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[hubba bubba]

Hey,

So I have friends who hook up on these Korean dating sites. Call me ancient, but I've always thought hooking up online was the realm of losers. I mean, I'd just be emarassed to tell people, "We met on a website."

What do you think, for losers?? Should I just put away my Coleco-vision, and get with the times?

[Corky]

Take one look at the smorgasborg available on Koreanfriendfinder and then make up your mind.

[crazylemongirl]

hmmm *wonders if taking an online poll on the matter is smells slightly of hypocrisy by the OP*

[Sincinnatislink]

I've met some great girls online.
I
a) dislike bars and
b) don't know where else to meet people.

She needs to be relatively erudite. That is easier to discern on myspace than from across the room with both of us drunk.
Hookups in person, sure. It never works out to actually meet someone, though.

I'm also a better writer than speaker. That helps.

[krats1976]

[willneverteachagain]

i met a girl in yahoo chat in a korean room while we both lived in korea. she now has her canadian res. visa for almost two years and we are happily married living in canada

[pdx]

having gone through it, I still think it's very weird, yet you can know a LOT about someone from talking online first. The only thing you have to do is meet very early on in the discussions. It will erase a lot of awkward things.

As for meeting friends- it's great. You can meet someone and hit it off and never rely on the internet again, or you can meet someone, hate them, and never talk to them again.

I met one of my best friends on the internet. We chatted for a while and then it ended up that we were going to the same concert. We introduced ourselves there, chatted, and since he was moving into the city for school that fall, i told him he should come over to the house that I shared with my roommates and hang out with us.

Right before he came over for the first time I was freaking out thinking "I just invited some random guy to our house!" but, actually, it was perfect. He's got this wonderful sense of humor and fits in so well with my friends. We've been friends about 2 and a half years now.

[oneofthesarahs]

I dated a guy I met online, sort of by accident.

I used to be one of those scoffers of dating sites. Then my best friend joined one and met a girl that he began dating. I started ribbing him about not being able to find girls in real life, so he convinced me to start an account with the site that he used to "prove to me" that it was a good way to meet people.

I mostly just laughed at the profiles (because let's face it, yes, there are a lot of desperate losers on those sites). I never contacted anyone, but there was one guy who kept showing up at the top of my "match" list, mostly because our favorite local bands were the same. However, he didn't have any pictures up, so I didn't know what he looked like. One day I sent him a message on a whim to tell him that one of his favorite bands was playing a "secret" show in town. Totally a friendly heads up. I got no response from him.

Then at the concert, I started chatting up some really attractive guy at the bar and we really hit it off. At some point in the evening he said, "Thank goodness some random girl online told me about this show." Turns out I was that random girl! We dated for several months before breaking up when he moved out of the country.

[Qinella]

I made an account on UB Love, wherein I posted only the worst pictures of myself that I have available. Then, for my profile, I wrote a pointless story in Korean about a princess finding a frog, kissing it, and it turning into a monster and eating her alive.

The result is that I always get these winks and emails from some rather attractive women. It makes me wonder if the web site creates fake profiles or pays hot girls to hit on other people so they will be inspired to purchase a subscription.

Anyway, the girl I dated for 7 months before she dumped me was from an online site. Was it awkward when people asked where we met and we said the internet? Yeah, sorta, but who cares? We were happy.

[kingplaya4]

It is for losers, but better to be a loser irl (in a relationship) than orl (out of a relationship.

[ScottyG]

if it is for losers, then i am a huge loser. but for a loser i have ended up getting to know some very beautiful women. that said, i began meeting girls on the internet in Korea, and expected to do this when i returned home with the same results. results where laughable. back home, it is a different crowd of girls seeking romance online. mostly chicks with kids, and the hot ones get so much attention that you have no chance in hell in meeting them. in korea....basically it starts out as a free english lesson. add soju and it can end up a whole lot more;) when in rome....enjoy.

[uberscheisse]

www.ublaid.com

that's all i can say. good luck in your search.

[chachee99]

I'm a loser and I don't meet women online

[chachee99]

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