These are the common stereotypes I have heard from people: Most females on online dating sites are either hopeless romantics or very unattractive. Most males on online dating sites are already married or involved in a serious relationship and looking for "extracurricular activities" or they are computer geeks that are smooth with the computer keyboard but are social inept in person.
DISCLAIMER: In no way do I endorse these stereotypes. I am just repeating what I have heard from people who dislike online dating.

I feel like i am desperate enough to actually try online dating but i feel like such a loser because im 20 years old and i can’t get a boyfriend… not even a boyfriend a friend thats aboy. I feel like a failure at reality and wondering should i try online dating???

is it dangerious and does anybody thats my age do that?

I have online dated once, it didnt work out. Should I stick to regular dating or online?

After dating this (supposed) great guy for three months, while at his place I catch him on the computer on a dating website talking to other girls (I’m sitting five feet from him!). At first he tries telling me he was on Facebook and then admits he was on a dating website talking to "old friends". People he knew before he met me. Says he’s not trying to meet new people, isn’t responding to anything, isn’t dating people, etc. I decide to give him the benefit of the doubt and let it go. A week or so later it’s still eating at me so a girlfriend of mine puts of a profile of her own. Not more than 15 minutes of it being up he writes! What makes this worse is that she didn’t even write him to try to bait him – he initiated contact. Tells her he likes her profile and they should talk. Some chit-chat back and forth. He tells her he’s been on there for two months and has been on a few dates (though he’s been telling me I’ve been his girlfriend for the last three!. She forwards me the email which I in turn forward to him to let him know that I know what he’s been up to. I add a small note saying I believed you and trusted you and all along you were just playing games. He responds, tries to turn it on me telling me it was immature what I did. ?? Let’s not speak of the stuff he’s been doing, the lies he’s been telling. There’s some more back and forth and every time he said something, his story was different. No he didn’t date anyone, yes he went on dates, he only responded to one girl, he only went to meet another but it wasn’t a date they just talked (whatever that means), etc. I don’t know what to believe. So now I start thinking about the sex part of it and even though we always used condoms I start worrying about how many other girls he’s been sleeping with while with me. I text him a few days later and ask him to go get tested and let me know the results. He asks me if I have anything which I don’t respond to – one because I’ve already told him I was clean and have medical papers from my doctor to prove it – and two, if I tell him I just want him to go just for my peace of mind I know he won’t go! So I ask him again just to go and let me know. Now it becomes this big back and forth. Keeps asking me what it is I had that I didn’t tell him about. He asks why I want him to go. I tell him because it’s important! He starts telling me I’m just sick and twisted for playing games with him. I tell him I’m not playing games, this is important, that I know it’s important to him and if I didn’t care about him (and me) I wouldn’t be bothering with this – especially considering the way he treated me while we were together and how he was just cheating the entire time.

Anyway, now he won’t talk to me and I’m feeling bad. I’ve tried to reach out to him to tell him that I’m not doing this to freak him out but the fact is I’m freaked out too! I’m worried that he may have given me something. When I asked him how he knew he didn’t have anything – his response was "because I wasn’t sleeping with anyone else while I was with you". I tell him he doesn’t need to be sleeping with multiple partners at the same time in order to catch something! He could have picked something up before. I asked him if he’s gone to the doctor – no response from him. I asked him again how he knows, he says stuff like "I already told you I didn’t". Considering his behavior with the dating and seeing and doing who knows what else with other people – I’m just supposed to accept answers like this from him and be fine with it? What do I do? I’m not okay with that. And the worse part of it is – I do care for him still and wish we would just be able to talk things out. But considering he’s not responding to any of my calls or texts – he obviously doesn’t care, right?
We’re definitely broken up. This was over when he started talking to my friend on the website. But should I not feel bad about freaking him out about asking him to go get tested for std’s? I kinda’ do – but who knows what he was up to!

ok. so im single now. unemployed recently. but im going to school online. therefore i dont get out to meet people much. what online dating sites do you suggest to meet honast people, not scammers, that is free??? fyi… im not just looking for dating but new friends as well. im lonely dammit

i find its for the worse as from my experience i find girls (not saying boys arent, i just dont go there ) are shyer and hide behind there phones and computers to explain there feelings more, making it harder to talk about things face to face….do you find it irritating or do you prefer it?

I met this guy online a while ago, and we are now dating. The only thing is, he still has his dating profile online. I want to ask him to delete it, but i dont want to sound controlling or jelous, but i also dont want him to be going behind my back on there and meeting other girls. Is it wrong for me to ask him to delete it?? How can i ask him w/o sounding so jelous?

My boyfriend, a 22-year-old computer science and math major, has a birthday coming up? We’ve been dating for about 4 months. Any suggestions?
My boyfriend, a 22-year-old computer science and math major, has a birthday coming up? We’ve been dating for about 4 months. Any suggestions?

Update: Thanks for the answers so far! Any ideas for non computer related gifts?

…sort of Apple or Macintosh)?
I think the guy is trying to date his new neighbor. The computer somehow becomes semi-sentient and then I think it "dies" at the end when the two fall in love. I could be completely wrong.

Has anybody tried online dating? If so did you have a good experience with it? Is online dating a good way to meet someone? I have been thinking about trying online dating. Are there any online dating website that I should look into? I have been thinking about joining match.com and yahoo personals.