Does online dating really work?

[stellazhang]

i dont have such experience.but i think can go to club/party to date.

[lindachild]

Well, there are some success stories to some, but you should be judicious and be cautios in giving out personal information as phishing scams and identity theft abound online.

[hazystargazer]

I met my husband through an online dating site in 2004 (the personals on Nerve.com). He had never met anyone online before me, and I've been dating online since 1995 (I don't remember what sites I used back then, but that was before putting pics of yourself online was common).

I think going online is a great way to meet potential dates. You can search for people based on your interests, opportunity to meet someone who'd you would never otherwise come across IRL, etc. (My hubby is a nerd/computer geek, has awesome taste in music/movies/books, hates sports, and loves trying new restaurants...just the type of guy I was looking for!) Just meet somewhere in public the first couple of times and see how it goes...be cautious and go with your gut! I encouraged my best friend to do the same, and she has dated several men through Plentyoffish and Yahoo (she's still single, but I tell her to persevere!) Many people hate the bar/club/party scene, and meeting someone by chance is a crap shoot at best. When I was single, almost every guy I saw at the grocery store or the park was wearing a wedding band, and the dudes I met at bars weren't really the relationship type. It probably didn't help that I live in a smallish/medium-sized, very family-friendly city (unlike a larger city where there are probably more single people out and about), and I'm pretty shy, so chances are I wouldn't just go up to a random stranger and start a conversation, hoping he was single.

Meeting people through friends is good too...I met my first serious boyfriend through my sister, and another guy I dated for a few months I met through a friend. But I've had the most luck meeting men online, and it worked out for me in the end!

[dwiads]

I have seen one of my friend find love at dating site.
also I have seen many of my friends find love through social network site like friendster or myspace. social network is free to use and I think more valuable.

[trustno1]

Originally Posted by egray

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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!!

That is a theory from the top authority on scent/olfactory research...Rachel Herz "The Scent of Desire". Here is a press announcement on her book release.
http://rachelherz.com/Web%20Uploads/...Release_RH.pdf

My educational background is psych. That stuff fascinates me.

Hey, want someone to "like" you? Put a little vanilla oil on your wrists or neck. The smell takes everyone back to the security of breastfeeding when they were infants.

Unfortunately, many of the basic tools we use as humans to measure attraction are lost in cyberspace communications.

[FinanciallySMART]

Online dating does work but it takes trust, dedication and of course finance. The internet is not like in the 90's it is full of scammers and you have to be careful who you are associating yourself with. I have read successful stories of persons getting married after finding their partners on the internet. My advice is this seek friendship first don't rush.

[talkwithtim]

I've had several long-term relationships that started by meeting online. I'm still friends with one of them and we've known each other over 12 years now.

Dating people you meet online works like any other situation. You have to be smart, start slow, weed out the losers, and try a few dates before you find a person that's compatible.

I knew a guy who met his fiance on World of Warcraft, she moved up here to live by him and they eventually got married. Crazy right?

Any more crazy than meeting in a drunken haze at a bar?

[popcornannie]

yes i think it does

a few of my friends found their spouses online

u just have to weed out the undesirables

[macro01]

Some people meet other people through this websites, but I would like to meet a person in real life not in a digital streaming video or image
If you would like to know more people so you could find the right one, join to a party have fun and maybe you will find what you are looking for.

[stevie teever]

ya i love online dating...........
any girl want
private message me

i am looking for a good partner...
presently single