The real moral of this story is never tell anyone anything or it'll end up on the internet. Who wants to be known, even anonymously, as the guy who's dating someone from match.com, or the woman who wet herself?
That's generally sound advice, but about the guy who's dating someone from match.com...I think the stigma of online dating has pretty much completely dissipated, no?
Yes, I just heard that a guy who I was friends with in college got arrested for a DUI in Florida last night (which isn't funny, but rather quite serious) but Florida kindly puts peoples mug shots online, and his is so hilarious that I considered linking to it on my blog before I realized that he may not want people to know about the DUI.
3: No, I don't, which is why people who use online dating services always post in their profiles that they're doing it as a joke or to amuse themselves to offset the tacit admission that they're doing it because they're sooooo verrrry desperate.
So last night, I went to a wedding with my girlfriend, whom I met on lavalife, and it turned out that the bride and groom also met on lavalife. And it was clear from the multitude of speeches that there still is a certain stigma about meeting on online dating services compared to more socially acceptable ways of meeting people such as hooking up with your best friend's ex or being blind drunk at a bar and going home with the closest warm body.
So one should meet women on match.com but never go on actual dates with them? That doesn't seem like the kind of strategy which pays off.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 08- 6-05 4:39 PM
The real moral of this story is never tell anyone anything or it'll end up on the internet. Who wants to be known, even anonymously, as the guy who's dating someone from match.com, or the woman who wet herself?
Posted by Isle of Toads | Link to this comment | 08- 6-05 8:51 PM
That's generally sound advice, but about the guy who's dating someone from match.com...I think the stigma of online dating has pretty much completely dissipated, no?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 08- 6-05 8:53 PM
Yes, I just heard that a guy who I was friends with in college got arrested for a DUI in Florida last night (which isn't funny, but rather quite serious) but Florida kindly puts peoples mug shots online, and his is so hilarious that I considered linking to it on my blog before I realized that he may not want people to know about the DUI.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 08- 6-05 9:17 PM
3: No, I don't, which is why people who use online dating services always post in their profiles that they're doing it as a joke or to amuse themselves to offset the tacit admission that they're doing it because they're sooooo verrrry desperate.
Posted by Isle of Toads | Link to this comment | 08- 7-05 7:13 AM
So last night, I went to a wedding with my girlfriend, whom I met on lavalife, and it turned out that the bride and groom also met on lavalife. And it was clear from the multitude of speeches that there still is a certain stigma about meeting on online dating services compared to more socially acceptable ways of meeting people such as hooking up with your best friend's ex or being blind drunk at a bar and going home with the closest warm body.
Posted by guilty | Link to this comment | 08- 7-05 8:12 AM