The dating world has become so condusive to anything but reality. There are so many dating apps, I feel bad for any newcomer in this game. It will literally make your head spin. There's an app for lonely farmers in the country, (www.farmersonly.com), people who have diaper fetishes (www.dailydiapers.com) and doucheholes who want to cheat on their spouse (www.ashleymadison.com). What about us normal people who don't get turned on by shitty adult diapers and hay? I've pretty much been through the ringer when it comes to the online dating sites. However, I'll give my opinion of the ones that I've used.
Match.com - This site is sort of a conundrum because this is one of the only sites that I constantly hear from my friends, "If I was going to online date, I'd do Match.com because you actually have to pay for it, so there's better quality guys on it". Fucking false. Don't think that just because dudes pay $30/month for a subscription, they're any better than the dudes on the free sites. In fact, I laugh at anyone who is willing to pay any monetary value for online dating - this site reeks of desperate dudes who have been online dating for years and finally gave up on the free sites. Let me sum up a Match.com profile: "Looking for the 'The One' after being single for so long. All my friends are getting married and my mom is heckling me, so I figured it was a good time to settle down and start taking dating seriously". Ugh - barf. I think I just fell asleep. These are the kinda dudes that either went to community college and just never made it out of Bolingbrook or they have a good job, but they're ugly as sin. They're the kinda dudes that still suggest dinner and movie for a first date because they're not creative enough to think of anything else. Also, their mom may or may not still wait up for them on the family's 20-year-old Lazy Boy to get home from a night out.
OkCupid - I am currently using OkCupid. I have realized one thing - it's just like going to the bar. Everyone becomes a fucking MUTE when you even show the slightest bit of interest in someone. I've only reached out probably less than 5 times to guys on there, AFTER they've already looked at my profile a bunch of times and each time, their profile is deactivated within 2 days of me sending a message. Also, OkCupid is the land of 'let's look at my profile a billion times, rate me 5 stars, and 'like' me, but let's never send me a message'. It's like the land of 'how big of a pussy can I be'? Let me sum up an OkCupid profile: "Not looking to for anything serious - just got out of a serious relationship and a bad breakup. I like to drink, smoke pot and I'm open to poly relationships. Message me if you like <insert obscure movie/actor that no girl in their right mind would ever know>". And quit with the "bonus points if...." This isn't Chuckie Cheeses - I don't give a shit about your bonus points. If you're not physically spitting Chuckie Cheese tokens or tickets at me for a prize that would probably be more fun than hanging out with you, then don't come at me, bro.
Tinder - I am also currently using Tinder. To be honest, I use it mainly for blog/research purposes. However, I love the fact that I can swipe your ass left and I don't ever have to talk to you or endure your innappropraite messages about sliding down my panties and taking me from behind. A lot of poeple think Tinder is just for fucking & hooking up. I mean, I beg to differ, but to each their own. To be honest, I've only been on 1 date from Tinder and we knew each other from High School, so I don't know if that really counts. But this is also the land of Helen Kellers. I'm currently sitting here with 129 "matches" which means, we both swiped each other to the Right, indicating we're both into each other. And how many of them have actually cooresponded with me? Maybe 7. These dudes are also flakes -- to the eneth degree. I've made multiple plans with people on there and each time, they come up with some bullshit excuse. It's quite literally is a meat market with no accountability.
What kind of site do I wish existed? TacoBellLovers.com. Where we could dab the Fourth Meal's meat juice off of each other's lips while our Baja Blast straws intertwine like our legs do sitting across the pastel-colored booth. <3
I always tell my newly single girlfriends - online dating is like when you have reached rock bottom, you've resorted to calling your cat your daughter (which, I do), you've exhausted all avenues of meeting dudes organically & you literally cannot be emotionally attached to anyone or anything that may happen to you on any site. I mean, it's sad, but true. I'd love to meet someone organically out & about, and I haven't given up hope that will happen for me one day, but for now, this is just pure entertainment & some of the shit I see on there helps me get through the work day.