Would you use internet dating to find love

[Marc Meakin]

Fingers crossed, I may have found the one, but I used to mock those that used match.com and the like to find love.
But after a few virtual dates using msn and a webcam, I have since changed my mind.
Just wondered what you think?

[Paul Howe]

Just waiting for my name to come up...

[Lesley Hines]

No. I have nothing against internet dating, but my husband would be really pissed.

[Marc Meakin]

No. I have nothing against internet dating, but my husband would be really pissed.

Lol thought i recognised your profile.
Try and guess which season 63 contestant is on Match.com

[Kai Laddiman]

No. I have nothing against internet dating, but my husband would be really pissed.

Lol thought i recognised your profile.
Try and guess which season 63 contestant is on Match.com

You?

[Ryan Taylor]

No. I have nothing against internet dating, but my husband would be really pissed.

Lol thought i recognised your profile.
Try and guess which season 63 contestant is on Match.com

Scott Gillies?

[Marc Meakin]

No. I have nothing against internet dating, but my husband would be really pissed.

Lol thought i recognised your profile.
Try and guess which season 63 contestant is on Match.com

Scott Gillies?

Are you calling me a puff like.
No shes female obviously, and too good looking for match.com IMO

[Chris Davies]

I met my girlfriend on plentyoffish.com. Our 1st anniversary is in two weeks.
Best of luck Marc, really hope it works out for you!

[Michael Wallace]

I met my girlfriend on plentyoffish.com.

What does 'plenty offish' even mean?

[Eoin Monaghan]

I met my girlfriend on plentyoffish.com. Our 1st anniversary is in two weeks.
Best of luck Marc, really hope it works out for you!

Jeff says in his book that you "even managed to score a girlfriend" through the show. Is this true?

[Charlie Reams]

I met my girlfriend on plentyoffish.com.

What does 'plenty offish' even mean?

It's like stand-offish.

FWIW I don't think I would use Internet dating because I'm terrible at interacting with people in that kind of loaded situation. But I don't have any problem with the concept or people that use it, so in the spirit of the poll I voted "yes".

[Lesley Hines]

Best of luck Marc, really hope it works out for you!

^This

We obviously expect regular updates now on how it's going.

Some of my top tips for dating based on my own personal experience:
At the cinema, don't ferret around in your pockets for the exact change and then say "Get mine while you're up there".
In a restaurant don't say "We'd better sit at the back: my wife thinks I'm working away"
When meeting a blind date for the first time don't say "I thought you were going to be thin* ".
In the pub don't say "My psychiatrist says I should avoid alcohol".
Don't offer to trade her for a mate for a packet of peanuts and 20p.
I've never met a woman yet who is utterly charmed by trying to fart/belch tunes.

Frighteningly, they're all true stories.

*I was size 12

[David O'Donnell]

I was so tempted to say that I would not use Internet dating to find love buy may use it to find someone who is willing to lick my balls.

Phew, I am glad I didn't say that.

[Ben Hunter]

I met my girlfriend on plentyoffish.com. Our 1st anniversary is in two weeks.
Best of luck Marc, really hope it works out for you!

I've got a mate who's always blazing birds off that site.

[Charlie Reams]

Some of my top tips for dating based on my own personal experience:
At the cinema, don't ferret around in your pockets for the exact change and then say "Get mine while you're up there".
In a restaurant don't say "We'd better sit at the back: my wife thinks I'm working away"
When meeting a blind date for the first time don't say "I thought you were going to be thin* ".
In the pub don't say "My psychiatrist says I should avoid alcohol".
Don't offer to trade her for a mate for a packet of peanuts and 20p.
I've never met a woman yet who is utterly charmed by trying to fart/belch tunes.

Frighteningly, they're all true stories.

*I was size 12

So do you regret saying any of those things?

[Chris Davies]

I met my girlfriend on plentyoffish.com. Our 1st anniversary is in two weeks.
Best of luck Marc, really hope it works out for you!

Jeff says in his book that you "even managed to score a girlfriend" through the show. Is this true?

