Confession
So, my entry yesterday on how my romantic/social life is still pretty lacking was a sort of precursor to my admission today: A couple of weeks ago I made a profile on okcupid.com.
I would say it’s one of the more embarrassing things I’ve ever done. As someone who has met multiple people from the internet, I could at least always cling to the claim of “Hey, it’s not like I ever met anyone from one of those dating sites.” Which is still a claim I can make, but I can no longer claim to have never joined one.
But, well, I spend most of my Saturday nights doodling around online so I figured it might not hurt to waste an evening away meeting a semi-random person that actually lives in Athens, and, besides, the idea of these dating sites is that they’re supposed to find your perfect matches! I still don’t necessarily think it’s a bad idea in theory, but, unfortunately, of the few people I bothered to message, none of them seemed like anyone I’d be interested in meeting at all. And, after the first night or two of fiddling with the site, it occurred to me how pathetic it was that I was messaging essentially random girls online, when I walk by hundreds of random girls every day and don’t pursue them.
Still, I did make the profile, and I felt the need to confess to you readers the depths to which I have sank. I only hope that you can still look at me with some respect.
There is no such thing as perfect, thus, no perfect matches. Lies! All lies! ~I’ll be
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-shrugs- Look at it as just something to do, but I still think that the chemistry you feel in person is the way to go. But that’s not like I can talk, I’m still single. Just don’t put all your eggs into the dating website basket. You have social skills, I’m sure. And I always thought dating websites were the stomping ground of the 40 year old divorcee, but if that’s who you’re going for,I’m not one to judge
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It was not an easy decision to drop the class, but I hadn’t really invested enough time to consider time wasted. Which is why I dropped. Plus, it’s American Lit. I can only read so many uninteresting things before vomiting. By the time I dropped the class, I needed someone to hold my hair back.
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I met Sham on OKCupid. JUST SAYING.
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Hey, for some people it works and for some it doesn’t. You said yourself that you feel you get to know people online and that changes how you view in-person relationships. So maybe that’s a decent step for you to take. On the plus side, at least you put up the profile. Two years ago, my friends posted a profile for me on a dating site and I was getting messages from old men looking for love. Eeps
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Nothing wrong with that. Just chalk it up to being curious
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Oh my.
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I like the word goofball. There’s nothing wrong with trying to do meet people online, for romantic purposes… My aunt had an unfortunate experience with it, but that’s because she lives in a fantasy world.
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Matt. Oh. my. god. It’s funny how you KNOW you need to work on your people skills and yet you still turn to the internet where you’re more comfortable. THIS IS BAD! What am I going to do with you?!?!?!
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