a long day of work!?!There has to be a way to make this whole dating thing easier. I have totally ruled out blind dates. It's way too much of a crapshoot. Then you have to explain to your mutual friend why you were not interested. Inevitably, someone gets hurt. But if you are not willing to be set up, where do you meet people? It's hard for busy professionals to take the time to find people to date.
I thought I would check out what online dating searches people were doing. Yes, the concept is kind of scary. Someone you meet could be leading a secret double life and have an entire family in another state! But I have also heard so many good stories about couples who have met online and ended up living happily ever after. You could also get to know the person before you have to meet them and not waste your time with people you don't really like. Now that is important!
Lots of people are searching for classified personals and online dating sites. I have heard a lot about dating services lately. It's almost like being set up by friends, but I think that they take more criteria into account. I would love to go speed dating (even though I have yet to get my single friends to agree to the outing), it would be an adventure if nothing else. You wont catch me in any dating chat rooms, but apparently tons of other people are going to them.
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 6)
21. I do not understand why people due this. But I have to be one of them today. I meet a guy throw my work about 4 years ago but I did not know he was a friend of my asst. manager at the time. We huge out after the fact and got closer than two people get close. But I know he is the right guy for me and we talk about everything. We due alot togther but I tell him if family problems come up go to it and I well understand and the same with with family. But have alot to due and in commin togther. But I like for him and he does the same for me.
Posted at 5:35PM on Dec 17th 2007 by lynchcynthia4
22. I met my girlfriend through Chemistry.com. She is an absolutely amazing woman. However, it took me over two years to find anyone half decent. I had given up searching. The only reason that I still had a profile up there was that they were giving me a free trial. The fact of the matter is, ladies and gentlemen: PEOPLE just aren't all that great, in general! I think we spend too much time watching all of the beautiful characters on TV to realize that most people are REALLY imperfect, and nothing like these made up fictional characters. Sorry, but it's true! Believe me....I've been on both ends of this problem....not tall, dark, handsome, or "bad" enough. And most women really aren't all that great prizes either....certainly not good enough to demand all that they do. Walk around in public sometime. Look at the people....and not just the good looking ones. People, on average, are quite hideous.... rude.... obnoxious.... repulsive... stupid.... It's amazing, to me, that the human race has survived for as long as it has.
Posted at 5:36PM on Dec 17th 2007 by chimp chimperson
23. What every happen to good old dating and going from their. For me if someone likes for me i hope they due. I wont any man like for me not what i have in other places. I wont a guy to like as me. I hope a man well understand me when I say family and I mean family first.
Posted at 5:36PM on Dec 17th 2007 by cynthia
24. My husband found me on yahoo, my sister found her husband on line.
I had to talk to a lot of jerks before my husband, he was worth all the effort. If you talk to the people long enough you can weed the creeps with out having to met them.
Posted at 5:38PM on Dec 17th 2007 by k
25. It works! I met my husband online the first night I signed up for Match (did not even post a photo) we talked for several days, got to know each other and are now happily, happily married! I must be the shortest member of match in their history. I hid my profile 8 days later and cancelled membership 2 days after that.
Posted at 5:40PM on Dec 17th 2007 by Drea
26. I met who I thought was my perfect match online, dated about a year, got married in may and now divorced. He was nothing but a fake and a liar. Now he's back to the online dating thing with nothing but lies in his profile!
Jennifer
Posted at 5:40PM on Dec 17th 2007 by Jennifer
27. ONLINE DATING?...not so great yet! Most of the nice women online want someone who makes over $100,000 and wants to see the world. They're not looking for someone who doesn't drink, smoke, take drugs, or want sex from every woman they meet, like myself. Several of the women I was interested in were married at least 5 times already, one was the biggest BITCH you'd ever want to meet. Every restaurant we went to (on the weekend we met), she embarrassed the hell out of me as she made a FOOL out of every waitress that served our table. If I would have had access to a can of RAID, I would have shoved it up her aSS to help get the "bug out!" (if you get the idea) Stay away from HERMITAGE, or you might just meet the WITCH............in person!
Some of the women online look like they haven't exercised in years, and yet they list "playing sports" as one of their favorites. (PLAYING CARDS all night is NOT a sport).
Every other decent woman I was interested in wanted the first meeting place to be a BAR to drink first. If you need a few drinks to have a nice conversation on a FIRST DATE, you don't have a PERSONALITY.
GOOD LUCK to everyone who was SUCCESSFUL, and HAPPY HOLIDAYS too. TOM
Posted at 5:41PM on Dec 17th 2007 by tom
28. I'm glad to see that SOME have success with online dating because I sure didn't.....
We chatted for weeks and finally decided to meet since we were both from the same town. We chatted that afternoon and agreed to meet in a nuetral public place.....
During the hour it took to drive there my date:
Shrank one foot in height.....
Gained about 100 pounds.....
and aged at least ten years.....
I dropped that individual immediately - if they'll lie about such minor things as physical appearence what else will they lie about?
Posted at 5:41PM on Dec 17th 2007 by chris
29. Hey K, Glad you found your husband online and now your marriage is all good, but you can weed out a person for so long and still something else will come up, I've chatted to a woman online for 5 months and she promised me so much, I eventually gave her my trust and then she burnt me, I guess asking for someone to be honest is asking to much !
