Today, I met a really nice couple at a bar. We talked and the conversation eventually drifted towards online dating. I casually commented that hooking up through the internet was sad and pathetic. Turns out they met on Myspace. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was at dinner with my boyfriend and his family. We were talking about relationships, and I commented on how online dating was the dumbest thing ever. His mom and step-dad went on to tell me how they had met through an online dating service. FML
Today, I went on a date with someone I've been talking to online for weeks. Unfortunately, it turns out they'd used old photos and misrepresented themselves, and I didn't find them attractive at all. Even I'm not that desperate. We ended up having an awkward dinner and I couldn't wait for it to be over. FML
Today, I went on a date with a guy I met online. It was going OK, until he started asking me if he should stick with the site until he finds the right person. I guess I know how he feels about me, at least. FML
Today, I made a friend on an online chat. We got along fairly well and even traded Facebook accounts. I found out that the two of us had a lot of very surprising things in common. We were the same age, we were from the same school, and we even had the same boyfriend. FML
Today, I declared I was done with online dating after several disasters. My friend set me up with a friend of her husband's. Turns out he's one of the men who rejected me on the website. He laughed when he saw me and said, "Well, this is awkward" and left. FML
Today, I finally met the guy I've been getting to know online in person for a date. When we saw each other, we both realized that we had heavily Facetuned our profile pictures. The awkward silence that followed was the longest five minutes of my life. FML
Today, I tried instant online video dating for the first time, after not having much luck on other dating sites. The first date was kind of awkward, and "ended" with a kind of fade out and I could hear her chatting with someone else. "Hella awkward." Fair enough. "But was he cute? - No." FML
Today, I finally got the chance to meet this wonderful guy I met on a dating site. She was very excited to see me, too. FML
Today, I re-joined a popular on-line dating service. I'd first signed up 3 years ago and was matched with a wonderful woman. After about a year, she broke up with me. I was devastated. After two years of trying to win her back, I'd decided it's best just to move on. Guess who they matched me with? FML
Today, I went to a coffee shop to meet an online date. I couldn't spot him, so he eventually came up and introduced himself. It seems his on-line picture must have been taken before I was born. I spluttered "This isn't going to work," and promptly scuttled out. FML
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Top comments
Zirafina 0
One out of eight marriages last year were people who met online. I met my boyfriend online and we've been together for over three years and are now engaged. What's your way of meeting people? Going to bars? I think that's a little more sad and pathetic.
adelaide_evening 0
In your defense, I used to think the same thing. Then I went on a date with a guy I met online who seemed like he had some potential. He was by far the biggest douche bag I've ever met in my entire life. I think it fails more often than it works out, but it still works for some.
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Comments (108)
flamacue40 0
this aint your fault. it is pretty sad and pathetic meeting online, but on myspace??? jeez
schwurlie 0
i met my boyfriend via deviantart and i can safely say neither of us are sad, friendless, or unattractive. i never planned on ever meeting him (we lived in different countries and i wasn't interested in any kind of online 'relationship'), but then i ended up actually moving to the UK and just figured 'why not?'. ffs, it's 2009. meeting people online isn't pathetic.
fsamslife92 8
I totally agree with you. Besides it being sad and pathetic, it's dangerous to meet people in real life if you met them on the internet, dating site or not.
bassmaster_pat 0
I met my wife on the internet too shitface too all the others who say it's pathetic: get a life, get laid or stop being a christian!!! **** it *walks away*
Sadiilya 0
Uh, dating on the internet isn't sad and pathetic. It's still love. right? : One of my friends has met a girl on the internet. After a few months, they said they loved each other. They've been together for a few years now, got married, and moved in with each other. They even have twins!
Rland09 0
wow... this sucks friend. I bet you had a friend around too, one that was warning you not to say it. You should have just listenened to him.
24788 7
People use sites all the time to help find matches for themselves.
lolPayal17 0
Honestly who cares where you meet them? Online or not, if it works for you then work with it.
Shannn 0
I personally find online dating very pathetic.
RyanKaufman 7
People who never bother to try dating online always think it's "sad" or "pathetic" and then when they try it most of them change their mind. That's not a coincidence.