Respected members,
Share your opinion and experience in online dating.
Main advantages and main disadvantages! Share your views.
Enjoy!

Human is very strange animals sometimes,you see they don’t like to talk to friends but like to talk online ,with new partners or stranger people;sometimes just say what they want to say;share their private life including sex experience etc;or plays jokes on others ;as we sometimes need feel free and no responsibility;or say something hidden in us ;

Not date on this app till now

The vast majority on here don't want to meet face to face

It's seriously hard. Most guys don't want to have decent conversations. They just want to move the car to the 'chat' to another platform. Why? Why? How many women has one guy migrated all the random women he chats up? What if we don't match and now I have to delete you or black you like, is this the point of being here? To have a whole contact list of random women you've collected on a dating app to keep you busy when you're bored one day??

I completely ignore such requests. You don't even know my name but I must allow you into my private space.. Nah. Men, please do better.

I dated 2 guys I met online (not at the same time). One for almost 2 yrs so it worked for me. I chatted with both for months before meeting them so I knew we would be a ‘match’.

My friend also met her partner online and they are now married.

I've never "dated" anyone online?

I've talked with some pretty good people during the last 25 years from all over the world but have actually met very few. I'm still in contact with a few of them. We have a quite interesting online friendship.
But, all that, is merely being pen pals.

I'm now 'seeing/dating' a woman I located nearly two years ago using Mingle2 but our relationship is not online its in real life.
Our first online interactions were short, to the point and we both put aside our fears and apprehension because we knew the online thing is a tool not a date. We met face to face rather quickly and it worked out for us.
I've had similar meets with other women I found online which did not work.
The ones that didn't work, didn't work because the person was not who she pretended to be during our online interactions.
In other words - They Lied!

The term "Online Dating" is misleading.
There are unscripted interactions between two people in "dating" which can't happen over an electronic connection.
While Online....Dating sites provide you with a tool to find possible dates, the actual dating will never happen unless the two of you actually meet in person. Dating is real-time in-person interaction.
You could be interacting with anyone online. If you never meet, you can never actually know reality from fantasy.

Many people get lost in the online interactions.
They substitute reality for virtual.
Most will never agree to meet you in person.
Even phone calls and video chats can be scripted and played by actors.
If you can't see it, touch it, taste it, smell it and hear it in real time its not reality.
You can't use your five senses over a TCP/IP/Wireless connection.

The function of an online dating tool is to find someone you can meet in realtime face to face...then the actual dating occurs or doesn't.
Just make sure you use common sense and follow personal protective advice when you do meet.

Choose Wisely

Online dating is an oxymoron. That's my experience.

Agree with you...dating is real life interaction...if both potential partners are sincere they will have no problems with meeting in person even if serious distance in between. No sense using online tools if you are not ready to elevate it to real life

Very frustrating to say the least. I meet many members who express interest and then they go MIA. Some will simply text and never call. Some simply stop texting. If you're no longer interested, why can't you just say so? Some men have no intention of meeting. Why not just tell me this? My time is valuable and so it's very frustrating when someone cannot see that and actually think it's okay to waste someone's valuable time. I'm 46, not 26. Some men are very disrespectful and only do so on here because they think that the forum being a site instead of face-to-face that somehow that gives them permission to talk to women in degrading manners. Just like showing pics of your penis. If I did not ask to see your penis or consent to see it, it's rude, inconsiderate, offensive, and very presumptuous. I'm frustrated when a man does not assume I have anything to offer and goes straight to sex with his initial email. Some don't even say hello :o If I wanted sex and being a woman, I don't need a site. Just saying... I have had some good experiences, but not as many good experiences as bad ones. Thank God I'm not paying for the nonsense!

Well think it isn't too difficult to detect time wasters. Time wasters exist online but in real life too. It is matter of experience to detect them efficiently.
Regarding being rude and disrespectful I can say some members use anonymity that online platform offers I wrong way, just to offend other members! It is unacceptable in my view.