In light of the recent fizzling out that occurred between myself and the 35-year old, I've decided to try my hand at online dating again. This time, however, I am not using OkCupid, I'm using
plentyoffish, which was actually (kind of) recommended to me a long long time ago by someone who commented on one of my old posts about online dating (sorry, I forget exactly who and I can't find the post they commented on now...).
I don't know how active I will be, as I'm actually not really having trouble meeting people right now. But a friend of mine who gave me endless amounts of crap for trying online dating in the first place has put herself on OkCupid, and we were looking at it last night and I decided to try something else, kind of as an experiment to see if other sites are better. See, with OkCupid, I was not impressed with the caliber of the men. Most of them were... not very smart (to put it delicately) and the few who were smart were boring. So I joined plentyoffish last night.
Here are my impressions so far: plentyoffish claims to be the largest online dating site in the world. I don't know if that's true, but I'm much more impressed with it than with OkCupid so far. The caliber of men seems to be much higher, or at least, it seemed like everyone I clicked on (though I didn't click on that many people I suppose) had a masters degree and worked in some high power career. Of the 15(ish) guys that I looked at, most of the guys were in great shape (it actually makes me a little self-conscious and feeling like I need to head to the gym) and seemed like interesting people based on their profiles. However, plentyoffish doesn't have the same amount of compatibility testing and such, and most people seem to leave their profiles relatively sparse ("message me if you want to get to know me" seems to be a common tag line). I sent out a few messages last night and I received one message within 10 minutes of signing up (although not from someone I was interested in). So we'll see how it goes. I will keep you guys posted here, as always.
Comments (4)
Hm. I really like the concept of online dating. But I fear that there's just so much stigma, that many great guys are too afraid to get on and find the awesome girls like you.
I wish it was more acceptable in our culture.
Hey, I've said it before--there's nothing wrong with online dating, and a whole lot more normal people are doing it than you'd think. I met my fiance on there and he's relatively normal
. I will say that most sites have more poor matches than good ones, but hey...you really only need one good guy, right? ;) Good luck with your second round, and don't give up. It really can be a good way to meet people.
-Katie
I've actually tried something similar to it. Didn't gain much from it except for an acquaintance, but it was fun getting to know people. I would give it another try just because I enjoy talking to new people and learning about them.
Much luck!
hahaha, if i was an intelligent man, i'd join plentyoffish rather than okcupid. just because of the name. I'm curious to see how it turns out for you. I joined something similar but for my local area and was sorely disappointed.