So I'm getting a little back into the online dating thing. I've had a profile for a while, but have done very little with it. But for some reason I've been getting a lot of winks and even a few unsolicited e-mails lately. I've replied to four e-mails with e-mails of my own, but have not gotten any subsequent replies back. I'm not sure what it is about these e-mails that is scaring the women off, and I'm hoping they're just slow to reply.
Then I read her post. Oy. I guess I've been going about this all wrong.
Heh, I'm just kidding about that. I try to make my replies full of humor, questions that show interest, and small bits of information about myself. I'm trying to be natural but I hate this second stage in the process, the stage where I'm thinking, "Well, we've both look at our profiles and liked what we saw. Might as well meet in person, eh?" but you still have to go through some chatty small talk over e-mail that I'm not very good at. (Apparently not, as I'm getting no replies!) Still, I hope something comes of one of these eventually. While I'm pretty choosy about which profiles I've replied to, that doesn't take away from the fact that it has been quite a while since I've been on a first date and I'm getting excited about the prospect.
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4 comments:
Are you kidding about being choosy regarding the profiles you reply to? Why? You should follow the Starbucks store placement model and "flood the zone." If I were you I'd be replying to every half-interesting sounding broad out there. Who cares if none of them pan out? How bad can the worst ones be? Wouldn't they at least be good for some funny stories? Isn't having fun what it's all about? While I've never been able to (morally) participate in these online dating things, I find it interesting that people take online dating so seriously. Everyone should lighten up about it and let the chips fall where they may.
Aw, the online dating world is pretty decent- even the email I got, while over the top, is all good fun. At least the guy was attractive, if a little forward.
It beats the bar scene! :)
How you're not married already is beyond me. Girls in Baltimore must be dumb, deaf, and blind. Seriously...you're like the PERFECT man. Just hang in there -- you'll find a woman who's worthy of you soon enough.
I did both online dating and newspaper classified dating. You get more dates with newspaper ads. You have to take out your own ad, and you have to write a good one. I viewed online dating as kinda the extra "maybe" compared to newspaper ads. Also, don't bother to reply to ads. Take out your own and wait for replies to your ad. Women literally get hundreds of responses to their ads. You might get four or five.
Eventually I married a woman I met on the subway. The best way to meet women is to perfect the art of walking up to them in public places (subways, grocery stores, sidewalks) without them thinking you're a robber or bad guy or whatever. Then, you have to be able to get them to give you their phone number _quickly_. I have some strategies for that.
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