On the internet, no one knows you're a manatee.
If you really believe online dating is eroding humanity, then I think you need to really start looking at all the kids who can’t survive 5 minutes without texting someone else, and whose main form of communication with someone right next to them is pressing buttons rather than talking.
Online dating ain’t nuthin’ compared to how dysfunctional kids are without their supposedly-critical toys.
Filling out a resume and removing the ‘middle man’ or the ‘meddle woman’.
Very dramatic. I know people who met and married through Internet dating. I think it is a good thing. Some people are shy. Some people don’t want the games. It is not hurting anyone. My wife and I were married way before internet dating in case some were wondering.
>>> Online dating is eroding humanity
Nothing wrong with online dating. Of course you need to invest in the appropriate hardware.
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Sure, only not as much as reading the Guardian is.
Or maybe it only thins out the herd.
On the internet, no one knows you're a manatee.
Ridiculous. I met my husband in an AOL chatroom in 1994 and we’ve been happily married since 1995. My sister met her husband the same way, and I know of other couples as well. It’s a lot healthier than the singles bar ‘meat markets’, where a single glance determines whether or not you’ll even strike up a conversation with someone. Now THAT is dehumanizing.
horse hockey
selfishness and greed are eroding humanity, not dating
Bah! I met my spouse on the internet and we fell in love with each other through talking and getting to know each other before we ever met face to face. We married 6 months after we first met and are celebrating our 11th anniversary this weekend. His brother and his wife also met online and will be celebrating their 8 year anniversary Monday. It is no different than meeting someone out somewhere.
I think using rationality and common sense is far better than just meeting some attractive person in a bar. Families are important, solid character is important. I like the way Orthodox Jews matchmake. The families introduce their marriageable children to good kids from solid families and see what happens. If it doesn’t work, it’s fine. But how nice is it to have the person and his family already vetted for you, and you only have to see if something sparks? That seems like the correct order to do things. Having sex with someone doesn’t tell you a whole lot about how they will be in your life, sorry dudes. Think about Michael Douglas in that bunny boiling movie.
Phew, that's a relief...All this time I thought it was Eastern European mail order brides.
I know 3 different marriages that started with online dating. If that’s eroding humanity then there’s something wrong with humanity not online dating.
Maybe dating sites only work for people who's notion of the world is very simple, and all black-and-white.
Or those who are willing to fudge the truth so as to fit it with the allotted choice.
I am amazed at how unanimous the response is. I think a lot it has to do with the attitude of the people on dating sites. Since FReepers are of a conservative mindset and tend to look for, consciously or subconsciously, people of substance and of a similar mindset, OLD works for them. But I will say a lot, even a good majority perhaps, are not like us. They are superficial, as are their wants and needs, and they roam in the wilderness of OLD for years.
The bedrock of liberty is the freedom to pimp yourself. And now we haz the toolz. :^)
After my 18-year marriage collapsed four years ago, I have been in two sequential relationships with women I met on Match.com. The one I’m with now I met that way a year ago, and I have never been as happy with a woman as I am with her. I’m hoping this one lasts forever. (Looking good).
I met my wife of 14 years on-line.
Our relationship on line resembled our grandfathers and grand mother’s relationship. We fell in love through conversation and common interests.
Then we met and got married.
I met my husband on FreeRepublic. Online courtship worked so well for us. Modern relationships are too tied up in hormonal attraction, not life comparability. I think online dating offers potential for making sure the important stuff is in common before “falling in love”