Posted at 5:43PM on Dec 17th 2007 by Brad
30. My husband and I met on an online dating site by accident. He had been put up to joining by his secretary and my mom and I found the site and wanted to see who was on there and joined. At any rate, through our sarcastic, cynical comments and preferences the site matched us up and we started talking.
I appreciate online dating sites because it automatically screens what you typically have to go through 2 or 3 dates to learn about someone, and most busy people (like us) just don't have time to fool with that stuff. At any rate, we have been together for 4 years now and wouldn't trade a minute!
Posted at 5:47PM on Dec 17th 2007 by Aubrey
31. my opinion is find a real person instead of doing the internet thing.i laugh at so many dumb people because they have their head up their asses thinking they have found true love..lol i know a guy who loves to cyber these idiots and lil do they know hes 67 years old..he claims hes in his 30s..now ladies this is something to be proud of lol and unless you get a real life you deserve whatever you get from this person
Posted at 5:47PM on Dec 17th 2007 by Bren
32. shi #12
I have had my share of nut jobs and players, too. It's not confined to one gender. I periodically just drop off the online (last time was for two years.)in order to avoid them.
I seem to meet nicer people the old fashioned way. If you see someone, you start a conversation with them, whereever it is. The grocery store, the airplane, Christmas shopping for presents, doesn't matter just don't stop looking or trying.
Posted at 5:48PM on Dec 17th 2007 by taxnsax
33. I think online romance can work...it's all in the chemistry and timing of who you're meeting. I met my husband in an online chatroom...the romance room. At first we didn't talk much...but then a few months later he popped up in a room I was in, I left and he followed me to another room. We started talking online again and we finally met in person a few weeks later. He drove 3 hours from a job site he was working at to meet me...and continued to do this in order to see me. He is a wonderful, giving, generous man that I am so lucky to have met and married...we've been married for almost 2 yrs now and have a baby on the way. We are very happy and I wouldn't want my life any other way!
Posted at 5:51PM on Dec 17th 2007 by cayleighd
34. Ya know! I never had great luck with online dating, I'm a very attractive sweet sincere honet guy, but these people that lie never stop, The lies keep coming and coming one after another, So if there are any single nice looking, sweet, romantic women out there between 30-36 that wants to be treated by a wonderful guy email me! Benzc30008@aol.com
Posted at 5:53PM on Dec 17th 2007 by Brad
35. YOU GUYS SHOULD GO TO www.faceparty.com AND MEET WOMEN FROM UKRAINE. THEY HAVE LOWER STANDARDS AND THEY LIKE FOREIGN MEN. THEY ALSO DON'T LOOK FOR LOOKS AND CONFIDENCE IN A GUY TOO.
Posted at 5:56PM on Dec 17th 2007 by Dennis Esguerra
36. I have to agree with the majority - it's a tough thing. I did meet someone online who turned out to be a nice guy...maybe just not for me because of the distance. I do think it works FASTER the more physically attractive you are. I'm an average girl that men tend to like only after they've gotten to know me for a while, like as co-workers, or at church. There really is someone for everyone, but you should be willing to look past the photo.
Posted at 5:56PM on Dec 17th 2007 by Renee'
37. I met a man online but not through the match sites. We did not let too much time go by before meeting in person. He looked like his picture, I looked like my picture, no surprises. We got along great and I really truly thought we were great together. He certainly seemed to enjoy being with me too. The only surprise was years later when I discovered he has over 300 half naked women on his MySpace page. Don't think that men only lie on the match sites. Had I known he was taking soft porn photos of women and displaying them for everyone to see, I would NEVER have agreed to meet him. If that is what turns him on, great, but I had a right to know what he was doing. What they show you, and what they are, are very often different. I'm not giving up on men because of that experience. And get this - he thinks there is NOTHING WRONG with it, because they are just his "friends." Helllllooooooo? This is a man in his 40s not a teenager.
Posted at 6:01PM on Dec 17th 2007 by Adrie
38. I met a wonderful woman online and am going to see how we hit it off in person when we get the chance. I am already guaranteed a great friendship, and there is no better place to start than as great friends.
Posted at 6:03PM on Dec 17th 2007 by Alan
39. I had a near-perfect online dating experience, using Match, in 2005. I know some people who use these sites are unattractive/socially awkward/odd, but my ex and I are the opposite (sorry about the lack of modesty). We're both attractive, at the time age 21, college seniors, with lots of friends. He was 6'2, gorgeous, and on his way to becoming rich, through his job that he had lined-up.
Everything was perfect for awhile. We met after a few weeks of exchanging emails, and our first date was awesome. We became officially boyfriend and girlfriend a month after, and dated for the next 7 months. I thought I was in love.
Then, I found out that he had another profile online and was looking for other girls. Ironic, isn't it? :(
Posted at 6:05PM on Dec 17th 2007 by Tara
40. I don't agree on the looks issue. My husband's picture on line was horrible, however, his profile and honesty when we spoke won me over. I did not post a photo as I had the fear of people I know seeing that I was in an online dating site. When we met we were very pleased with our looks, however, by then we already liked the inner people so, looks were a bonus not primary.
Posted at 6:05PM on Dec 17th 2007 by Drea