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Dating website
What do you think about dating website?
I have found a dating website where you can sign up from the age of 16, which is quite young for advertising your self on a website. Free UK Online Dating & Flirting - THE 100% Free UK Dating Site. Free Online Dating on Flirtbox UK - Dating UK for free! Are dating website a good thing or a bad thing.... place your comments and get arguing XD Demondog5 |
I met more friends than partners off them. They're nice if you're in a smaller dating pool or if you're shy but there's also a lot of really odd people on there, like with any website, common sense has to be used.
I met this one girl that stands out in particular on a dating site. She knew me for less than two weeks, became way overly attached and I found her camped out on my doorstep at 5am when I was leaving for work. She was saying how she didn't want to be alone and she wanted to come in. I told her no and to go home. To put it short, she went crazy and the cops were called. That put me off of dating sites for a while. |
I think they're okay. You get crazy and dangerous people in any setting. Same principles apply with dating sites or meeting someone in a random place, be smart and careful.
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Kids use the internet for dating even without websites specifically tailored to that purpose. So I don't see a problem with sixteen-year-olds using a dating site.
I'm 19, and I've never been a member of one. I think I may have wanted to in my early adolescence, but as I am now in a relationship I'm no longer interested. |
Like people have said before me, there are some nutty people on dating websites, but you'll find those anywhere. The thing to remember is that people who end up on dating websites...a lot of the time there's a reason why they couldn't meet someone in real life, if you catch my drift.
Also, like others have said, teens tend to find bf's/gf's online anyway, but I don't think kids should be using the internet to date. It's just my opinion. Get out and work those social skills in the real world before you resort to the internet, is my opinion. |
I don't really like dating sites. I don't find them very effective, too many crazies or people just looking to get laid. Plus, it's hard to find a good one. Free ones have the benefit of being free, but free opens it up to more bad apples. Pay ones want your money for no guarantee of finding a good match, but making it for pay adds a perhaps a slightly higher chance of weeding out bad apples. And then there are the in between sites that piss me off the most. They're "free" but if you want to actually contact anyone you have to pay...so then what's the point? So nice of you to let me make a profile but I can't reach out to any of your users so it's a waste.
I usually join those sorts of sites then never look back. I personally don't have the time or drive to troll through profiles and I hate PM message tag. My profile is there just to be there, maybe an amazing person will see it and contact and I'll happen to see it. Maybe not. But I usually have better luck finding partners via common interests and through being friends. As for letting kids the age of sixteen on a dating site filled with adults...don't really agree with it. |
I've just spent the past half an hour rating guys on there. I must say, it was pretty fun. However, there was actually only one of them that I'd say was my type. He was lush though. :drool:
Anyway... I have no problem with dating sites. If people want to use them to find love, then more power to them. Meeting people offline isn't always possible for some, due to work reasons and lack of free time. As for one that lets sixteen year olds on, again, I have no issue with that. If people are going to look online for relationships, they'll find a way of doing it. The majority of teenagers use IMVU to find boyfriends or girlfriends, so why not let them onto dating sites. What people need to remember is that this is a UK dating site where the age of consent and legal marriage is sixteen. There's nothing wrong with letting them on when they're legally able to do so. I've never used a dating side (bar the rating I just did, but I never actually signed up) so I can't really put much of an input in on the actual use. Also as for dating sites for teens, there's a site called Snog, Marry, Avoid that teenagers use to hook up too. My friend uses that... :roll: |
What happened to social scenes?! :gonk:
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I went to a college with primarily men. The ratio was about 1 girl to every 3 or 4 guys. I didn't need a social scene >_>;;
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I'm a member of OkCupid. I joined for the quizzes, but I get a lot of entertaining messages from creepy middle-aged men. :lol:
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I did that too! I loved the quizzes! :lol:
I recently got rid of my account though because people IRL started finding me on it o_o |
A dating site with quizzes? :eager: What sort of quizzes?
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All kinds of quizzes! My favourite is one called The Personality Defect Test.
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I might make a fake birthday so I can go on. :ninja:
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i use differnet ones but indeed they arent that great to find some one more like a friend finder
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I can say that one site I will never use again for dating is Craigslist. There's some rather....interesting people on there. I only ended up meeting one woman off there and she seemed pretty normal but the messages that I got from other people were so off the wall it was kind of scary.
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I can't imagine joining a dating website and actually meeting the random people off of them (it's hard enough for my friends to drag me out of the house, let alone a stranger), but the quizzes are tempting.
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I dunno... My whole opinion of them is pretty neutral. People seem to think that they're a cesspool for the crazies of the world (I wouldn't know because I've never used one), but I've seen plenty of crazies who don't use dating sites. As far as finding a decent partner is concerned, in ANY situation you just need to use basic common sense. So yeah, dating sites are okay.
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I met my boyfriend on a dating website. We've been together over a year now. I was first attracted to his strikingly good looks and his use of proper English. He's a very good writer, very intelligent. We went on some dates, moved in together, and the rest is history. I love him.
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I personally wouldn't encourage any 16 year old i knew to look online for that kind of companionship. I've only ever really been active on one, for about four months, more for meeting people i had something in common with than anything. The people i spoke to were far from crazy, but i think it really does depend on the site you're on. Mine was very niche in comparison to most out there, and not likely to attract a lot of people to start with.
E harmony is meant to have very good personality quizzes if i remember rightly. Overall, i couldn't say yay or nay towards them as i've not dabble enough, but i've heard stories in support and against them. If i had to choose i think i'd stay away from them. |
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Aah, I just don't trust dating sites. I'm not so hard up on finding a partner that I'll go to the extreme of online dating. Plus there are so many weirdos out there on the web. Yes, I realize even offline there are weirdos, but I think that if you are in a college like atmosphere you'll more likely find a partner there than an online site with people claiming their 22 years old, has a so and so personality when there's a 50% chance (give or take) that they arent who they say they are. I'm sure there are successful relationships from these sites, but I've never found I needed someone in my life to go and search for someone. If I meet someone that I fall in love with; great! If I don't, oh well! Not the end of the world :3
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Sun:: From what I was told, they only pair opposite sex couples, without exception.
I've never been a part of a dating website because (as silly as this is going to seem after what I'm about to say) I don't trust them. However....I met two of my boyfriends here on Mene. :XD One was long distance for a year, and then we broke up, and the other one is my fiance now. We've been together for a year and lived together for six months. ^^ |
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