Posted on 02/14/2006 4:51:50 AM PST by misterrob
Sonia Paz, a divorced 33-year-old single mother, jumped into the online dating scene about two years ago.
“Being a single mother, I didn’t have the energy to go to a bar or club,” she said. “So I figured I’d post an ad (online). I got a response and it was great.”
She dated and even met someone she fell hard for. Though she dated him for more than a year, she said he remained aloof and she felt as though she didn’t know him very well.
When she mentioned this to him, she said he would respond with “cutesy” answers that she “bought because (she) really wanted it to work out.”
But in the end, it did not.
Then a friend told her about TrueDater.com.
TrueDater.com is a free online dating review and community Web site that connects users from popular sites to share information and review truthfulness of dating profiles. Recently, TrueDater.com celebrated its firstanniversary and expanded its service to include truth reviews for users of eHarmony and MySpace.com. The site also lets you view or submit truth reviews for users of Match.com, Yahoo Personals, hotornot.com, planetout.com and blacksingles.com. According to TrueDater.com spokesman Jamie Diamond, membership has grown more than 50 percent in the past six months.
Paz signed up and entered a truth review about the man she had been seeing.
“I didn’t post anything mean, because you are not allowed,” she said. “But I did say that I didn’t think he was being honest. I also said when I asked him direct questions, he wouldn’t give me direct answers.”
“Turns out that not only was he married, but he has two kids,” she said.
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I smell lawsuits coming ...
Many people who post profiles on these dating services turn out to be married. Note I said many, not all.
If you have kids, watch out for myspace.com. There are a lot of troubling articles regarding a child's safety on that site.
The other thing is that if you are getting to know a prospective date by writing emails, it will take a while to find out whether the person is really reading what you are writing or just skimming it.
I wonder if Ted Kennedy has an entry there.
Drives unsafely, poor swimmer...
Granted, your daughter is an adult. But ask her if she can deny that much of the blogs on myspace are devoted to overtly sexual interests, drug and alcohol use, and a host of other profane subject matter. If she denies it, she's naive; if she doesn't, ask her why she'd want to hang out on such a site?
I have a funny story about emails. While waiting for my divorce to be finalized, I started chatting with a man I met in a chat room. We corresponded for approximately around 6 months. He lived in one area, I had moved to an area closer to his location after the divorce became finalized. My mom was sick, and I wanted to be closer to her. It had nothing to do with him.
There were little things that bugged me, though. One was that he wanted to meet for lunch in another part of town, instead of his neck of the woods. Hmmm. Well, after 9/11 he sent a heartfelt liberal screed about how he and "Katie" hoped and prayed that America wouldn't go to war over this. He then realized his mistake, and emailed me immediately, telling me "Katie" and he were just friends. I said that I hoped that we turned the ME into a GD sheet of glass, and nice knowing ya. Lolol, give em enough rope, and they'll hang themselves ;-)
LOL! Oh a STUPID lout! They are the best kind.
18 isn't as bad as 13. My bf's daughters have/had profiles on there, and he blew up at the content. They told him they were just goofing off, but my God, they were not nice profiles. The older one tried to tell him that one of her friends changed it as a joke. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
We both know what kind of people troll those sites, too. Their mother is a mind blown idiot and apparently doesn't care.
Hahaha, he really stepped in it :-D
Thank the Lord for my enduring paranoia.
:-) Good thing, too!
My kids have joined facebook.com. It's a site similar to myspace; however, only college students with verifiable college or junior college email addresses can join. I've read their profiles and comments posted by their friends and it's fairly harmless. Predictably, most of the posts concern beer. ;-)
LOL!
Funny how they forget about blind copying emails.... I dated one guy who sent out batch jokes all the time.
But all the addy's were up there to see. And you get a bit suspicious when the other names are "Hotlips4u", "Sexigrl", "LookN4luv" etc.
Seems he saw the email as a way he could multitask, if ya know wadda mean >:>
LOL! Well then it would be an honest site. :-D
"Jilted and insulted, the other party decides to write a bunch of lies about you."
....and he has an oozing rash on his.........
That's true but they have some rules about being mean. However, there are certain code words that can be employed to warn people off....
I've never heard of facebook, but it sounds a lot safer than myspace. There have been quite a few complaints about that site in the last several months, with some of the articles posted here on FR.
what I found with the women were divorced with kid(s) and while some were responsible around them, some were not, some were serial daters who talked a good game but had no ability to create a relationship, some women who were relying on the fact that since they were women they could just sit back and wait for the men to come their way. Didn't find any married ones though.
There are plenty of married men out there. Too bad it takes a few months or longer to figure that out.
Oh, and everyone lies to some degree or another
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