Dating sites - do they actually work?

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O boy...o boy....heated negotiations.

I messaged a woman once and she told me "I can tell you right now, I'm not interested. No one wants to play the 50 question game. I'll give you some advice, next time start with a funny pickup line." I replied back, but forgot what I wrote. Yes, women are that bitchy here.

If they seem too good to be on a dating site....trust me, they aren't.

What dating site do these women who don't want children use? I'm not interested in tiny money pits and time sinks.

MMO's are a real bore.

I use OKCupid, PoF, and Tinder. I like OKC the best because they have literally thousands of questions to answer, so you can get a feel for who a person is outside of the profile before even sending them the first message. There's been a lot of times I've thought someone sounded awesome, but after reading some of their answers... uh, no, never mind. *clicks hide button*. Unfortunately, that seems to easily be the least popular of the sites I use. My only specifications for narrowing down my search were "Single" and "Monogamous", and I ended up with only five or six matches. And no, going to the "quickmatch" page doesn't help, because it only shows me girls who live in other states.

PoF has way more people on it, women included, but the site isn't built nearly as well as OKC. The regular Matches page doesn't give you any info on the user, so you have to open their profile-- and then close it again because she lives 100 miles away and WHY ARE YOU EVEN SHOWING ME THIS ONE?!?! The "Ultramatch" page is better because it gives you a bit more info before you click on them, but for me at least it tends to still only match me to people I'm not a good match for. Maybe that's my fault, since I like reading, writing, Netflix, and video games, while living in a place where everyone else loves huntin', fishin', four wheelin', pickup trucks, and FOOOOTBAAAALLL! The "Meet Me" page has proven more useful than anything else, since it gives me women one at a time, tells me where they live and what they're looking for, and lets me open their profile to investigate a little. I mean, it still mostly gives me girls who live in other states, but at least I'm getting to see them!

Tinder is Tinder. Not much more to say. You swipe right, they swipe left. They swipe right, you send them a message, and they ask you for your social security number, bank information, personal address, and the blood of your firstborn child.


Honestly, I think the biggest problem with dating sites these days is that, like others have said, most of the people on there are on their because they couldn't get a boy/girlfriend "IRL", but at the same time are convinced that they deserve only the best humanity has to offer. Like, no offense to anyone here, but if you're twenty years old and so fat that you have to use the scooters at Walmart, you probably shouldn't say that you'll only date athletic men with six packs and perfect teeth. JUSSAYIN