My Online Dating Experience
I’m out of town right now with a dial-up connection that makes me want to kill myself. How did I ever cope before DSL? Since I can’t bear to deal with this anymore, I’m not going to be posting for awhile. Instead, I’ll direct you to my secret blog…
Last fall, it sort of hit me that my “go out and meet dudes” friends had long-ago moved away (or gone into rehab) and great eligible bachelors were not going to magically appear in my apartment so I decided to give Match.com a try. It was actually my second attempt on Match, having tried it for a month several years ago. I picked a really bad time to join- just before the holidays. Who wants to miss the annual airing of “A Year Without A Santa Clause” to meet some freaky chick online?
I wrote a blog for the duration of the membership under the pseudonym “Fifa” (when I did the USO tour in Korea, my friend and I kept seeing “Fifa” signs everywhere and we created a character with that name. It was later we learned that’s the name of the international soccer organization). There were a couple reasons for the fake name. For one thing, I didn’t want people finding me on Match and sending me joke letters. I also thought I might censor myself if my identity was known. Turns out I didn’t and I really didn’t write anything I’d mind anybody knowing came from me.
I’ve decided to share the blog with the readers here. Unlike the poor suckers who faithfully read that blog daily waiting for me to find true love (yeah, that didn’t happen), you get to know the outcome before you get started. In the end, nothing happened. And I don’t mean nothing “much” happened, literally nothing happened. I was more talk than action and got kind of bored with it about three weeks in. So it was basically me ripping on the guys that wrote to me and me offering very little in terms of my own flaws. But it’s my blog; I can do that.
It’s virtually unchanged, though I moved the site and had to remove some polls because of format problems.
For any of you who are interested in reading it, you can find it here: My Online Dating Experience.
Enjoy. Or not. But it’s all you get from me at least until after the Fourth of July.
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I had a wonderful online dating experience. I know most people don’t but that is how I ended up in Sweden. It isn’t like I PICKED this place but I am glad I found him
A friend of mine just signed up for Match.com, and she was wondering what to expect. May have to direct her to the Fifa blog.
I just wanted to share in regards to your statement about dial-up and how it almost seems impossible with the speed of our internet connections these days how we ever pulled through. A few days ago I was downloading the beta version of Windows Vista which is a 3.15gb file, very huge by any standard to download something that big. The funny thing is it only took an hour. Eight years ago it probably would have taken four months running the download 24/7.
Cheers, first visit to your site…digging it! :mrgreen:
A long distance relationship isn’t easy but it’s not impossible. I did it for 2 1/2 years and we’ve now been together for 13. You have to accept that you aren’t together and cherish the moments that you are - through email, chat, video or phone. Flat screen can lead to misunderstandings so don’t be tough on each other.
I have a pretty large experience in dating and I have had 2 girlfriends. 1st one 3 years and a half, the 2nd 2years and 1/2 and I am still with her hehe. It’s about taking the online dating more serious, considering and following the same responsibilities in online dating as in the one in real life. You *CAN* find a great great girl/bfr for you because duh, you can search globally. And not only geeks are out there, but great people that are looking forward in meeting you. I have met mine and I’m 101% happy. Cheers!
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