TED talk on online dating yikes

[Crankin]

Although I have been married for 34 years, I think I would try on line dating if I was single. Heck, people thought I was nuts for getting married to DH after just 6 months! We met at a Jewish singles softball game (where he was one of the few who could actually play, let alone one of the few dressed appropriately for softball in 110 degree temperatures), the attraction was instant, and we moved in together after a month, were engaged in 3 months. He could have quite easily been a weirdo, given how quickly it happened, and his parents told him I was a weirdo and would leave him anyway, because I was more educated and my family was "too high class." Lovely. Despite that, it worked. I think if you take the attitude Rebecca spoke of, it's fine. That's how I felt about going to the Jewish singles events.

[OakLeaf]

DH and I met online, but it wasn't online dating. Just a message board - actually kind of similar to TE in a lot of ways, which I think was more common back in the day. So really, we met just "going about our usual activities," except that those activities happened to be online.

We knew each other for two years before we ever met face to face, and another year before we became a couple, but after that, the rest happened pretty fast. We really knew each other's personalities pretty well, even though we didn't know a lot of the details of each other's lives that are usually the first things people learn when they first meet the old-fashioned way.

I guess I'd be afraid of any set-up, whether online or f2f, being just too contrived for me. OTOH, my mom, in her 70s and a widow for a year and a half, is now dating someone she met at a senior singles' group. So who knows.