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Meeting/Dating Before the Cyber World  

kcclaire0923 68F  
410 posts
1/8/2017 9:29 am
Meeting/Dating Before the Cyber World


I was reflecting the other day on how times and our world has changed so much. I miss the days where a guy would see a girl, decide he wanted to get to know her and actually went up to her and asked for her number so he could call her for a date. Most times it was groups of at a coffee shop after school or at the movies or maybe even at a shopping center (mall) or maybe Disneyland or Knott's Berry Farm... Innocent times.

One summer my girlfriends and I were driving to the beach in San Diego and a car load of guys pulled up next to us. They asked where we were going and we said "follow us to the beach!" and we all had a great time that day. One couple got together after meeting that day and are still married now. We didn't have to worry about someone pulling out any drugs or needles; or guns to kidnap one of us. Those things just didn't happen back in those safe days.

Other times we went to places like Red Onion or Bobby McGee's in Orange County which was a restaurant/dance establishment that had live music and when the band took a break they showed music videos on the big screens...this was in the 80's. Guys we met and danced with ended up going to breakfast with us to Denny's in the wee hours of the morning after the place closed. I met a great guy from those times and dated him for three years....Oh how times have changed! I miss those days so much. The world is just not a safe one anymore.

Now you have to consider that one can be anything they want to be behind a computer screen on dating and adult sites. But when reality sets in and it comes to an agreed meet in a public place he/she either doesn't show up or they have been deceitful and look and act NOTHING like they did online. I have always just been ME; on and offline and nothing more or less. But the number of men I have met who are NOT...have all gone to the "bug jar" and blocked from further contact. Either they are 20 or more years older than their pictures; they are a smoker when they said they didn't smoke; they are MARRIED when they insisted they were divorced or single...and the list goes on.

On the flip side though, I have met a few in person over a five year period of the cyber dating/meeting and who were exactly who they said they were. So there is still hope for us all......like a friend's Mother told me, we just have to get through the all crumbs to get to the loaf of real bread....lol

Happy New Year everyone!
{=} {=} KCClaire0923

kcclaire0923 68F  
822 posts
1/8/2017 9:35 am

I still love flirting too....see a handsome man looking at me or passing by I will smile big and say hello. Or start a conversation when I can with someone attractive. It's so much fun! {=} {=} {=}


40Deuce 46M
5725 posts
1/8/2017 9:39 am

I don't think that's always deceit , I think it's hard to get to know someone without actually meeting them . Some people are liars of course , but it's easy to get a wrong impression about someone just through interacting with them online .

I for one am grateful that things have changed because a non-drinker and non-partier I had a really hard time meeting ANYONE back in the day

But yeah , it does seems sometimes like online dating is 97% married folks looking for some side action

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s2ndegree 65M
9800 posts
1/8/2017 9:57 am

Bobby Mcgees god I haven't heard that name in a long time.
If women took more initiative they wouldn't be complaining as
much as they do.
To much interaction on line creates an expectation that is rarely
ever met when meeting in person. Ideally two or at the most three
days of cyber chat before meeting.

Using more than all the road!


benard69 66M/66F  

1/8/2017 10:09 am

There's a whole generation of people coming up that will never be able to simply communicate face to face due to cyber technology ...They'll miss so much in life!


positively4you 74F  
4605 posts
1/8/2017 10:26 am

I do miss dating. Sex is great but to just go do something sometime can lead to that. Online has taken some of that away. A diet of just booty calls, hook ups, drive bys can get boring. Maybe too many cheap skates out there. Not all men are that way of course. The art of dating is becoming past tense.


redrockrascal 65M
23580 posts
1/8/2017 10:37 am

I had met several women while driving near the beach in SoCal. It did seem to be easier then.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.


boobwhisperer69 61M  
8322 posts
1/8/2017 11:10 am

I mean this nicely. but you are old school! And I like it soo much better that way! It seemed more real and personal! this cyber stuff has a lot of black holes!


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