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We must've been on a different website. Outside of the forums (which were mostly full of trolls), I don't see how you could've been making friends on that websi

We must've been on a different website. Outside of the forums (which were mostly full of trolls), I don't see how you could've been making friends on that website in the way you convey. I certainly wasn't and neither were any of the people I knew who used it either. Hell - even getting a date on it was quite difficult (I never got one but I know my female counterparts were getting 50+ messages/day and never complained for a lack of suitors). The stats they released backed that up too. After all it wasn't just an effortless swipe to see if you were physically compatible with one another before moving forward... You had to craft a message and pray whatever attempt you used worked. (And then do that a lot) I never saw friendly messages going between same-sex people or anything of that sort.

jlokier 5y ago
Could have been different experiences, or could have been different timeframes. It has changed a lot. Last time I looked a few years ago, it was very offputting and not at all interesting. But I gather they do keep changing it, so who knows what it's like now. In my experience, which was pre-2007, OkCupid is the only social media site where I've ended up meeting people and where I first encounted people who would become new friends. It was uncanny how it also ranked me very highly with people I already knew though. I had many chats on there with both males and females. It's true that most didn't reply, and I did receive some unsavoury approaches, but some were interesting conversations, and as I said, I met a few people IRL. Nothing sexual though. By comparison, Facebook is supposed to be social media, but I don't thikn I've ever struck up a decent conversation or friendship on Facebook with someone I didn't already know from elsewhere.

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We must've been on a different website. Outside of the forums (which were mostly full of trolls), I don't see how you could've been making friends on that websi

by bradlys 5y ago

jlokier 5y ago
Could have been different experiences, or could have been different timeframes. It has changed a lot. Last time I looked a few years ago, it was very offputting and not at all interesting. But I gather they do keep changing it, so who knows what it's like now. In my experience, which was pre-2007, OkCupid is the only social media site where I've ended up meeting people and where I first encounted people who would become new friends. It was uncanny how it also ranked me very highly with people I already knew though. I had many chats on there with both males and females. It's true that most didn't reply, and I did receive some unsavoury approaches, but some were interesting conversations, and as I said, I met a few people IRL. Nothing sexual though. By comparison, Facebook is supposed to be social media, but I don't thikn I've ever struck up a decent conversation or friendship on Facebook with someone I didn't already know from elsewhere.