Have you been online dating during the pandemic... be honest now?

[OlderAndWiser]

Yes, I have met two women through online dating sites. The first lives about an hour away from me and we had three in person dates - with masks and only hand holding after using hand sanitizer. She then rejected me because she was not yet "seeing into my soul." And that woman is a tenured professor at the University of Florida! It's hard to see into someone's soul after three masked dates. Obviously, she was a little bit kooky.

The second woman lives 850 miles away! Bumble shows you people who are near you now even if they don't live near you, so she and I started conversing before I realized that she lived so far away. By that point, I was very hooked on getting to know more about her. She visited me in my hometown at the beginning of October, I then visited her earlier this month, and we are now planning our next rendezvous near my hometown. She is recently retired from an airline so she has the time to travel and can fly for free (on a space available basis) so I am looking forward to spending more time from her.

When she and I met, we threw caution to the wind, put our masks in our pockets, held hands and kissed, and we are both still alive!

[BlessedMan77]

Online dating in general can be a bunch of wasted time. It's only effective if its a precursor to dating in real life. This is because, when you date someone online, you've never met the person, you don't know them from Adam, and you know not what the person does in their spare time, or away from the camera. You've never had to physically live, see, and deal with that person. Thus, online dating should only be used as a precursor to physical dating, since online dating in and of itself is not an end-all for dating and marriage.

(All just a trick to get you to be absorbed into your phones and be anti-social. If you question what I've said, go see how many young people have their nose buried in their phones and could give two fuzzy-rats butts less about the world. Go and see.)

If your dating online because you're afraid of a virus that cannot infect a person (as per CDC report), and a virus that the CDC could only use to get a monkey (of which was already sick, and their cells weakened), I have a question for you, you were never afraid of viruses worse than Covid, such as Ebola, H1N1, etc. Why now are you running around in fear from a virus that has only killed the same amount of people as the seasonal flu? No less, 75-85% of those who were infected with covid, according to CDC statistics, wore masks "frequently or often". No less, 94% of those who died from Covid, as per CDC statistics again, were both very old (elderly) and had 2-3 other serious health problems on top of it.

[Cynicaldreamer]

Coach has jokes today I see!No sir, not going there! I'm still on my dating hiatus until I find a man worthy of my awesomeness!

Okay honestly I'm not ready to deal with the nonsense of online dating again, not right now. I'll see how 2021 looks; let me get through this year in one piece first before I reconsider dating.

[AllieOops]

Please don't use eHarmony! As a former member of it' old Dating Advice forums I found out that eHarmony was lame and gave you matches that hadn't been on for years. Me and the other members of the forums said it sucked. That is one reason it did away with the dating advice forums. We all said it sucked!

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Nope cuz don't do online dating, never have, never will, pandemic or not...

[AccidentalCompliance]

Yeah, I downloaded Tinder, bumble and hinge just so I had people to talk to over lockdown and now I'm using them to find girls for hookups (mainly Tinder) and it's going pretty well, met a couple girls and one who has stayed on as more long term friends with benefits

[dcblah58]

Nah man, I keep getting the god dang ghosters and bots. Maybe i need premium or some crap or I'm just ugly as balls lmao. Girls on here take hours to respond and aren't willing to respond with any good convos after I put my effort into some of these texts.

[Jamie05rhs]

I check into OKCupid once in a while. But I try to avoid it for the most part because it's awkward every time I go on there. I keep getting messages from Malaysians and Filipinas and African girls. And like, I'm just not really attracted to them (no offense.). But it's my fault because I said in my profile that I was open to dating anyone in the world.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Call me different if you like but when it comes to dating I like the real deal & I like to meet people face to face or nowadays mask to mask. I like to meet people & date people the old way & not the online dating website way.

[Oigit]

I downloaded a app and its been sitting on my phone for awhile now. I'll be honest dating is something I have been going back and forth on for awhile. That's probably the reason I have not uninstalled it.

[silvermoon84]

No different than before to be honest, which is disappointing. I meet a lot of neggers and desperate guys expecting to get serious before even going on a date. It feels like they’re saying “you’re who I want, now return my feelings now or I’ll find someone else who will”, which makes me wonder if they’re catfishes.

[poneglyphs]

yes and it's still the same no matches, keep swiping until my finger hurts, and changing profile pics and bios to make them exciting but nothing?

[Anonymous]

Do you mean if we're using dating apps, or if we're using social media to keep in contact with the person we're dating?

[evangeline777]

No. I hadn't done it before either. Online dating lacks everything dating is really about, you think you have a bigger pool but in reality you don't.

[el_Te_de_la_Rosa]

Nope. Because I found someone there and we move to other channel to get to know about each other right now. 😎

[IAMNathanael]

"not I... "
Said the littlest leprechaun



Honestly though, it's not really my thing.

[Daniela1982]

Free sites suck as there are a lot of catfishes on it as they have no money to lose.

[triff]

No never actually tried that Only the fakers have momentarily have tricked me into a premium site

[Jjpayne]

I tried a bit with a considerable lack of response so I gave up 😞

[lilyanony1]

Nah not even. I have ko desire to let another man take the piss out of me

[menina]

No, I never used dating apps and I'm not interested in using them now. It would be a disaster!

[zagor]

I went on one date, spent much more than I usually do on a first date (my choice though) and apparently neither of us was interested in a second date. That is it for the year.

[Jojobear]

No I’m married and in fact we got married in October lol during a pandemic.

[tartaarsaus]

I’m probably moving abroad in like 7 months so I don’t really want to start a relationship now. Hence I don’t attempt to do it on online dating apps.