Bells Posted March 27, 2009 Posted March 27, 2009 I was reading the "Lying about Age" thread and it's got me thinking. I was telling my female friend about online dating, and she works with a bunch of single ladies, that she tells me that do a LOT of online dating, in fact she's heard about how some of them just do it for the free meals. And that how REAL life dating might be easier....now I'm starting to beg to differ. Anyhow, she invites a couple of her friends out to our circle of friends social/restaurant gathering. Now, I have to say, the guys in our group are probably average Joes. And I have to admit, the women she brought from work with her, were rather attractive women. But real big snobs from the way they treated people with men trying to introduce themselves and make small talk. The women wound up leaving early and giggled at the co-worker that brought them there, "We're going to "X" part of town where the rich good looking guys are...." So they bolted early. Then she tells me, "Yeah, they probably went home online to chat with their men or something" Which got me thinking of women I talked to. There was this one woman on Yahoo personals a while back. There's a singles group at the non-denom church that I used to go to, and she mentioned she did go there.....but, she stopped going because of all the not so attracative and/or socially awkward men there....and actually PREFERS the ONLINE dating site instead. I am starting to notice a trend of women now PREFERRING online dating. Lately I have been hearing that a lot of women don't like being approached by men in public places like grocery stores or a Home Depot or Gym or whatever. Is the online dating world NOW their sanctuary? You see men or women (well mostly women, because men do the approaching) cannot hit the delete button or ignore button if a guy at the refreshment table or line at the grocery store cashier tries to talk to them, they're a "captured audience" and have to bear talking to him. I heard a woman state the likes online dating over real lif dating because SHE can pick and choose and control WHOM contacts her. It's a controlled enviornment. WIth that said, would that be considered unhealthy. I am now seeing a PREFERENCE MORE towards ONLINE dating than to real life interactions. Anyone starting to see this? (Now I know some of you DON'T even to online dating, which makes the subject moot) but perhaps you know people or ran into people like this?
2sure Posted March 27, 2009 Posted March 27, 2009 Bells - I think the preference towards on line dating as opposed to "cold calling" has been well established for the past ...10 years. Used to be the preference was to meet people through other social networks like friends, associates. Because of the added security and screening process , with practice the average person can increase their odds of...if not meeting MORE people, then at least meeting people more likely to suit them.
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