Re: Internet Dating
I'm trying to remember which site either had advertisements for or it was an advertisement against one of the sites. Might have been against Match.Com or Cupid.com (those ones are big in my area) and it shows this guy standing there, looking at a playboy or something and he closes it up and shrugs and goes "Nope, still gay." And it was about how one of the sites didn't cater to same sex relationship finding.
On a note related to the topic...yeah, I've heard success stories about online dating. My mother tried out one of the sites (did the free bit, where you could see potential matches, even message them, but if you wanted to arrange dates, you had to pay for a subscription.) Every now and then, she'd call me in to show me some of their "great" matches for her. Not to mention it was through one of those sites that she met a guy that basically got a little stalkerish on her. They talked on the phone a couple of times and went out on a date once and she admitted to me that he made some rather off-color comments around her. Mom decided that she just still wasn't ready to do something like this (she's been a widow for five years now) so she went over to the guy's house to talk to him about it (which my aunt lambasted her for) and he got sort of needy/clingy/"It's me, isn't it?" on her, called her twice more after that (the one time, he got to talk to me and all he got was "She's not home." and he's trying to get all chummy with *me*), and then sent her an email informing her of what he found when he searched her on google because he was "concerned about it." Apparently he'd googlestalked her back when they first talked, which nowadays isn't *all* that strange, but for him to keep it up... Thankfully, mom knows this P.I. and he gave her a reply to give the guy via email that, in short, told him "You're being a creep. Stop bothering me." Though nicer than that *laughs*
Best thing that came out of it was when he made a comment to mom about her not being worried about going out with him. She just sort of smiled and said "Well, I have people that know I'm here." And he sort of dismissed it and went "Friends, huh?" "Oh no. Well, the friends know. First, you'd have to deal with my daughter. The friends would get what was left..."