Monday, July 21, 2008

Are girls on online dating websites weird?

By weird, I mean they are a bit socially inept and perhaps, delusional in the type of guys they can get. Funny how I meet some of these girls when I'm out and about. Then a few days or weeks later, guy friends show me who they have been talking to online (yes, I do have socially awkward friends who find girls through online dating websites), and sure enough, those exact girls are on those sites!

I have heard that people have met strippers and even porn actresses from online dating websites, but from my personal experience, I have yet to meet any hot girl offline who is also on online dating websites. I know girls who go on those online dating websites are extremely picky considering their looks and/or personalities. Of course, these girls (in their offline-life) would have a whole bunch of guys giving them unwarranted attention but none of them are man enough to take these girls home.

Then I started wondering why some of these girls go online. Let's face it, the majority of them are fat. I don't mean a little bit chunky, some are morbidly obese, and a few realize that so they resort to Craig's List (I think he needs to pay me as an affiliate for all my referrals!). The rest, some girls I know from offline seem to be decent in looks but their personalities, they seem a bit off. If I can find one group of guys who are similar to these girls, lair guys would be comparable.

I think these two groups are similar because most lair guys and girls on online dating websites tend to be people who have difficulties socializing with others in offline situations. So the last frontier for social acceptance for these people would be to go online to increase their exposure to other people. If you are familiar with the American history, you've probably read about settlers heading out West and some even to Alaska. These people are of a different breed than those who continued and made something of themselves in old cities like Boston, NYC, Chicago,... Of course, within this group of people, you find guys like the Unabomber in Montana, and their offsprings like Ted Bundy. I'll have to research how many serial killers are from the West vs. East coast.

Now, I'm not equating lair guys and girls on online dating sites as potential serial killers and sociopaths. I am suggesting that they are deviants from the social norm. Not that being abnormal is bad, many geniuses are abnormal, e.g. Albert Einstein was one smart cookie but then he also married his first cousin. So please feel free to send in your personal experiences if you have found some interesting and physically attractive mates from online.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'd have to say you're wrong for most this, for the very reason you're speculating, having never dated online yourself. I'm not some socially awkward weirdo, I've dated and same night closed a slew of girls from regular bar/club approaches, but I've also had a bunch of luck online. Why would you ever want to limit your exposure to more girls? I'm going to restrict myself to just approaches? Online game can go on while I'm still at work, so I for sure won't be stopping. And there are plenty of good looking girls online, with equally cool personalities, you just have to alter your game to get them, because I will agree all the girls are getting messaged on these sites, hot, fat, obese, whale-like, whatever. And if anything I've had more first night closes from online game than real, if mostly just because I can 'pre-game' them so much by the team we meet they're already 90% the way there. Do not stick with any assumption about modern online dating, the stigma is dead, this isn't 1998, it's 2008, and if you know what you're doing it's a quality goldmine.

DDD said...

From anecdotal evidence, girls going online want to get laid more so than girls going out to bars with friends; I mean MANY friends... as in a big group, contrary to girls out alone or with one or two female friends.

But I suspect girls online tend to be lower quality in terms of looks, personalities,... than girls who have plenty of friends and have no problem meeting people offline.