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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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)
SarahhBabi 0
not really an FML. I doubt they were too terribly offended. my fiancé, whom I have been with for 3 years, and I met on Facebook, and people say that kind of thing to us all the time. it's really not that offensive.
chicabonita5683 0
I am just curious what you were doing in the bar...if it was looking for a date, I personally consider meeting someone in a bar MUCH more sad than dating online. I guess I am a little bias because I date online. I view the bar scene as a bunch of drunken idiots...not my type.
MoroseMoose 47
You took the words right out of my mouth! Couldn't agree more.
monkeyluvz 7
I met my boyfriend online. So far, hes soo much better then all the guyz i have dated
Bcfrmkc816 17
I think using and paying a dating company is pathetic. Here you are paying someone to set you up to meet someone who may or not have lied. People meet all the time in differnt places so how can you say meeting online is pathetic?
SammaWhamma 3
Good one..
musiciangirl591 16
my boyfriend and i met at my best friend's new year's eve party and got to know each other through facebook and texting and talking on the phone, we've been together for a year, its not sad and pathetic
lilbbybrunette 2
I met my boyfriend through a random Facebook add...I don't think it's sad and pathetic. We've been together for three years and couldn't be happier! It's the generation of technology. This is how people meet these days! :)
sulitak 27
online dating has been very popular for a long time. YDI for being judgmental. I would've never met my husband if it wasn't for online dating. he was stationed five states away from me and his family is 5 hours north of me... There was no chance for our paths to cross not online. I can't imagine life without him.
LissaMccracken 23
I met my boyfriend of over a year on the internet. And you know what? He treats me better than any boyfriend I've ever had.
theofficialkumar 6
You have to watch what you say.