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Do you believe we use these internet dating sites as a last resort to find a partner/significant other?


And if so, does that make us sad/pathetic or just innovative and optimistic?

I believe for a lot of people it is... the older we get the harder it is to find somebody especially if we don't get out much.. not like it was when we were in high school.. as for sad/pathetic... I don't think we are that..

I'm not sure about the last resort but do think ppl tend to feel safer sitting behind the monitor.

As to be sad and pathetic I like to say we just think outside the box.

I don't see it as a last resort at all. I still have a social life and I do meet men from other avenues. I just view Internet singles sites as another avenue. And, thankfully, it has given me new friends as well...both male and female and both virtual and in real life.

I use the site for another source of entertainment (at times); sometimes there is offered
useful information; a way to get feedback regarding 'who I am'; and at last - it's interesting
to see what types are viewing me. How's that for 'object referral' - egocentric

To be honest, I'm truly content with who I am and my choices in life at this date in time. The
different personalities that respond on CS are amazing and this site happens to be the most
appealing to me. I'm single so I guess that qualifies me for being here (as long as I mind my
p's and q's)

for me that idea is a joke
i see and meet people in everyday life,i don`t do the clubs & bars,i sit and chat see how people react from places different from where i live,viewpoints change here in the US from north to south, would be crazy to think they don`t change as we cross the pond

I'll never view it as a last resort, since I don't hang out in bars, the laundromat, or spend inordinate amounts of time in the produce section.

I take it at face value. If something good happens, great. If not, I'll enjoy the friends and the cyber company.

OMG - The produce section ........ never thought to look there!

I don't believe using dating sites makes us sad or pathetic nor innovative or optimistic, though I suppose it could be viewed as a last resort to some people who perhaps find the whole concept of online dating strange somehow, as I did a few years ago and I still occasionally have a slight unease about it.

As others have said, and I agree entirely, it is simply another means of communicating and perhaps meeting people. The problem, in my opinion, is when people who have little or no social life become too dependent on it..... that is sad.

Nooo ... thinking like that is bad for you.

I believe that interwebs is a different kind of place to find someone. You get to know someone from inside out as oppose to from outside in. I don't restrict my self to internet dating ...how ever all of my serious relationships have been net initiated.

My views are along the same lines as this post

nooo I don't think it's a last resort at all.. I think it's a great way to talk to people you would have probably never come across... and in many ways.. better than learning to know someone 'in person'.. sometimes on-line we learn more about each other than we would face to face.

it's a great way to cast a wider net.. imo

Well-said, Euphoria. I have nothing to add.

no i dont think so

we used it because we hide behind the keybord to do things will will not dare to do in person or real life

Nope, it just shows we either bore easily or want cheap entertainment..

Good grief, every other thread on this forum now seems to be from months and months ago.... Someone must have a LOT of time on their hands. I'm a bit envious!

i just found 3 more people on this old thread that needed flowering and inviting back


wait not old


that sounded wrong

Leave the "we" out of it. What you do or who you are behind your keyboard is your business. Not everyone is like that.

I say and do the same things in real life in front of anyone that I do and say on here. I am not someone who skulks around trying to be someone else or appear to be something that I am not.

I think this applies to most people on the forums too.

So speak only for yourself. You don't know the rest of us.

what they both said.