Posted by mewthree i think my girlfriend showed me a pic of that red dress girl on facebook... if I'm not mistaken she is one of those people who adds everybody as friends or something... I dunno for sure though because I dont have facebook.
Back to online dating websites, I have never been on one but as an outsider who has only heard about them I always assumed they ran you through these criteria matching engines etc... basically, dont they match you up with potential dates by things you have in common etc after completing a sort of exam? And, how well do you guys find they work for if nothing else.... finding interesting people (ie: maybe not a date strictly) I am just curious how well those work.
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you're thinking along the lines of e-harmony or some of the other paid sites. The free ones such as pof, okcupid, (parts of) lava-life are free - but you have to wade through all the trash yourself. Some of them have little personality tests you can take and they'll match up your scores for you but it's nothing 'serious' like when e-harmony runs all of your responses through some magical program that's designed to tell you who to spend the rest of your life with.
Since you've all shared horror stories, I'm going to tell you how I met my best friend (a not-horror story)
Met on POF - met in person in video game store where I bought something, went to movie where he talked loudly -.-' He dropped me off at my gym but I forgot my purchase in the car so ten minutes later I'm training with a room full of very built men and thin, awkward date is standing in the door-frame holding my game.
The guys all laughed when they saw him and he just stood there and said 'you left this with me' and I kissed him when I took it from him. Shut everybody up pretty fast. We decided we were better as just friends and spent a lot of time together and talking online - and now he's one of the most important people in my life. I'm thankful I gave him a shot. At one point after we were really good friends I fell for him pretty hard but he didn't reciprocate and I got over him, then he fell for me. HAHA that always seems to happen to me. Anybody else get that? You're really good friends and then you both have feelings but not at the same time?
PS- now when he talks at movies I shove popcorn in his mouth. problem solved.