Posted by ghost on January 9, 2006, at 21:31:36
In reply to dating questio???, posted by reese7194 on January 9, 2006, at 7:49:15
hi doug,
i just wanted to throw in my two cents about nolongerlonely.com ...maybe it's different being a female, but i didn't feel like it was a very safe site. i talked to a few people from there (4 or 5) on the phone after chatting for awhile, and all of them had very long very scary criminal records. i'm all for giving people a second chance in life, but a couple of those guys would not stop calling to the point where i considered changing my number. (thankfully it was a cell and could not be reverse-searched to find my address!) i asked that they remove my profile from the site and haven't gone back. this was over a year ago, and every few months i'll still get a call from one of those guys that i don't answer.
i don't know if it's just because i was an outnumbered female or what, but it just didn't feel like a very safe site to me.
as far as getting out with people, call me a nerd and a shut-in, but i have the best luck meeting people over the internet in other ways. i chat on IRC, and meet a fair amount of people there. you might even want to try craigslist.com since you live in a major metro area where there are lots of people looking for friends. (here in michigan, i'm pretty isolated.) plus you can kind of "screen" people with their profiles and messages and whatnot before you invest the stress and time into meeting them in person. (for me that's a big deal.) there's always myspace.com-- once you go there, you're hooked. and if you do go there, add me, username deadgrrrl ;)
i sure do miss the northeast. i hope you find someone cool to go for coffee with or something. it's a nice place to be to enjoy with someone. :)
ghost
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