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Is Online Dating Worth It?
Be sure to join the discussion on our discord at: Discord. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter iFi Salamander Start date Sep 4, Status Not open for further replies. With the internet being used by a super majority of the worlds demographics in society these days many people have actively engaged in internet relationships. However with this comes much criticism of whether they are healthy, and if they are even real relationships, as many socially awkward teens and adults actively seek them out of weakness. So Serebii I ask, what do you think of the growing prospect that is online dating? Is my Buddy. I think this belongs in the Debate Forum, but Im not sure But I think its unhealthy because talking over the internet or phone isnt really the same as face-to-face. Even if you see eachother every once in awhile though, its still very hard in my opinion. Last edited: Sep 5, It's a good place to meet people, but don't build your relationship only on there. Find someone, chat, and then arrange plans to meet in person. Get to know them in real life and see if they're good or not. Click to expandKaiserin please wake up No, it's not really a debate. It's more of a discussion thread, so it probably got moved to misc instead. Personally, I doubt I'd ever engage in one myself, and I do think that, from an objective standpoint, they are more difficult to maintain and require much more dedication than a close-range relationship. I'm not interested in telling people they can't or shouldn't have them, but I think they should go in with the knowledge that they are in for a much different, and often largely uphill, battle. Psychic Really and truly. Honestly, if someone is happy being in an internet relationship or long-distance relationship or what have you, who the heck cares? We can't judge whether or not someone else is happy or if they find their relationship fulfilling, because we are not them. I don't see the point in trying to delegitimize a relationship where all parties are perfectly content. Personally , I wouldn't want to be in one myself, because face-to-face contact is vital for me. I can retain a friendship online just fine, but I wouldn't want to be in a relationship with someone I couldn't physically be with and spend time with. I'm sure I'm not the only person who feels this way, but just because we might not want internet relationships does not make them bad or illegitimate, which I hope yet somehow doubt posters will keep in mind. I really don't see the value in online relationships. It is like you can't meet someone in your town or neighborhood, then you feel sad, last you find someone online to have the deep thought in. It is just better to just arrange something online to meet the person at particular area instead of just going to dating online. I have never online dated since I know what happens, by watching some Life Time Movies and shows that teaches you the lessons on that.
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Pesky Persian Caffeine Queen. I apologize in advance for typos. Writing from my Kindle. I think it depends entirely on the situation and the people involved. I think it's a terrible idea for people who aren't legal adults for lots of reasons. And I don't like the idea of dating sites because they seem like a terrible way to meet people. If people are looking for dates, they're most likely going to talk themselves up or straight-up lie to impress people. I don't really agree with actively searching for a partner. I think it should just happen naturally. But diffrrent things work for different people. I think relationships that start out online can work, but it needs a few things. Money, for one. Gas is expensive and flying is too.
If neither person has a source of income, visits are going to be nearly impossible. Communication is important in any relationship but having reliable means of communication is a necessity when distance is involved. Trust and loyalty are probably the two big ones. You have to trust your partner and you have to be willing to be faithful even when you're apart. Also, it can't stay long distance forever. At some point, someone has to make sacrifices and move. Obviously, a major decision like this shouldn't be early on, but it's something that has to be considered for the relationship to work. I met my boyfriend three and half years ago on a forum much like this one. We eventually got to talking and became friends. And we were really good friends, talked every day, for about a year before I told him how I felt about him. I took a big chance in doing that and I was lucky because the feeling was mutual. A month later, he was flying in to stay at my house for a few weeks.
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We've been flying back and forth to visit ever since. My parents were surprisingly understanding they love him, though. And his parents love me too. I was lucky with that as well. It's certainly not easy. It's actually very difficult to be away from him for so long. But it can work if the effort and the love is there. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone but sometimes things just happen. I certainly wasn't expecting it. Eternalserenity Wanderer.
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I can honestly say that it's hard. You wanna be in the same room with the person you're chatting with but you can't. You can't go hang out somewhere either. I'm still happy in my long distance relationship even with the inconveniences that come with it. However, I do not like getting cussed out over it. To the two people who have done it to me already, who do you think you are to tell me how to run my life? What other people do is none of your business, so grow up and run your own life and let people live theirs the way they want. I think it should be a slow steady thing if it's via internet possibly have cam to cam session's so both of you KNOW who you're actually talking to obviously not straight away. I've never personally had a internet girlfriend but with out tooting my own horn i've never had problem's in that department. If i were to breakup with girlfriend once i get over her i could just replace her but same could be said vice versa dating is not hard if you know how to approach people and are socialable. SilverLanayru It's a mystery. Pesky Persian said:. Kutie Pie "It is my destiny. I don't think it hurts to meet people online, lots of people have done this before, but to carry out a relationship that needs lots of communication and interaction through the Internet is very, very difficult, and needs lots of patience and determination. Kudos to those who can keep a relationship active through the web, still, it would be loads better to meet face-to-face and be able to carry on a conversation that way. We all feel much better talking with typed text and not having to meet the person in the eye. Sure, webcams may help, but emotions will be better expressed when it's physically there. While I wouldn't want get in an online relationship myself, I personally think the person is worth it when he or she is willing to spend money to get on a plane and fly across the country or the ocean alone to be able to meet their significant other.
