Has anyone ever tried "internet" dating and if so, how did it go?
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I met my spouse on line - dating service.\nWe met about 2 months later, I felt this was the person for me from the first glance as we met at a local restaurant.\nWe were married 6 months later.\nWe've been together (married) now for 4 years.\nWe have our good and bad times, but we are still very much in love and are continuing to plan our futures together.\n\nHope this helps.
458813
I loved this question..gives me a chance to tell my story, lol.  YES! it's very possible!  I'm not saying that ppl don't lie online, and turn out to be someone entirely different when a person meets them, but not everyone is that way.  Here's my story....\n\nI met my husband over a year and a half ago online.  LOL, yes, you read right, my husband!  We just got married March 23.  From the moment we started talking, it was just..."right".  We fell in love almost instantaneously.  We are truly soulmates.\n\nAnyway, I'm all for following your heart.  I can't count how many times friends would tell me to "wait and see" when we met.  But not having met yet didn't matter to us.  I flew to where he lived, he picked me up from the airport, and within an hour we were married.  One look into each other's eyes and everything we had felt for a year and a half had been solidly confirmed.\n\nWhatever you do, follow your heart, follow your instincts.  I did and all of my dreams came true.  I found and married my soulmate...ONLINE!
896892
Just type in "online dating" in any search engine and you will get thousands of possibilities.  Just choose the one that appeals to you....;
988544
I don't encourage dating on the Internet. Please understand that its not that i am against it, but a lot of people have been duped. I am from Nigeria and own two businesses involving IT, one of them is a cybercafe. You need to come and see boys here posing as girls on a lot sites that offers people the opportunity to meet other people. Friendfinder is one of them. They dupe a lot of unsuspecting people. \nI can't blame the sites because there is really no way the can authenticate whether the people are who they say they are or not, but the onus is on those browsing not to give away themselves cheaply. But who will suspect anything when you have been chatting with this person for close to a year and he ask you for a favor, of course you will oblige him. Please be careful. \nYou could try out friendfinder.com if you are bent on meeting someone though.
252795
UMMM THATS A TOUGHY.........I MET MY BOYFRIEND ON YAHOO PERSONALS.  I MET A LOT OF GREAT GUYS ON IT.  OTHER THAN INTERNET, PROBABLY AT SCHOOL, COLLEGE CAMPUSES, CHURCH, MALL....I WOULD STAY AWAY FROM THE BAR SCENE.
41608
Yes and I married him but it was over 9 years ago when the internet was new & less dangerous like it is now.  I wouldnt think of meeting someone on the internet nowadays.  But back then, it was by chance that it happened b/c neither of us was on there looking for anyone & it was my first time on the internet the day I actually met my husband.  We met b/c God put us in the right place, at the right time.
316130
it is possible, but if there is a long distance in between, that can certainly interfere.  Internet dating is dangerous though, you never know who you are really about to meet that first time.  Make sure if you ever plan on meeting someone in person that it is in a public place, have friends with you, and let people know where you are going and what you are doing.\n\nI my area, we just had a 13 year old girl get raped when she went to meet what she though was a 14 year old boy that she had met on myspace.  he was 20.
138893
No. \nI find some girlfriends online, but most of them disappointed me, if you know some decent lady, please refer me. .\n\nRegards
44805
Go to an online dating site.
