Ever date anyone you met on the internet?

[AKAK]

Amen...go to a bar, throw down some lines, get plastered, and whatever follows you home is a bonus.

Of course, sometimes this goes too far and they carry you home... but... shit happens.

OF course it still works... if you take my list of closest friends (Which... for the sake of argument... we'll call the guys who were in my wedding... they had a nice success- if marriage equals success "

Best man- Met his wife while he was drunk in the main library at tOSU... he had just left the bar.

Groomsman 1- Met his wife Drunk in a bar... hired her at his work... and then married her later.

Groomsman 2- Drunk at Maxwell's (Shocking, I know)

Groomsman 3- ReMet his wife (they had known each other previously- but never dated or anything) Drunk in bar in Mansfield (Yet More shocking).

Usher 1- Drunk in bar in Athens... probably the Junction.

Usher 2- At work... not saying he wasn't drunk though.

 

[RugbyBuck]

No, but I met Bucknola for beers.

 

[Buck Nasty]

I guess it goes both ways for my sister-in-law. She is also shallow and materialistic as well. This is one of my favorites.

She met a guy on the Christian chat room who told her he was a Professional Golfer. She gets all excited and immediatley calls my wife. Knowing I have a little background in the golf world she calls me to tell me all about him. She tells me his name and everything, and then at the end of the conversation she slips in "how much money do you think he makes?". So I look him up on the internet and find out he is 33 years old playing on some mini-tour in Florida with career earnings of about $18,000 over 5 years. So I sent her the information while laughing my ass off. Needless to say she broke that one off.

Does it count if you have "done" a chick you have seen online, but have not actually met them. If so, I have done it a lot.

 

[Piney]

I enjoy the internet dating/chat room/ one night hookups thing. After college got tired of meeting drunk women at bars. So went the internet route and struck gold. Dated a few, hooked up with a lot and actually had a few that as soon as dinner was over got the heck out of dodge. It was just too easy.

Also I can say I am one of those "success" stories as my current fiance and me met via match.com. Funny thing is she originally emailed me on January 3rd, 2003. Got the email hungover the next day celebrating the National Championship. Have been dating ever since and will be getting married next June.

 

[jlb1705]

A lot of people knock the Internet dating thing, but it's really quite simple to fall into it without even efforting. I mean, you're in a chat or on a message board, and before you know it it just happens.

No kidding! I mean, just look what happened with Tibor and DiHard! It's just a shame he got stood up like that!

Admittedly, the online thing is something I've tried for myself. It was just harder to meet people after moving back home from Columbus. I couldn't meet people at work (RadioShack - all dudes, and substitute teaching - all kids.) I could meet girls at the bar with my friends, but I live in Huber Heights, so they're all skanks. Don't get me wrong, skanks are nice to have around for a couple hours - but after that, my tolerance for them wears out. It's nice being back in school now. Now I can meet a drunk girl with a diploma, instead of a drunk girl with two toddlers at home.

 

[ScarletBlood31]

it does work, cus most of the girls on whatever site are pretty willing, so if your lookin for a couple of nights out, it works great.

 

[BuckBackHome]

I guess it goes both ways for my sister-in-law. She is also shallow and materialistic as well. This is one of my favorites.

She met a guy on the Christian chat room who told her he was a Professional Golfer. She gets all excited and immediatley calls my wife. Knowing I have a little background in the golf world she calls me to tell me all about him. She tells me his name and everything, and then at the end of the conversation she slips in "how much money do you think he makes?". So I look him up on the internet and find out he is 33 years old playing on some mini-tour in Florida with career earnings of about $18,000 over 5 years. So I sent her the information while laughing my ass off. Needless to say she broke that one off.

I knew a girl who told me the same thing. She met some dude who was a pro golfer and knew I was a sports guy so she asked me if I had ever heard of him. Well, I never did find his name anywhere on the internet. I think he was some dude she met when a tour was in town and he passed himself off as a pro golfer just for a one nighter.

