If you enjoy acting juvenile, cyber dating is for you. Feel free to steal photos of little-known models and post them on cyber dating sites along with made-up profiles.
If you really want to meet someone and are not just joking around, forget about cyber dating and start looking offline.
I don't know why... there's a little voice in my head telling me drive across town to some place called ---, and knock on the front door... it's the darndest thing. Maybe this is how I'm supposed to "just appear" before my future wife?
The key to the effectiveness of dating sites is to start one yourself, take your pick of the singles who join, then conveniently go out of business or sell the site.
One of the unwritten rules is that you're supposed to hurt the lonely and the desperate, but you must never help them. Whoops---I let the secret out! [I duck a tomato hurled in my direction]
See what I mean? No wonder Realdoll.com's business is booming. Maybe I should reconsider what I said, and order one of those Realdolls for myself. I could dress her up and take her out to dinner, take her shopping, all that junk. Even take her to a speed dating party, when I'm in a spiteful mood.
Just for kicks, I browsed some of the do-nothing dating sites. I found something which I used to think was funny, but now I realize it's true.
Ever heard of SWANS (strong women achievers, no spouse)? Their profiles keep popping up on different dating sites. I recognized one from the dating circuit 2 years ago, says she earns a 6-figure salary and is desperate to have kids (she's now 39). From what she says about herself in her profile, she has set the bar impossibly high for most men. I think this woman has little chance of meeting her ideal date, never mind that she's in the center of a city which has a severe shortage of single women. It's the same story with a lot of women whose profiles I see---they're poisoning their own well, and I speak as a publisher who owns a woodworking business and a house with 2 vacant bedrooms.
I can at least say one positive thing about SWANS... when they get too old to bag a husband, they'll be able to afford any home health care nurse they want.
I once wanted a loving, caring relationship, but unfortunately everyone else just wanted to play games. Now they have the temerity to whine about how it's so hard to find the right person. If you don't want to be disappointed, don't disappoint others.
If I really wanted that one special person, I'd go to some third world country and buy here, then bring her back here. But I don't, because I cook my own meals, do all my own laundry, etc etc. I have absolutely no use for a partner.
BTW to that woman in Alabama... forget about Prince Charming pursuing you, you've got to do like Dusty Springfield said and go out and get him. This is the U S of A, not Bolivia.
I am ashamed to admit I was attracted to someone I met on here... once. That woman thought that just because she owned her own cattle ranch, she could act smug and put down every man she met. That woman is so opinionated, I doubt she'll ever meet a man willing to put up with her idiosyncrases. Believe me, I'll never make that mistake again.
For the record, I'm 40, single, I own a house on L.A.'s coveted Westside, I have 2 jobs, one of which is a home business, and I live alone in this empty 3-bedroom house. When I see all the problems couples are having these days, I don't feel sorry for myself... I thank my lucky stars I don't have to put up with that kind of situation. Rather, I feel a lot of other singles have gotten themselves into their own messes by moving out to little rural towns and lamenting, "boo hoo, poor me, there aren't any other single men/women here in the little town of Jerkwater (population: you)". How pathetic. You made the mess, you should clean it up. Sell that ranch and move to a big city.
But the ones who really make me mad are the spoofers, or the singles who don't really want a relationship but yet they constantly test the waters. If you're not serious about wanting a relationship, why waste your time and everyone else's? Me Tarzan, you Jane... it should be as simple and straightforward as that. If you don't want to put it on the line, at least stop teasing the rest of us.
Provided I was still into online dating, the first thing I'd look for would be whether the woman has actually taken the time to write a description of herself. Nowadays, they're all fake.
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RE: How effective are dating sites?
I notice this site seems to have a lot of links and ads for other online dating sites... gee, I can't imagine why!