Online Dating...No so taboo!
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Online Dating...No so taboo!
| Wed, 07-27-2005 - 2:03pm |
With the recent serious "Hooking Up" airing on ABC, and an upcoming release of the movie "Matchmaker.com" I am curious to know how the image of OLD is changing?
I found it interesting that statistics report that 48 million people are Online Dating.

With my friends they know how I met “the usual”. My family knows how I meet guys “the usual or OLD as we call it”. My last employer I put an ad up for him on match.com and wrote his profile, ha! The company I work for now is more conservative and I don’t share how I meet the guys I’m dating – doesn’t feel right. If I do I tell them I met them wherever our first date was, I just don’t have any desire to be caught up in “office gossip”. Plus they aren’t my friends per say just people I have to work with—I like to reveal as little about myself personally in my work environment where I’m at now – I’ve also had employers that were more like friends so they knew – as I said, I go case by case basis.
I went to a wedding last year and they made sure to tell me not to say they met on line but they met on a hike – the hike was their first date so for some it still is.
I think it is changing somewhat to how online dating is viewed, yet there are so many people who still don't know much about it and see it as weird or something, but I'd say that's mostly the people over 40. I just say, well it's a way to meet people that I wouldn't have had exposure to the traditional way - the dating part is the same. But with so many people using OLD it has to be changing for the better I would think.
Sunshine
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Not so much the "norm" IMO, but definitely a
His user name should have been your first clue...no guy who truly is looking for a relationship would use that as a user name.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but now you know that it takes a lot more than one meeting to start a relationship, and that you shouldn't get your hopes up prior to meeting or have any expectations based on just one meeting.
Sheri