I think having been on Countdown helped me find the confidence I needed to pursue a girl in the first place.

[Marc Meakin]

I met my girlfriend on plentyoffish.com. Our 1st anniversary is in two weeks.
Best of luck Marc, really hope it works out for you!

Cheers Chris that means a lot to me.
Glad it works.
BTW what was the timeframe between first contact (IM or text) to actual gf/bf status?

[Marc Meakin]

Best of luck Marc, really hope it works out for you!

^This

We obviously expect regular updates now on how it's going.

Some of my top tips for dating based on my own personal experience:
At the cinema, don't ferret around in your pockets for the exact change and then say "Get mine while you're up there".
In a restaurant don't say "We'd better sit at the back: my wife thinks I'm working away"
When meeting a blind date for the first time don't say "I thought you were going to be thin* ".
In the pub don't say "My psychiatrist says I should avoid alcohol".
Don't offer to trade her for a mate for a packet of peanuts and 20p.
I've never met a woman yet who is utterly charmed by trying to fart/belch tunes.

Frighteningly, they're all true stories.

*I was size 12

Ok so if its an update that you want then here goes

We started communicating by IM on Oasis.com
Graduated to texting (is there really a better feeling than getting a text from soneone who cares)
Then went onto MSN (welcome to the 21st century)
We have been practically been talking to each over 24 seven well from 6pm to 4am most nights since wednesday
webcams are a good invention eh.
We have been on virtual dates I can recommend all star bowling.
Off to see her at Milto Keynes on wednesday, but i am shitting myself as its been 20 years since I LAST dATED.
mORE TIPS PLEASE.
lEFT THE TYPOS IN COS IVE ONLY HAD 2 HOURS KIP ALL WEEK LOL

[Chris Davies]

BTW what was the timeframe between first contact (IM or text) to actual gf/bf status?

About a month, but she'd just come out of a bad relationship and said at first that she wasn't looking for a relationship just yet (although, me being me, I assumed it was just a polite rejection). She originally intended to wait until the new year to decide whether to give a relationship a go, but ended up changing her mind and saying 'I think we're boyfriend and girlfriend now' much earlier than that, because she didn't want me to lose patience (I was actually very patient considering how frustrating it was!)

[Chris Corby]

What most people don't realise is that they could be perfectly happy with about one in ten of the population. As long as someone is "nice"* they are attractive. When I got accepted into my job, I went through the following process:

1) Filled in application form. 93% of appliacnts were rejected.
2) Initial interview - passed
3) Serious interview - passed
4) Final interview - 10 passed/5 failed

I only mention this because do we go through a thorough process like this to find our life's partner? No. How did you meet your wife/husband/long-term partner? I know people who sat next to each other at school who later married, or worked in an office and were the only single people there and paired off. Or went to a pub/club and started chatting. Yet they refer to their partners as "one in a million" or a "soul mate". So, the chances of you finding 'love' on a dating site are incredibly high, because they are 'available'. If they are 'nice' as well you are 90% there.

After a long term relationship broke up a mate of mine was devestated, almost suicidal. I advised him to join a dating agency. He did. The first girl he met he later married, now have two children. True.

*I use a bland word - 'nice' - because it covers a whole range of desirable attributes, eg, pleasant, generous, not prone to violence, etc.

[David O'Donnell]

Ok so if its an update that you want then here goes

We started communicating by IM on Oasis.com
Graduated to texting (is there really a better feeling than getting a text from soneone who cares)
Then went onto MSN (welcome to the 21st century)
We have been practically been talking to each over 24 seven well from 6pm to 4am most nights since wednesday
webcams are a good invention eh.
We have been on virtual dates I can recommend all star bowling.
Off to see her at Milto Keynes on wednesday, but i am shitting myself as its been 20 years since I LAST dATED.
mORE TIPS PLEASE.
lEFT THE TYPOS IN COS IVE ONLY HAD 2 HOURS KIP ALL WEEK LOL

I am so tempted to take the piss here but since you seem to be honestly nervous even I can empathise with people on occasion. I have never went out on a blind date but dude, she obviously likes you since she actually wants to meet you. So whatever you have been doing in the virtual correspondence do the same when you meet her (as long as you haven't been spanking it out of her eyeline).

