Alternative Ways For Meeting Singles Online

Aug 28, 2009 11 Comments »

Meeting singles online should be easy, and why not? We’re all over the net. What else do we have to do between dates? Typically the online singles pickup scene is limited to dating sites, which makes sense. That’s where all us eager-to-get-out-there singles are congregating. All you have to do is log onto one of those sites, post a profile and then start the window shopping.

Stories about guys and girls meeting singles that way abound and some dating sites like to boast high numbers of love-connections or even marriages resulting from their services. Because of that, and the general ease and intrigue of the thing, there are few single people left who haven’t tried out a dating website. Most of them can even boast at least one or two dates resulting from the experience. While dating sites are naturally the main way people find dates over the internet, it’s certainly not the only way. Virtually any website or internet tool with any kind of social networking aspect can and has been used for dating in one way or another.

Stories abound about people meeting through websites like Facebook. Sure, they have tons of singles groups of their own that people join and browse, but that’s not what we’re talking about here. Just like the olden days when you’d go out for dinner only to end up getting close with that friend of a friend who’d been making eyes at you all night, people are hitting on their friend’s friends virtually now. Have you ever received one of those messages, the ones from a man or a woman who’d apparently been browsing down a friend’s friend-list only to fall in love with your picture?

It’s apparently more common than most of us think. Chances are, if you know a few avid Facebook users, you likely know someone who’s tried this out. Still, that’s hardly where the limits of meeting singles online ends. People are meeting and hooking up through online gaming, message boards, blogs and who knows what else. Remember when ICQ ruled the social web? Surely you at least know someone who got lucky after hitting the find random user option.

As for myself, my successes have all been limited to dating sites and the occasional grocery store aisle. That’s not to say I haven’t tried testing my luck by flirting with people playing against me in some virtual Scrabble setting, it’s just that it’s never worked out. More and more though, couples are taking the chance at moving their virtual connections into the real world from sites like Second Life or the apparently romantic world of World of Warcraft.

So to ask if you’ve ever tried meeting singles online would probably be a bit of a no brainer, but to ask if you’ve ever met someone online through any unconventional means is something else altogether. For a full list of Single Events visit, http://www.meetmarketadventures.com. Share your own story or spread some gossip by clicking on the comments link below.

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