at work, at a bar, through mutual friends. The other options were lower than that 33%.

 

life keeps changing and goes on. i guess i shouldn't be surprised.

 

That was how many couples married in a certain year...don't remember the year, pretty recent though obviously.

 

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Personally, I could never date someone I met online, but it's not an issue as I've been with the same girl for almost 22 years and I can't ever see entering the dating pool again at this point. I have however met a lot of really cool people online over the years.

 

I have just met a wonderful woman on OKcupid.com. We are spending the entire weekend together.

 

Be careful w/ the online dating sites. I could see several possible scenarios in which the person you are interacting with isn't who they say they are, or the information provided is actually pretext.

Provided it's a real person you're dealing with and not part of some type of social engineering scheme then it's cool I guess. What many don't realize is that what makes the internet dangerous is precisely the fact that in general you don't know that much about those people. How would you verify that information?

 

There are a lot of scammers out there, and a lot of creeps too, so I agree with you, caution is needed.

I've never tried online dating, but if I did, I'd want a physical meet up early on. A friend of mine drove 200 miles to meet a women from an online dating site, and she'd completely mis represented herself.

It all goes to show though how desperate people are for love.:love:

 

I wouldn't call people intrested in my reasonably priced lovebot desperate. Just regular folks who want to improve their odds at meeting a special someone. :love:

 

people don't realize that?

 

lol.

 

sadly some people dont...I've shown a few people some things that "could be done"..sketchy things....like they should NOT trust me after that but they're oblivious to it, or at the worst think its "cool"

And I'm like, "you just told me "this" and "this", wait a second...who's that calling you? Do a reverse lookup on that number, oh it's Sprint Tell me more about your mobile carrier... I don't mean any harm by any of this of course, and it's not a prank once I tell you about it. I do like pranks sometimes tho.

 

Example please.

 

some people are way too trusting/comfortable with someone they've never met. I can't come up with an example, I guess I don't really know about this shit

Just because someone told you a lot about them and personal information doesn't mean you can trust them because of that. Everything they told you may be bullshit/pretexting. There are really many possibilities, depending on what information you are trying to obtain. Date of birth is a peice of information that most people don't give much thought to, knowing this is only a few forgeries away from a plethora of other information tho.

Some of this is clearly common sense, some people seem to lack that tho...

 

Well thanks for showing me the error of my ways there chief.

 

You do have to trust people a little. What's the fun in being 100% safe all the time?

 

So he went on 88 first dates before someone found him. Seems like a lot of effort for little results. When I was single I had better luck without all that math.

 

Some people tell me all their information OR made up information because they think I'm stupid enough to tell them mine.

Be real with your life.

I'd like to know how to report someone to a Moderator.