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I met my wife on Match in 2000, we have been together 15 years and have 4 kids. Online dating was fun, especially if you use a little D.R.Y. and keep a text fi
by gregpilling 11y ago
I met my wife on Match in 2000, we have been together 15 years and have 4 kids.
Online dating was fun, especially if you use a little D.R.Y. and keep a text file of all the things you would say over and over again. It becomes very easy to 'mail merge' the best response to the ad you are looking at while still sounding original.
Fun times, it was great to meet all sorts of women every week. I am still friends with a 5 of them today. For me, the internet enabled me to meet 100x more women that I would find interesting than otherwise.
- puranjay 11y agoI used the exact opposite approach with online dating. I would write whatever comes into my head with zero filtering. I didn't care if I got laid or not. I just wanted to have fun. My brain is better at coming up with quips than I realized. Once the mental barriers were gone, I discovered a new ability to make people laugh
- dzhiurgis 11y agoI find it much easier to be funny IRL. Introductions look so templated and difficult to get right. Also my friend noticed something about 90s - it was much nicer to start talking with a person before seeing their entire life summarised, categorised and carefully documented in picture feed.