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Q: How effective is online dating?
Submitted By: blqjag, 309 days, 16 hours, 18 minutes ago
With so many online dating sites out there with many members I wonder how effective it is. I'd like to know any experiences people have had.
Please try not to post duplicate answers... if you see an answer that you want to post, just add a vote to it and you can add a note as well. Thank You
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pretty good
Submitted By: Bedevere ( 309 days, 14 hours, 31 minutes ago )
I watched my friend do online dating for years. He was having no trouble at all meeting girls that were good enough for relationships that lasted several months to a year each. He eventually met his current wife online.
Finally I let him talk me into it, too. I had never dated much, but had no problem meeting some interesting (and some boring) girls online. I met my current GF of 9 months on HotOrNot.com, which is maybe the most fun of all the ones I've tried. Match.com seems the most average of the sites I've tried and wasn't too exciting. eHarmony totally sucks. OKCupid is maybe the most interesting and promising site. It's totally free and looks like it has the best matching software of all. I was doing both OKCupid and HotOrNot when I got out of the game and would recommend both of those.
Submitted By: Raptor235
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Still with my OKCupid guy
Submitted By: Merkuri ( 309 days, 14 hours, 16 minutes ago )
I met my boyfriend on www.OKCupid.com about two years ago. We're living with each other now and have been "dating" in real life for over a year and a half. I have never been so happy.
My sister convinced me to try it. I was never much of a social person and never went anywhere that singles hooked up. I did spend a lot of time online, though, so eventually I caved to my sister's insistence and joined OKCupid.
OKCupid's fun because it's free and they have a nifty and fairly accurate way of matching people. You answer a bunch of questions from a massive list (how many you answer is up to you, but the more you answer the more accurate your results), then you say how your ideal mate would answer, and how important the question is for you. Their computer then matches potential mates with what you put as your ideal mate's answer and weights it based on the importance. It then gives you a percentile score to say how much that person matches your ideal. It averages both of your percentiles together to get a "couple score", and this is what's displayed when you look at a person.It has a lot of other fun stuff on the site to keep you occupied, like the Virgin Game and a whole series of user-created personality tests. Even though they have a lot of other stuff it's still primarily a dating site and I found myself going there less and less often as my bf and I kept going out.
I am extremely satisfied with the results I got, though. I love my boy and we're very happily living together two years after OKCupid. :)2
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Effectiveness
Submitted By: Mathew ( 309 days, 13 hours, 27 minutes ago )
I've tried online dating in the past, and like everything in life, it's worth the amount of effort you put into it. If you don't put up a thoughtful profile, if you check it once a month, put up no picture, the likelyhood is it is not going to work out all that well for you. Conversely, a buddy of mine actually met his belle via Usenet.... they shared a common interest and struck up a dialog from there.
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Full of lies...
Submitted By: Knuxus ( 309 days, 15 hours, 31 minutes ago )
Can you really trust that much...
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Submitted By: RandomSkratch
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beware
Submitted By: manchld ( 300 days, 19 hours, 36 minutes ago )
I found that I like using these sites like OKcupid, [previously I was on hotornot], and myspace can be used similarly. I have yet to meet anyone I wanted to stay with more than a couple dates. In my experience the women who take the steps to want to meet you really quick up front are the dregs. I've run into some pretty screwed up women that way.
ps- stay away from webdate.com
ps- stay away from webdate.com