What is your opinion on online relationships/dating?
Not many people will do this on a whim for sure and be able to keep it up for long periods of time, so I'd call them a rare breed. Aegon Well-Known Member. I'm not against it why would I be? Relationships that do not contain physical interaction pale in comparison to those that do. I don't think it's bad for people to meet online, they just need to meet in real life so both people know the other isn't making a fake personality and isn't some psycho. They also need to talk some face to face. I think online dating is actually much more romantic. And the passion that builds up inside you when you really like this person you're with, but they're not beside you. It just takes over, and when you finally get the chance to see that person IRL, I just believe it's so much better. I'm gonna just admit that I'm in a online relationship, and again I didn't meet him on one of those dating sites. I met him on a forum where we both share the same interests. There was no lie to our interests or we didn't try to impress each other with trying to share the every trait. We just clicked. And after being with him for over a year and a half, I could not see myself happier with anyone else.Sure, I might not get to see him everyday or physically be with him. But we talk everyday for hours. And actually I'm going to see him at the end of this month. Online dating needs maturity and patience and of course, loyalty. Much like IRL relationships.. Ausgirl Well-Known Member. I wouldn't reccommend it. I've read too many stories about older men meeting young girls on the internet and when the girls meet up with them they tend to dissapear A lot of these sites are also scams, seeking to trick gullable people of all ages. Even when none of the above happen, these sites are just a money making business, with most of the success going to the people who run the websites and not those who use the websites. Plus some people just use it to arrange one night stands, so it also poses a health-risks cos of STD. Besides it's also just plain creepy when a couple meet through an online game such as Real Word and become so obsessed with each other characters and fantasies that they decide to take things one step further. So yeah people who are considering using these sites should just stick to those marathon dating clubs, whatever they're called. Going to be pretty blunt, but why is some as hot as your are dating online? I really don't think you'd have any trouble in person. The Eleventh said:. Well let me give you a story about why online dating makes me cringe anymore.
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About a year ago I played a terrible game known as Runescape in its dying days. I met a girl on there from Canada. So we were friends for a few months but I guess we really started growing to like each other, we were IMing, and sending pictures of our home and family and etc. So I sorta dated her for awhile, and had tentative plans to meet her. However we were going to begin Skyping which was going to be my Christmas present from her as she finally was going to visit her mother in the city where she could buy a new mic for her iPod. Well she was really into Skiidooing Basically what Canadians call rough terrain snowmobiling. One day in the winter time, about two weeks before Christmas Right before she was going to visit her mother she left me a text saying there was someone trapped in an avalanche and she was going to go check it out. So about two days passed and I still hadn't heard back from her so I was quite worried at this point and I was thinking my girlfriend died for Christmas, awesome. After a week and hearing nothing I began to look into some of the websites and forum community they have for skiidooing in her area and they were claiming there wasn't even a storm or any reported incidents of falls or anyone getting. Okay suspicious at this point. So about about another week I anonymously contacted the authorities and they claimed her name didn't even exist in the town directory. I found a couple of the names of friends she mentioned on Facebook and tried asking around, none of them answered. This lead me to assume she was either dead or gave me an alias. Two months from this point I was long over her already my best friend who I played RS with gave me a recon report that he saw she was on Runescape the past few days. I stayed on for awhile and confirmed she was on at the same time I was, but didn't appear on according to my friends list, meaning she deleted and blocked me.
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So to this day my friends and I agree she either gave me an alias or wasn't a real person, and she conveniently "disappeared" right when we were about to have our first talk because she realized she couldn't hide that fact from me anymore. Truthfully I'll admit, never in my life have I been so stupid. She utterly owned me. So that is why I won't date online ever again. Not to mention it just signifies social awkwardness in most cases to me. One of my ex's is dating this kid from across the country and she is so awkward it's hilarious. From Bumble to Tinder, Mutual and Hinge, each dating app boasts of love and excitement. But their effects can be diverse — some users leave with a relationship, while others end up with the emotional weight of loneliness, anxiety, low self-esteem, body insecurity and depression. I dabbled in dating apps when I turned I painfully scoured each photo I put on a profile, wondering if my eye was too squinty, if my smile might be crooked, if that shadow on my face made my skin look bad. I went on dates — bad dates with uncomfortable people, better dates with people who made me laugh, cringy dates that should have ended quickly but somehow stretched on for hours. But my primary emotion was not excitement or connection or love. I felt stressed — like I had to prove myself in some speed round get-to-know-you before they swiped on the next person in line. And why not? On dating apps, the dead ends pile up — and I quickly grew emotionally exhausted of swiping. But they can also introduce you to a host of mental health struggles. From my short spurt with dating apps, I quickly learned that they brought out an aspect of my personality — high attention to detail and a background of body image insecurity — that made me an exact match for dating app anxiety. Instead of giving someone five pictures of myself and a bio line, I relied on the art of verbal banter.
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