Does online dating really work?

[egray]

My best friend and his wife met on uDate and have been happily married for several years now. They struggled with visas and such at first as he is British and she is American, but they perservered and are now very happy.

My father met his wife online too, and they are also now happily married.

I think nowadays it's becoming increasingly difficult to meet people. And it seems you can really be very specific with the type of person you want to meet online and should be able to find someone really compatible.

I wonder what happened to the good old-fashioned ways to meet people like going to a pub, club or party?

I studied psychology a few years back and my lecturer had a very interesting take on the rising divorce rate. She pointed out that essentially humans are attracted mainly by smell and specifically pheremones. She blamed the failure of most relationships on the fact that we're being attracted to the wrong people because of perfumes and colognes. Perfumes and colognes have animal pheremomes added to replace the human pheremones they mask, and when you walk into a bar, pub or club, you're being bombarded by a bizarre mix of these animal pheremones, leading to some serious mis-matching! An interesting theory, and something that dating online will avoid!!

[starshard0]

My classmate met his current girlfriend online and they seem to be doing just fine. He said he plans to get married within the next two years. I can't imagine that's the typical result though.

[wealth2wealth]

i know success stories about couples married through ads

[RickLee]

One of my closest friends was single until he was 40. Oh sure, I tried to match him up with women of intelligence, humour, style, education. He turned them all down, and he's a George Kastanzas type!

Finally he did it all himself, found somebody ONLINE, and ended up marrying a woman I had worked with! Total coincidence. They now have a newborn son.

RICKLEE

[hermione]

Despite the success stories, I've watched enough TV to make me think it's not the greatest idea, but I guess as long as you play it safe, keep a cool head and don't rush into anything, it's probably OK. For me, despite living in an area where there is zero social life, I still wouldn't date online. But then I'm not looking for a relationship.

[shenz]

I met my boyfriend online. =P

We were both involved in a forum (just like this one) about cars - back when I thought mechanical engineering was the way to go for me.

It actually took a while - because I was in college up North (North Cali) and he lives in Long Beach. So it was platonic forum friends for a long time.

When I graduated from college - stopped being active in the forum ( because I now have degree in Civil Engineering and enjoy it much more than Mech. E). One day, got an e-mail from him. Then we got an e-mail correspondence going for a while - a good year and a half. Then it moved to phone conversations, every now and then

One day he just asked me out - and the rest is history, as they say.

I guess it can be a hit or miss.... I don't really know. Good luck!

[mikey123]

The posts are right, you can't really expect a fairytale ending to all the people who meet online. But that doesn't mean that happy endings don't happen. It's just a matter of knowing which dating sites to use and the whole approach to online dating. Good luck to the single and looking guys and girls out there! Just a tip, don't put all of your trust to find true love on the internet. It's just one avenue, not the only one.

[yoursavings]

Yes I know plenty of people who have had success that way. It is the same as a bar these days.

[yoonoo]

I have no faith for dating sites but who knows.

[wealth2wealth]

i see online dating for reason marriage purpose