do you take dating on Mingle?

I mean I play on here all the time. I go off on what I call "love tangents" which result in bad poetry and such but I have only had one person I was really serious about and you guys know who that was. The first one. The musician/engineer/politician who bailed after we broke up. Otherwise, I have just played.

Also, do you date off site? In real life, the majority of my dates are off site. I say I date mostly inside my own religion "nerd". Where do you find your dates?

Ive never met anyone on here. If you look at my stats I have been here for a couple years but only have a thousand posts. Been busy with school. The past few weeks is the loongest I have spoke. And have not dated in over a year..been busy with school and location has not helped (just got to San Diego last year..have not lived here long). Given the opertunity I prolly would take it serious enough for an actual relationship most likely. And might feel disapointed if not looking at it the same way and i was interested.

I'm pretty much just here for the forums. Unfortunately, there really are not many locals here that are actually active on the site. I have gone on awesome dates with someone from here, but because of the distance that did not work.

"Online dating" moves off site as soon as you meet. For me, it does not count as dating until we meet in person. But yes, the dates I go on do not happen because of this site.

I don't date...not into all the stupid games that go with it! I make friends everywhere I go online & offline! If it's meant to be...the friendship will grow into more!

Usually in central booking, although i found out real quick that in order to expand my dating pool I needed to get in-processed at diff. Times and shifts. Those booking babes got in going.

I'm always glad to see it working for other people -- that's the whole purpose of the site. I take it seriously for them, because some of my favorite people have found "the one" here, and that's a beautiful thing.

I really don't take it too seriously for myself, though. I haven't been able to run across anyone who is compatible and close enough to actually meet.



No. No prospects in real life, either.

Haven't had a real date for about 40 years.

Ha, well everyone knows that I do in fact date off the site, err, try to. Working on actually going on the "date" part of it. If something happens here, then its cool. Most of the guys (not counting any nice ones who I talk to often that know me) that message me, start off by talking about my looks. A few people here and there just looksee and pass on by. TONS of nudges though. I don't know. LOL Everyone I want is so dang far away.

I have not dated in about three years or so. My work schedule gets in the way of others. I have met some friends on here and will continue I am sure.

Well if it makes you happy, Lex, Bri and I had an actual real relationship and we were very close. And he really did offer me the universe but you know me, I am that crazy CA girl who runs away from marriage proposals into traffic. I am sure lots of woman would have died for what I could have had with him. He is very much real and a cool person.

I can't take online dating that serously, for the fact anyony could be anything that there not telling you. You might think i'm being too wary, but i'm keeping myself safe, after what happened on another site. I took in prisoners THAT time as i was naive, well not anymore.

Interaction on mingle2 is the only "dating" I do nowadays.
But I don't count it because it does not involve actually
meeting or frottage and not even too many impure thoughts most
of the time.

I agree with you. Bri was the only one that when I got to know him was actually BETTER than what his profile said. I mean so many of these guys say they have a job. They are unemployed. They say they have no kids. Talk to them long enough they have kids. They have no assets. They have no life. Etc. Etc. Etc. I mean truthfully no one on here REALLY knows me. They think they do. Even those who have talked to me at length. I have been doing computers a long time and BBS long before the WWW. I don't put a whole lot of credence into people who are behind user names. I know that offends a lot of people. I mean on a BBS, I used to let one of the OPS assume my identity for the purpose of busting people. I kid you not. He was a friend. Sometimes you got me, sometimes you got Woody. You just never knew if you were a normal end user.

I am an extremist though. I play with people too much. I go off on tangents but would I really really get involved? Unlikely. I mean I will even go as far as meeting someone. But in reality, I stick with programmers.

If I was to take dating seriously I would have to give up the delicate balance I have with workaholism and womanizing. In the dating world I would have to give up playing with dolls and chasing women. Playing dress up would be out and I would probably be motivated to just have one sexual identity. So many of my bad character defects would interfere with dating and miss seeing so many catfights. I would miss the opportunity of telling so many women that I love you, too. Dating would greatly impede my social life and I would have to take my job more seriously.

At one time it was I wanted to do was to be in a serious relationship but being in a relationship with just one woman now would be devastating. This way I can be whoever I choose to be and it doesn't affect anyone outside of my job.

Mingle has always been, first and foremost, a place where I enjoy the forums and my friends.

Yes, I have dated from here and from off site. The dates I have had from off site have generally been people I met through work.

Anyone anywhere can have things that they are not telling you. This is not just specific to online. You just have to be a bit wary and use common sense.

Exactly.

I take NOTHING seriously on mingle

quite right then

Oh also....

I mean it's the internet for crissakes....

Dating=barbaric practice.
Like Ruthie, I take Mingle2 very seriously
as a social networking site.
I have made the bestest friends :-)
I always try to hook them up.
Being in a committed relationship, I don't
really use the dating side.
Hella fun to watch though :-)

Exactly