Online Dating Sheds Its Stigma as Losers.com

[hadrons]

nice little article, but if you want to read some great stuff about online dating, go to www.waytoopersonal.com ... I kept falling off my seat laughing at the stories.


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Online dating, once viewed as a refuge for the socially inept and as a faintly disrespectable way to meet other people, is rapidly becoming a fixture of single life for adults of all ages, backgrounds and interests. More than 45 million Americans visited online dating sites last month, up from about 35 million at the end of 2002, according to comScore Media Metrix, a Web tracking service. Spending by subscribers on Web dating sites has soared, rising to a projected $100 million or more a quarter this year from under $10 million a quarter at the beginning of 2001, according to the Online Publishers Association.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/national/29DATE.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5038&en=df0bbe97cc7e9b8f&ex=1058155200&partner=ASAHI

Of course, this is the best line:

"It's amazing how all women say they're slender when a lot of them are overweight," said one 79-year-old Manhattan man who lists himself as 69 on his Match.com profile.

LOL, I guess he tells the chicks that he look 59

[uberotto]

1. Glad to hear it...

My wife and I met through an Online Dating service almost four years ago. But because of the stigma of Online Dating, whenever anyone asks how we met, we have to try to come up with a story that isn't exactly a lie, but isn't exactly the truth either. We usually just tell everyone that we met in an Online Chat room, like on AOL.

[StaggerLee]

2. I haven't had any success

With online dating services or online personal ads.
I did join a matchmaker service but I have had only one date. She was nice but we didn't hit it off. I am expecting another referral soon. Hopefully it will be in my snail mailbox when I get home from work.