Thread: Do you think that dating sites are actually a hindrance to dating?
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Do you think that dating sites are actually a hindrance to dating?
Posted : 1 Feb, 2021 08:41 AM
Hey...
Maybe I'm a throwback from another era or something (my first pet was a dinosaur...lol), but I can remember a time when "boy meets girl", they eventually go out on a date, there's nervousness, uncertainty, hopefulness, etc., etc., etc.
In other words, things happened gradually, and things either developed or didn't develop naturally over a course of time.
Compare that to dating sites today.
To me, and this is only one man's opinion, they seem to be more like job-recruitment centers:
Here are the job expectations (be my husband one day, look like this, etc., etc.)...
Fill out your resume if you meet the job requirements...
Don't call us, we'll call you...
Where is the spontaneity in any of that?
I guess that what I'm getting at is this:
Do any women here believe in old-fashioned dating...risks and all included?
Do you think that dating sites are actually a hindrance to dating?
Posted : 1 Feb, 2021 12:25 PM
Travelling has never been an issue for me, and, of course, there would be other reasonable things which would have to be worked out after conversing with one another.
The keys words there are "after conversing with one another".
This is probably my fourth time passing through on this particular forum, and, quite frankly, from my own personal experience, it is the worst site by far.
I mean, on all the other sites that I've been on, I've been contacted by a lot of people, and there's at least the potential to actually meet somebody in person some day.
Here?
Again, this is only my own personal experience, but in my four times here, I think that I've only ever had about two real conversations with anybody.
Oh, I've had a lot of contacts from fake accounts that disappear immediately, but that's about it.
Anyhow, I'm glad to see that you've actually spoken to and met people via the online platform.
Me?
I suspect that I'll be gone from here within the next couple of weeks, never to return.
Do you think that dating sites are actually a hindrance to dating?
Posted : 1 Feb, 2021 12:46 PM
I'm guessing (I could be wrong) that the men whom you've spoken to contacted you first, and then you responded back to them.
I'm also guessing (again, I could be wrong) that the norm is for men to contact women, and that they normally only get to converse with them if they choose to respond.
Anyhow, I'm sorry that some of the men were mean.
That's bad enough, generally speaking, but even worse on a site that claims to have Christians on it.
Not blaming the creators of the site themselves, but rather the members who don't behave properly.
Well, if nothing else, I've changed my profile to where it no longer reads like a job posting.
I really only bothered to come back this fourth time because I liked one member here.
She hasn't been online for a while, so she might never return.
Even if she does, she might have no interest in me whatsoever, so, unless something drastic changes soon, I'll be gone with the wind.
I trust that the world will go on just fine without me here...lol.