[Jon Corby]

Graduated to texting (is there really a better feeling than getting a text from soneone who cares)

Yes. Many.

[Charlie Reams]

Graduated to texting (is there really a better feeling than getting a text from soneone who cares)

Yes. Many.

Sending a picture of your penis to someone who doesn't care, for example.

[Matt Morrison]

Graduated to texting (is there really a better feeling than getting a text from soneone who cares)

Yes. Many.

Sending a picture of your penis to someone who doesn't care, for example.

Charlie, I do care.

[Marc Meakin]

Ok so if its an update that you want then here goes

We started communicating by IM on Oasis.com
Graduated to texting (is there really a better feeling than getting a text from soneone who cares)
Then went onto MSN (welcome to the 21st century)
We have been practically been talking to each over 24 seven well from 6pm to 4am most nights since wednesday
webcams are a good invention eh.
We have been on virtual dates I can recommend all star bowling.
Off to see her at Milto Keynes on wednesday, but i am shitting myself as its been 20 years since I LAST dATED.
mORE TIPS PLEASE.
lEFT THE TYPOS IN COS IVE ONLY HAD 2 HOURS KIP ALL WEEK LOL

I am so tempted to take the piss here but since you seem to be honestly nervous even I can empathise with people on occasion. I have never went out on a blind date but dude, she obviously likes you since she actually wants to meet you. So whatever you have been doing in the virtual correspondence do the same when you meet her (as long as you haven't been spanking it out of her eyeline).

No she insists that i do it in front of her cos she wants a few pointers on french polishing

[Lesley Hines]

Graduated to texting (is there really a better feeling than getting a text from soneone who cares)

Sending a picture of your penis to someone who doesn't care, for example.

Charlie, I do care.

Consider that an offer.

[Karen Pearson]

Absolutely nothing wrong with it Marc. In fact, I'd say it's potentially much more successful than just meeting someone in a pub.

We know several couples who have met on online dating sites and are happily married (and some with kids) and we know another couple who are getting married next year.

[Marc Meakin]

Bump.
for those who are interested.
Love is ...............spending the last week travelling back and forth to Milton Keynes from east london.
The things we do for sex...oops I mean love,
Hey no disrespect to anyone here but I've finally got a life.

[Charlie Reams]

Hey no disrespect to anyone here but I've finally got a life.

No disrespect to you, but I don't think anyone noticed you were gone.

[Marc Meakin]

Hey no disrespect to anyone here but I've finally got a life.

No disrespect to you, but I don't think anyone noticed you were gone.

Oh well if someone (mr Baxter, will do) was to start a poll which would reinforce your opinion I will flounce off in a huff , otherwise I would still like to post from time.

[Paul Howe]

Bump.
Hey no disrespect to anyone here but I've finally got a life.

Hmm, good luck to you, but I think getting a life -> girlfriend is a much healthier implication than girlfriend -> having a life.

(And yes I realise writing a post in pseudomathematical notation is not really conducive to either!)

[David O'Donnell]

Hey no disrespect to anyone here but I've finally got a life.

No disrespect to you, but I don't think anyone noticed you were gone.

Oh well if someone (mr Baxter, will do) was to start a poll which would reinforce your opinion I will flounce off in a huff , otherwise I would still like to post from time.

As long as every post doesn't involve a horrendous pun that's more than cool with me.

[Michael Wallace]

No shes female obviously, and too good looking for match.com IMO

pix plox

[Marc Meakin]

No shes female obviously, and too good looking for match.com IMO

pix plox

Don't be such a nosey Parker

[Jon Corby]

No shes female obviously, and too good looking for match.com IMO

I've changed my vote to "no".

[Scott Gillies]

No. I have nothing against internet dating, but my husband would be really pissed.

Lol thought i recognised your profile.
Try and guess which season 63 contestant is on Match.com

Scott Gillies?

Am I? lol Not that i know off