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I don't have a problem finding love over the internet. After all, I met my husband on the net.\n\nWhat I have a problem with is people who actively go looking on the internet. It's like putting your name in the personals in the newspaper. A sign of desperation. And last I looked desperation isn't a good thing.\n\nThe internet is also dangerous because people don't think when they meet someone on the net. They rush into it talking about how they met only a month ago and have talked for only a week over the phone and want to get married to this person. For some reason, if it's over the net, they don't want to wait until they actually get to know someone.\n\nMy husband and I have known each other for almost 9 years. We knew each other for over three years as friends over the net. Then we spent 5 and a half years "dating" going back and forth between our countries and talking on the phone for hours and hours every night for YEARS. \n\nWe've been married since June.\n\nMost people aren't willing to take the time it takes. It's not like meeting someone face to face. It's alot more dangerous and you don't have the ability to look at each other so you can rely on your own personal perception. \n\nPeople also aren't willing to wait until they're over that "honeymoon" phase of the relationship and work at the communication part. It's why most internet relationships fail. They can't handle the distance and work on the communication.\n\nEven my family, the people who were so sceptical in the beginning and advising me against getting involved with my husband. Even they have admitted that this is probably the healthiest relationship they've ever seen due to the level of communication he and I have. We can even finish each others sentences and yet we will find each other absolutely fascinating. Even after all this time.\n\nIf people would learn to be patient and take it slowly, I wouldn't say anything. But most people seem convinced they want to marry this person after speak to them for only a month or so over the internet. It's ridiculous.
1187839
I had a friend who wanted to meet someone. She was a lot older than me and wasn't the bar type. We put an ad in a newspaper but it was only a local one because we couldn'y afford anything else. Anyway, I came across an internet site that flashed up in a pop up whilst I was downloading music. It was for a dating site called Loopy love. I checked it out and it was free.\nSo I called her and she came over and she asked me to show her what to do. She wasn't computer literate so I made myself a profile, even though I had decided I wasn't dating ever again after a horrible relationship, and she watched me, so she would know what to do. Then we did her one. It was a bit of fun.\nA few hours later, I had one message, from a guy who said he was in the same town as me. As it was an internet thing I knew I had no obligations to him, so I could have a little fun. We emailed back and forth and after about three emails I realised that he sounded my cup of tea.\nWe swapped numbers and I found out he worked on my road. Better still he was the guy I waved at flirtaciously every day on my way into town. Even better still, the photo he sent me confirmed this.\nAnyway, we started dating and now we're getting married!\nI wasn't a computer freak, but I found love by accident haha.
934529
i met my husband on there ... i met a lot of guys but dated about 5 (plus my husband) ... their were 3 that were okay ... one was just rude, the other 3 were well .. it was easy to understand why they were single ... my husband had the most straightforward down to earth ad ... and we clicked ... 4 years after we met we got married
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It was for me, I met my wife on yahoo personals 7 years ago, we dated two years, have been married 5 years and have two small children.  \n\nSo it can work.  There are risks, but there are always risks with any form of dating.
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Yup :) I met my first boyfriend online, as well as my husband. The trick is not to be looking for a mate, but rather for someone interesting; when you look at your watch and realize you've been talking to someone for hours and hours, you've got a good candidate. Good luck!
80250
Hi, i met a guy online and we got on really well, he lived in Sydney Australia, we had been chatting for 6 months then he got a chance to come here to Leeds in the UK and we had 2 days together and to my surprise we didn't get on all that well, we had fun but it was not the same in person as it was when we were chatting online, he then went back home and we never spoke again.\ni am sure people do find love on the internet and have happy lives together.\nyou don't really know someone untill you meet them.\nxx Jo
935228
Ok sounds silly but match.com.  i met my man and guess what he lived in my state, but in a different city but worked in the city where I live. Only 10 minutes away from me.  Really weird how things work. I have been in this area for 10 years and it took match.com for me to actually meet him and find out what a wonderful guy I have been missing. \nFind profiles that talk about a man's personality not about his physical appearance or sex preferences. \nOn the internet there are never enough ways to be careful. Always correspond first through the site, then if you are feeling comfortable either talk on the phone or meet in person but always in a public place.
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My friend did. They were together for 4 years and married for almost a year. I think that relationships that start online have a better survival potential because you bond over similar interests and values while in the "real" world the first attraction is always physical and cannot guaranty that you will have something to hold on to once the initial infatuation is gone. I am dating someone I met online as well and I couldn't be happier.