Comments for My Online Dating Experience

Comment on Day 26: Career Setbacks by My-online-dating-experience

My-online-dating-experience — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:04:45 +0000

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Comment on Day 37: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas by amy

amy — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:54:14 +0000

Very funny and clever! Good work!

Comment on Day 16: Neverending Rejection by George

George — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:18:17 +0000

When I am interested I call. I don’t wait and I certainly don’t have rules like “I have to wait two hours” or “I have to wait a day” or “I have to let it go to voice mail”. Then again I am usually called ‘desperate’ If there’s any guidance, rules, common sense, I’d love to know them…

Comment on Day 7: Still Holding by George

George — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:05:03 +0000

I like your blog. Very nicely written. I was actually thinking “that’s why you are still single” when I read it, which made me smile… not a evil grin, but half way there. There are a lot of unsavory guys (and gals) online, but your filtering and reading between the lines and keywords and who knows what else it just out of control. I am on Match myself and was just contemplating starting a guys version of your blog My complaint from women (at least in Seattle) - flaky, no respect and aboslutely no style. But I love the city otherwise… though situation to be in. I’ll keep reading… love to see how the saga unfolds.

Comment on Update– Four Years Later by CH

CH — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:30:50 +0000

Personally I think online dating is useless for anyone over 28. It doesn’t matter how good you look for your age the computer will filter you out unless you lie about your age. All the male profiles ask for women their age and below because men are basically shallow and can’t see past a digit. Your best bet is to let the universe do the work for you and find someone in a face to face scenario. They’ll already know whether they are interested or not well before your age ever comes up in conversation. As a late 30’s female I get loads of attention from 20 somethings in person and only 50 somethings online. I’ll take the personal approach anyday.

Comment on Update– Four Years Later by EB

EB — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:37:14 +0000

Well I will say I disagreed with you on little things, but can’t hold anything against you.

Funny, you decided to update on my birthday. May take it as a sign.

Anyways, I wanted to say good luck, and I hope you find Mr.Right.

Comment on The End (Round One) by MAverage

MAverage — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:52:47 +0000

Whoa… the parallels here are… oh, I don’t know… intriguing? Inevitable? It’s because the society today is so mobile that no one stays in one place long enough to build ‘community’, and despite what StarBucks (cha-ching) wants you to believe, there is still not a good ‘third place’ between home and work where people can just hang out and get to know each other. Churches, married friends, and near by family used to provide that service - they would ‘pre-screen’ potential ‘matches’ and only put you in touch with each other if there were some commonalities in your background.

As for the silences… could it be that the men’s 1 month on Match expired? Or they were actually married guys looking for action on the side? (yes, everyone hates that - especially single men).

I found YOUR blog while checking to see if Bing had spidered MY blog… synchronicity. Normally, I would never Google a date, but I don’t guess the same applies to someone who already blogs, and puts their heart & soul right out there… the idiots… uh… OH! Sorry ;?P

Here’s hoping YOUR silence is because you met the right guy for you, or someone tolerably close that you could… tolerate. All the best.

Dare to Be Happy,
M.Average.

Comment on The End (Round One) by MAverage

MAverage — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:27:19 +0000

Wow… from the glimpses into day 1, and day 88, your experiences mirror mine in TOO MANY ways. No ‘vicarious living thru their kids’, no women who haven’t managed to make it to ‘baggage claim’, yes to ‘good kisser’, yes to interesting conversations, well read, with a good (sarcastic?) sense of humor.

Here’s hoping you found someone with which to spend your evenings,
MAverage

Comment on The End (Round One) by Scott

Scott — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:12:18 +0000

The ones that disappear. They probably got arrested or something.Despite positive words in recent times. (most likely faked by advertisers on dating sites). Online dating is still a hub for mostly undesirables and freaks of all kinds. Look if you had googled opinions about online dating a few tears ago. Most of the results would have warned against it. Now you see all this positive crap. Well it’s bull. Ad companies want more people to join sites and click there adds. It’s still a crappy game.

Comment on The End (Round One) by rosa

rosa — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:53:57 +0000

thank you soooo much Fifa for sharing your experiences! things haven’t changed much since you wrote this 3 1/2 years ago! thank you so much for putting my experiences into words — it seems to be universal!

i think i am dropping match.com to go meet fella’s IN PERSON! off to the car show!

thank you again for sharing with us! a great, honest and entertaining read dear!

all the best!
rosa