I am not opposed to people meeting online. I mean, technically that’s how I got to know Mr. M. My friend told me about him and I looked up his work, friended him on Vimeo, and the rest is history. But real dating sites kind of scare me. Like a monster under my bed, I know there’s nothing to be scared of, but it’s because I don’t look under there and create my own scenarios of what lies beneath. But it’s not really the site, it’s the idea of…dating. I’m not a good “dater.” It’s just a fact. I don’t know how to really “date” people…I get to know someone and then I either want to be with them or I don’t; a common affliction of a serial monogamist.
Mr. M is the first relationship in my life where we have taking things uber slow, but not dumb slow. I’ve known him since March, and usually by this time we’d be saying the big four letter word (you know, LOooooVE) to each other. But we’re holding off. We haven’t even talked about it. And I know why…because we feel the same way about it. We want to wait for it.
All this to say/ramble on, I think dating sites are really great for a lot of people. I read this on Mashable.com today and it got me thinking about all of the ways you can meet someone. Who’s to say one way is better than the next? Have you ever dated someone you met online? Would you recommend it?
Yours world wide web-wondering,
25swf
25 Single White Female 
As a fairly savvy (and much older than you) serial dater, I used eharmony as an effort to find that one in a sea of douches that is Dallas. So far, it hasn’t panned out like I thought, but it’s better than bars and clubs (oh, and the dreaded set-up).
I’ve heard so many awesome stories about eharmony and sites of the like. If anything it’s good to just meet people, and if it goes awfully…well, there’s good blogging stories there 😉