Internet Dating.....Who Has Done it?!

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Deiwos said:
So I thought I was getting somewhere on POF with a girl. We messaged each other frequently and seemed to get on well. I can't stand the site though so I said as much, gave her my number and haven't heard a word since :(

Probably for the best though, I haven't got time to be dating whilst I'm on my PGCE course!
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There is a girl I have been talking to on and off for a while and it is much like this but I think I am starting to realise what the problem is. She hasn't met anyone from online dating yet and I think she is a bit scared, which I can kind of understand. I hate the anticipation of meeting someone from online.

Oh and dude, get HER number, you need to chase her.
 
I broke up with my GF a month or so ago and was told to have a look on PoF by my mum and sister (sister has met a few people on there as well as her current BF). I don't really care about a relationship at the moment tbh for various reasons, still missing my ex etc. and some work/money issues so just stuck the minimum in PoF so I could see the profiles...

What a waste of time from what I can see, most of the women are +1s, with at least one kid and most of the rest look like those you'd want to cross the road to avoid (this is searching for 18-25s). :p Maybe in a few months i'll put a photo up and spend a bit longer looking but at the moment I am decidedly unimpressed with girls in my area, but then most of the girls in my area are pretty much those described above IRL so... :p :(
 
Amp34 said:
What a waste of time from what I can see, most of the women are +1s, with at least one kid and most of the rest look like those you'd want to cross the road to avoid (this is searching for 18-25s). :p Maybe in a few months i'll put a photo up and spend a bit longer looking but at the moment I am decidedly unimpressed with girls in my area, but then most of the girls in my area are pretty much those described above IRL so... :p :(
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I wouldn't bother honestly mate. That website will only bring you down more as it creates a warped perspective of the market-place. You've got trolls who all think they should be with Adonis himself. Seriously, I wouldn't bother. Just chill out and get over the ex in your own way.
 
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Makes sense, and pretty much what I thought before I looked, the only girls on those sort of sites being the girls that no one wants (well there are a few gens obviously)! Mum and sister then admitted they hadn't thought of that... doh...

At the moment I feel like having someone else but I know it's for all the wrong reasons so unless someone amazing comes along i'm not interested.
Hopefully in a few months i'll be away and leading a totally different life as it were so the oppertunities will arise again. There's something to be said about uni, loads of generally smart and attractive women in one place.:p
 
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Amp34 said:
Makes sense, and pretty much what I thought before I looked, the only girls on those sort of sites being the girls that no one wants (well there are a few gens obviously)! Mum and sister then admitted they hadn't thought of that... doh...

At the moment I feel like having someone else but I know it's for all the wrong reasons so unless someone amazing comes along i'm not interested.
Hopefully in a few months i'll be away and leading a totally different life as it were so the oppertunities will arise again. There's something to be said about uni, loads of generally smart and attractive women in one place.:p
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To be fair, most of the girls I lived with at university were still a bit daft. They were however, on the scale of things, much brighter than those locally.
 
Amp34 said:
I broke up with my GF a month or so ago and was told to have a look on PoF by my mum and sister (sister has met a few people on there as well as her current BF). I don't really care about a relationship at the moment tbh for various reasons, still missing my ex etc. and some work/money issues so just stuck the minimum in PoF so I could see the profiles...

What a waste of time from what I can see, most of the women are +1s, with at least one kid and most of the rest look like those you'd want to cross the road to avoid (this is searching for 18-25s). :p Maybe in a few months i'll put a photo up and spend a bit longer looking but at the moment I am decidedly unimpressed with girls in my area, but then most of the girls in my area are pretty much those described above IRL so... :p :(
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The girl i met on match and had a 3 month relationship seems like she was just on the rebound, we had the most romantic times together when she told me shes fell in love with me only to break my heart a month later and **** off.

I'd say most of the people who go on there and rebounds, id stay clear unless you want to get totally hurt big time like i am.

Funnily enough just before i cancled my match sup i had a wink off a girl on match and added her to msn. Got her number last night and asked her out to which she said yes. She seems geniune this time so will let you know soon no doubt.
 
well i have had a little more luck, sent a message to a nice girl last sunday, and we have been sending long replies back and forth everyday since. I'm now wondering what to do next, how long do people usually take on here before they advance anywhere (mobile no/date) ?
 