 

[ScarletBlood31]

I knew a girl who told me the same thing. She met some dude who was a pro golfer and knew I was a sports guy so she asked me if I had ever heard of him. Well, I never did find his name anywhere on the internet. I think he was some dude she met when a tour was in town and he passed himself off as a pro golfer just for a one nighter.

thats funny. but cant you pass off as a "pro" golfer if you win any kinda money at all and compete in tournaments?

 

[OSUsushichic]

I met Manfred online (match.com), and we're engaged. I liked that we could chat via email or instant messenger before we ever met in person. It takes a lot of bullshit out of the first date thing.

 

[brutusbabe]

I set up a three way with sushi-chick and brutusbabe, but they made me promise not to tell.

Good thing you enjoyed it the first time, since you told there is no more for you.


I have a friend that was not happy with her current partner so she searched the online personals to find some "excitement" as she put it. She got more than she expected....first 50+ guys responded to her ad (must've had something to do with the advertising for sex), one guy was not her type but he made her laugh so they talked for months online, met, had sex, fell in love and have been together almost 5 years. So now I get to eat crow everytime she talks to me about him because I told her only ugly people and axe murderers use online personals.

 

[buckeyegrad]

I met one girl on-line in January 2003, whom I now happily call my wife. I was having zero luck finding anyone I liked the old fashion way....no one at work or church interested me, my friends were zero help (Thump was too busy calling everyone a homo and Buckeyefool was arguing with managment constantly), and I hate bars and clubs (I'm introverted and get high anxiety around crowds). I figure with no place else to turn, why not try the internet.

We met on christianmatchmaker.com (she was directed their by eHarmony). Although she was from Akron and I lived in Columbus at the time, she was finishing the last semester of her MBA at Ashland and was taking a course at the Columbus branch, so she was in town 2-3 days a week (spending the time at her parents' condo). We met the day before Valentine's Day over coffee at the Barnes and Noble at Easton.....the rest of history.

 

[AKAK]

I met Manfred online (match.com), and we're engaged. I liked that we could chat via email or instant messenger before we ever met in person. It takes a lot of bullshit out of the first date thing.

I can see sushi's bio page right now...

Must love Dogs... blah blah blah... Non Smokers only... blah blah blah... Sunset walks on the beach... Blah blah blah... Must like Independant films... Blah Blah Blah....Must tolerate the Indigo Girls any time of day... blah blah blah... Repuplican Capitalist Warmongering Pigs or Michigan Fans Need not apply....

 

[NorthShoreBuck]

Rugby
Now they will blame me for the divorce.:)

I work with a guy that got married last weekend to a lady that he had met on the intenet over a year ago. They are both a little older, 50's. She is pretty good looking and as normal as anyone on here.

I met my wife at the local pub.

She has a friend that has spent a lot of time meeting men and a few couples over the net. It is a big, crazy world out there.

When I worked at one company we traveled around for a week on a bus visiting manufacturers and distributors. There was one guy that had something lined up every night in the different towns we visited. Those women were skanky.

 

[AKAK]

She is pretty good looking and as normal as anyone on here.

That's not a good sign.

 

[gbearbuck]

Never tried it... I have a friend that meets girls online... he has more stories than the board put together... I cannot believe how "freaky" some people like to get with strangers... I shake my head when he tells about his latest "dates"... he's the type of person that will pay the bill, get up and walk out if he doesn't think the date is going well/has no interest in the girl. I'm half amazed at his actions, and also amazed at stories he tells in regards to the girls.

Some have turned into gf for him... usually out of town girls that cost a fortune to visit (as in the other side of the country), but he's game if he like the girl...

Every single gf I dated in college was directly or indirectly through a friend. It was either a friend of a housemates gf (or dirct friend of a housemate/buddy), or a girl I met at a party (who was there because a friend or friends gf invited her).... When we were at the bars I usually knew a group of folks so anybody I met at the bar more than likely was introduced by another person I knew...