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Online dating?

Doctor Q said:
...and you can use the power of computers to help sift your choices.
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Such a Q-like answer. :D

Let's also not forget that some budding and fully-fledged romances have come about precisely because of MacRumors: Forums

Nice one.
 
Too much opportunity for deception...
How do you really know that I'm not just a smart monkey who knows how to type and stole some pics from some stranger to pose as myself!?
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;) hi sweetie! pm me!!:D :D :D
 
I actually wrote a dating program once, in BASIC. It did a simple correlation between answers on a questionnaire. I gave the questionnaires to my friends to get some test data. To got sample questions from three real dating services, but I used fake names (two male, one female) on their sign-up form so I wouldn't get on their mailing lists under my real name. The whole thing was just for the programming fun, not a business I was trying to run, and nothing further came of the effort.

I still arrange dates online, however. Just the other day I iChatted my wife, who was upstairs while I was downstairs, and asked if she wanted to go out to lunch. She said OK, so that online personal encounter had a happy ending! Does that raise the online dating success rate to 66.7%?
 
Blue Velvet said:
Let's also not forget that some budding and fully-fledged romances have come about precisely because of MacRumors: Forums
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Really??? I'll go and make us a brew, pull up a seat and do tell all. ;)
 
iGav said:
No one tells me anything. :rolleyes: :(
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Awwww... but unless the parties involved feel like sharing their good fortune, I don't feel I can talk about their private lives here, but off-hand I can think of 3 couples that have hooked up because of MR; one gay, two hetero.

You can still make that brew though. Mmmm... tea.
 
I guess my biggest worry is finding some guy who is a total pyscho and is just preying on ppl online. Any way to avoid that?

Thanks for all the replies....interesting to read!!!
 
I know for a fact that online dating is far from a sham. There are individuals who use it for the wrong reasons, but you can usually weed those out.

The major benefits that it allows you is screening your "dates" by having a conversation via anonymous email and getting to know them and what they're like. And it also allows you to meet people you wouldn't normally meet that are outside your usual circles of friends.

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Blue Velvet said:
Awwww... but unless the parties involved feel like sharing their good fortune, I don't feel I can talk about their private lives here...
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Mmmmmm gossip.

How do you you find about all these relationships, are you on an email mailing list or something??
 
Match-makey things don't work because they try to match people up based on too many things they have in common or say they are looking for, I find that counter to real life experience where I 100% believe that opposites attract. Having said that I think online dating sites are a good thing because you can read someones profile and instantly have some kind of opener or conversation starter. They are great for chatting and meeting people, but of everyone I know who has met their significant other online, it was never through online dating sites, but through open chat sites and forums
 
srf4real said:
Too much opportunity for deception...
How do you really know that I'm not just a smart monkey who knows how to type and stole some pics from some stranger to pose as myself!?
baldmonkeyue6.gif


;) hi sweetie! pm me!!:D :D :D
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Is that George Bush? It can't be. You said 'smart' monkey :rolleyes:
 
miloblithe said:
How is it a sham or a joke? We're all just people. Whether you meet someone by internet, in the "real world", through friends, in a class or through work, whatever, all that matters is the person.
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I find it hard to imagine that you could meet somebody and have a deep relationship without ever seeing them in person. I personally think a big part of attraction is the physical appeal.
 
Doctor Q said:
I have two friends who found spouses online. One marriage worked out well and the other failed, so that's absolute proof that your chances for finding a lifetime partner online are exactly 50%. Note: That figure has a rather large margin of error. Your results may vary.
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Well, a margin of error of plus minus 50% really helps, haha! What did you get on your test? a 50, plus minus 50 ... I'm just playing with ya ... don't get mad at me :)
 
tobio said:
Match-makey things don't work because they try to match people up based on too many things they have in common or say they are looking for, I find that counter to real life experience where I 100% believe that opposites attract.
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Hence the SNL skit about Me-Harmony.com.

fuzzwud said:
Well, a margin of error of plus minus 50% really helps, haha! What did you get on your test? a 50, plus minus 50 ... I'm just playing with ya ... don't get mad at me :)
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I enjoyed your post 100%, with a large margin of error.
 
Anyone have any suggestions for some of the "better" sites? Yahoo! Personals, match.com, eHarmony, etc.
 
savar said:
I find it hard to imagine that you could meet somebody and have a deep relationship without ever seeing them in person. I personally think a big part of attraction is the physical appeal.
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The physical thing IS a big part of attraction, but it's only part. If you can hit it off with someone before you see them and then you meet them and they're gorgeous you've got a partner, score! If you meet them and find they ming then all you've found is a friend, score!
 
But how disappointing would it be to be chatting with this person who you think could be a potential mate, and find out that you're as attracted to her as you are to a bowl of jelly. :eek:
 
Abstract said:
But how disappointing would it be to be chatting with this person who you think could be a potential mate, and find out that you're as attracted to her as you are to a bowl of jelly. :eek:
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Probably less disappointing than seeing someone really hot, dancing with them all night, and then talking to them and finding out that they are intellectually repulsive.

Meeting the right person is hard, and it takes time.
 
Abstract said:
But how disappointing would it be to be chatting with this person who you think could be a potential mate, and find out that you're as attracted to her as you are to a bowl of jelly. :eek:
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Mmmmmmmm jelly, yum.
 
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