If you feel like you want to meet the said lass, then just throw a sly comment into your next message like, "and if we meet up then maybe... blah, blah, blah"

It sounds rubbish, but you can probably see if it is a winner or not.
 
theboyrob said:
well i have had a little more luck, sent a message to a nice girl last sunday, and we have been sending long replies back and forth everyday since. I'm now wondering what to do next, how long do people usually take on here before they advance anywhere (mobile no/date) ?
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Just be straight, 'you sound nice, fancy a meet-up?' you can't really judge until you actually meet someone and most women realise this too ;)
 
I've been single since December so I thought i'd try Match (after reading it on here) and uploaded a profile yesterday, so far i've had a few emails and winks etc but I didnt realise it was so expensive for the full thing? £12.99 a month to read and send messages etc, rip off merchants! But im really intregued on what people have messaged me etc ha ha!
 
johntmanic said:
I've been single since December so I thought i'd try Match (after reading it on here) and uploaded a profile yesterday, so far i've had a few emails and winks etc but I didnt realise it was so expensive for the full thing? £12.99 a month to read and send messages etc, rip off merchants! But im really intregued on what people have messaged me etc ha ha!
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but at least you know people on there who are paying for it, are serious about finding someone and not just boosting their egos ;)
 
mac1st3 said:
but at least you know people on there who are paying for it, are serious about finding someone and not just boosting their egos ;)
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I suppose! I didnt realise it was so expensive though? At first I thought it was £12.99 for 6 months which I didnt think was too bad until I read it properly at was £12.99 a month for 6 months lol! Maybe I should read things better ;)
 
johntmanic said:
I suppose! I didnt realise it was so expensive though? At first I thought it was £12.99 for 6 months which I didnt think was too bad until I read it properly at was £12.99 a month for 6 months lol! Maybe I should read things better ;)
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yea, that's a tad on the expensive side, I tend to stick to the free ones, but then I'm not having much luck with those at the moment :/ lol
 
mac1st3 said:
but at least you know people on there who are paying for it, are serious about finding someone and not just boosting their egos ;)
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This is what I had initially thought...but there are still timewasters on there. Guys who are just interested in one thing, nothing serious.

Same thing happened to a colleague of mine.

There was someone who i continued to email after he left match but I realised I wasn't really interested in him and at that same time met someone who I had wanted to get to know, so I was honest with him and he stopped emailing.

He's recently been in contact again and doesn't seem to want to take no for an answer. :confused: I'm glad I gave him an old email address!!
 
johntmanic said:
What free ones are there? Im rubbish with this sort of thing!
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OkCupid - pretty good, but not that much choice in my area, and it's area search is a little wierd

Plentyoffish - left this one as it was full of chavvy uggos, bottom of the barrell type stuff

Smooch - only recently started using this one, it's not bad, but very limiting about what info to put on people's profiles, also, most people don't actually bother filling out the profile likes/dislikes etc, which makes it ahrder to guage whether you'd like the person lol
 
secretspy said:
This is what I had initially thought...but there are still timewasters on there. Guys who are just interested in one thing, nothing serious.

Same thing happened to a colleague of mine.

There was someone who i continued to email after he left match but I realised I wasn't really interested in him and at that same time met someone who I had wanted to get to know, so I was honest with him and he stopped emailing.

He's recently been in contact again and doesn't seem to want to take no for an answer. :confused: I'm glad I gave him an old email address!!
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sounds like fun :/
thankfully it's not me >.> hehe

but yea, I guess you'll get people looking for just sex, which is a little odd, paying £12.99 a month to advertise yourself as a whore lol
 
mac1st3 said:
OkCupid - pretty good, but not that much choice in my area, and it's area search is a little wierd

Plentyoffish - left this one as it was full of chavvy uggos, bottom of the barrell type stuff

Smooch - only recently started using this one, it's not bad, but very limiting about what info to put on people's profiles, also, most people don't actually bother filling out the profile likes/dislikes etc, which makes it ahrder to guage whether you'd like the person lol
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Zoosk as well, though I havent used it, but have seen some adverts for it.
 
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