Okay, everything that just went through your head when you read that? Yup, I’ve thought it, too. So, now we’ve got that settled…
I’m online dating.
I tried a stint before with one of those sites that makes you pay to look at what everyone is trying to give away for free, let’s just call that site, oh, smatch dot com. During that stint of online dating what I hated was not the awkwardness, the spamming, the endless profiles of guys who “like movies and like to do outdoors stuff, even though I don’t do that as much as I would like, and I’m looking for a nice girl with a good sense of humor.” No. What I hated was that I would check my account every night, and every night I would be reminded of the fact that I’m single.
But this is the interwebs! The Grand Poobah of distractions! Shouldn’t this be fun? Shouldn’t an online dating site have multi-pronged interactions based on web 2.0 models and other jargon I don’t understand?
Well, I’m happy to say that I found a (free!) site that fits that description. I’d hate for this to seem like a big advertisement for a specific site when I’m sure there are many admirable online dating venues out there, but for the sake of reference let’s just call this one…oksmupid dot com.
Fun things that have happened to me since being on oksmupid:
- Spammed by a local band trying to get me to their gig by promising dance floor romance
- Approached by several married couples looking for a third (but it always seems to be the men who approach me…hmm….)
- Had a BLACK man with the username BLACK-something-or-other message me and ask me if I ever did it with a BLACK man
- Had a girl instant message me to ask if she could send me naked pictures of herself (I said no. If I wanted to look at pictures of naked women, I was already online. Done.)
See? Distractions! Who has time to think about being single with such entertainment? Success!
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