Non Dating Sites and the People That Cruise for Hotties
I don't have to change any names to protect the innocent, although I probably wouldn't if I had to.
Date: Nov 28, 2005 12:04 AM
Subject: Hello Beautiful Lady
Body:
Hello How are u ? My name is joe , 34 Italian & Irish , living in vegas also,, I just wanted to say hello to U a very beautiful woman,, Might u like to chat some ?
Guess where I got this message from? That's right, my new fave addiction - MySpace.
It would be understandable if a big irish and italian guy came up to me on say... Match.com or Hell - even JDate (good thing Jews dont believe in Hell). But I got it from MySpace. Even better is that I don't have my profile tagged as looking for dating. Networking and Friends only. I'm single and enjoyably so... to the extent that single white girls can be at least. My point is this - I'm single for a reason, and I'm staying so for a reason as well. If I did decide that I'd like a man for more than a week, I'd go out and find one.
I'll find my men the old fashioned way - face down at the bar. Thank you very much.
Since this whole blog thing is to get stuff out of my head, I'll let everyone know what I don't understand. Why the fuck are you going to be searching profiles or inquiring about others with a medium that is not designed for it.
I'll even go as far as admitting my 2nd fave addiction - online gaming. If I say 'WOOT!' who will understand me? Only those of you that shine your Geek Badge every night before you go to bed like I do. I'll explain more in a few paragraphs.
Now, apparently a few weeks ago a girlfriend of mine set up a Match.com thing for me and set it with my anonymous email address... lots of freaks on Match.com by the way. But Match.com is one of those places where you're SUPPOSED to meet others and wink at them and post face shots because you think your gut hangs out in that shirt or whatever. Who cares. But it's that type of thing - it's sole purpose is to do JUST THAT. Same thing with jdate.com and all those other ones.
I came across a BBW dating site the other day. I admire those with the contrarian point of view, that don't follow the stick figure society ideal of a man or woman ... but there's standing up for your beliefs and then there's exploitation. There's a difference between trying to find a date with a limited pool of people that are attracted to your body type vs posting pictures of the 60lbs of belly fat that you've been carrying around for 10 years. Just because you're fat, it doesn't make you a BBW. To be a BBW, you actually have to represent the letters: Big, Beautiful Woman for you twigs out there.
So far we've got MySpace - a medium that isn't designed for dating, but merely implements it on a very minute scale.
Online Gaming is really fun. You get to kick the shit out of stuff, or even other people. It's addictive like crack if you're not careful. There was a kid that jumped off of a roof and got killed trying to reenact something that his pixelated self accomplished in a game. There was that guy in South Korea that gamed for 50 hours straight and then died of a heart attack in his chair at the internet cafe. It's dangerous if you don't pay attention. It's a release from reality - just like zoning into a TV show or into the story line in a book. It is not, however, a replacement for human interaction.
You create a character and you end up emulating that character. Most people even customize the looks of the character to themselves... down to the eye color. The funny thing is, that if you're a female character all the men characters give you money and stuff for free. The men characters have to fend for themselves. As you 'grow up' or level, you meet new characters and find your way around and what not. For the socially inept, this seems to be a 'dating scene'.
I live in a town that is extremely popular for tourists. Because of that, I was able to meet a lot of the people that I just happened to become familiar with in my travels through an unreal land. It was cool - until a few of them thought that more was going to happen. Sorry to disappoint. Step to the back of the bus. Mace is your only other option.
I think it's pretty funny that some people are so afraid to interact with others that they go through so many different channels to do so anonymously. Hey, I'm the Anonymous Defender. Guess where I got it. That's right, it's a name from the game. But it works. Would I join an online dating site? Sure... I don't see a problem with it. Will I cruise message boards about car parts for a cute guy that likes to work with his hands... no.
Date: Nov 28, 2005 12:04 AM
Subject: Hello Beautiful Lady
Body:
Hello How are u ? My name is joe , 34 Italian & Irish , living in vegas also,, I just wanted to say hello to U a very beautiful woman,, Might u like to chat some ?
Guess where I got this message from? That's right, my new fave addiction - MySpace.
It would be understandable if a big irish and italian guy came up to me on say... Match.com or Hell - even JDate (good thing Jews dont believe in Hell). But I got it from MySpace. Even better is that I don't have my profile tagged as looking for dating. Networking and Friends only. I'm single and enjoyably so... to the extent that single white girls can be at least. My point is this - I'm single for a reason, and I'm staying so for a reason as well. If I did decide that I'd like a man for more than a week, I'd go out and find one.
I'll find my men the old fashioned way - face down at the bar. Thank you very much.
Since this whole blog thing is to get stuff out of my head, I'll let everyone know what I don't understand. Why the fuck are you going to be searching profiles or inquiring about others with a medium that is not designed for it.
I'll even go as far as admitting my 2nd fave addiction - online gaming. If I say 'WOOT!' who will understand me? Only those of you that shine your Geek Badge every night before you go to bed like I do. I'll explain more in a few paragraphs.
Now, apparently a few weeks ago a girlfriend of mine set up a Match.com thing for me and set it with my anonymous email address... lots of freaks on Match.com by the way. But Match.com is one of those places where you're SUPPOSED to meet others and wink at them and post face shots because you think your gut hangs out in that shirt or whatever. Who cares. But it's that type of thing - it's sole purpose is to do JUST THAT. Same thing with jdate.com and all those other ones.
I came across a BBW dating site the other day. I admire those with the contrarian point of view, that don't follow the stick figure society ideal of a man or woman ... but there's standing up for your beliefs and then there's exploitation. There's a difference between trying to find a date with a limited pool of people that are attracted to your body type vs posting pictures of the 60lbs of belly fat that you've been carrying around for 10 years. Just because you're fat, it doesn't make you a BBW. To be a BBW, you actually have to represent the letters: Big, Beautiful Woman for you twigs out there.
So far we've got MySpace - a medium that isn't designed for dating, but merely implements it on a very minute scale.
Online Gaming is really fun. You get to kick the shit out of stuff, or even other people. It's addictive like crack if you're not careful. There was a kid that jumped off of a roof and got killed trying to reenact something that his pixelated self accomplished in a game. There was that guy in South Korea that gamed for 50 hours straight and then died of a heart attack in his chair at the internet cafe. It's dangerous if you don't pay attention. It's a release from reality - just like zoning into a TV show or into the story line in a book. It is not, however, a replacement for human interaction.
You create a character and you end up emulating that character. Most people even customize the looks of the character to themselves... down to the eye color. The funny thing is, that if you're a female character all the men characters give you money and stuff for free. The men characters have to fend for themselves. As you 'grow up' or level, you meet new characters and find your way around and what not. For the socially inept, this seems to be a 'dating scene'.
I live in a town that is extremely popular for tourists. Because of that, I was able to meet a lot of the people that I just happened to become familiar with in my travels through an unreal land. It was cool - until a few of them thought that more was going to happen. Sorry to disappoint. Step to the back of the bus. Mace is your only other option.
I think it's pretty funny that some people are so afraid to interact with others that they go through so many different channels to do so anonymously. Hey, I'm the Anonymous Defender. Guess where I got it. That's right, it's a name from the game. But it works. Would I join an online dating site? Sure... I don't see a problem with it. Will I cruise message boards about car parts for a cute guy that likes to work with his hands... no.
posted by Anonymous Defender at 11:40 AM
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