I have about 10-15 friends I met on CL. Probably two thirds of the people I hang out with on a regular basis were met through such postings.

w4ww means you're a woman looking for multiple women.

only white women need apply? or only wholesome women? or weird women?

multiple women? I'll need to remember that for my craigslist ad.

Like in Sex and the City?

If Cynthia Nixon applies, you need to document the ensuing drinks/brunch etc. on Flickr.

I have one really good friend (male) that I met online and two guy friends I don't really hang out with anymore (but did for a year or two). It wasn't from craigslist, though; I can't remember what the site was...

Anyway, he and I are platonic, as were my relationships with the other two.

All three are straight, incidentally.


On preview: I'm wholesome, weird, and white. Woo hoo!

But check out this somewhat sad one of culture-clash and a good deed gone wrong.

Can I apply wearing a pink ribbon in my head and fake eyelashes?

My Craigslist dating experiences were so awkward I haven't even considered trying to make platonic friends off it.

Heh. I found an evil ex's anon craigslist post (I knew from what she wrote it had to be her), so I emailed back from a dummy account emphasizing all the things I knew she'd be looking for in a date, and saying I really liked women fitting the characteristics I knew her to be most proud of possessing.

When she enthusiastically responded, I didn't email her back. A month later, she emailed again, told "me" how great a fit we'd be and plaintively asked why hadn't I responded to her reply.

(This was a couple years after I'd also found a newspaper personal from her.)

The fact that I have no cragslist/internet dating experience makes me feel really, really old.

Hubby and I met another couple who were looking for friends. It was AWFUL. The girl was so boring, even when I asked her about stuff that she should have been interested in. The guy said nothing the entire time. They never emailed us again, we never emailed them.

That being said, I would love to find friends like you are looking for, muddgirl. Post if your ad works out, ok? (Hmm, thought you were mudpuppie for a sec...)

jrossi, how about feeling really, really lucky?

The fact that I have no cragslist/internet dating experience makes me feel really, really old.

You shouldn't. I think that there are all of 10 people on the planet who have had good experiences with it.

That I do, Specklet. That I do.

ortho, that's one of the saddest things I have ever seen.

I'm going to facebook stalk anyone who replies.

Twiggy - almost everyone does :)

It's hard to meet women my age in my profession. I just need some friends who don't tell bad doctor jokes every time I mention my gynecologist.

But check out this somewhat sad one of culture-clash and a good deed gone wrong.

That story is very sad. There is a lot of animosity among Asians. There has been so much antagonism between all the groups, and between all of them and Western countries, that everyone has an axe to grind. This person is caught in the middle of a dozen fights she doesn't understand or deserve to be hurt by. Ortho, I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir!

The summer I lived in DC I got a lot of glares at the mall from the local Asian girls. Meanwhile I couldn't walk near the capital without being propositioned at least once per block, and I don't mean by preppy Senate interns. I've never seen anything like it. It's a crazy world.

wow, swede-american-then-korean, what a mix to be. hope it works out fo her.

I must be unusual in that the vast majority of my craigslist experiences have been positive. Now, mind you I've only sold things and used it for finding roommates; I've never actually looked for dates or posted personals on there.

That said I've made a couple of AWESOME platonic friends through posting random rants on the boards over the past couple years. The sorts of quirky humourous types you'd expect to respond to one of my savagely incomprehensible overblown missives.

By far my biggest CL rave of all tho has been finding my incredibly fabulous roommate. I'm sure everyone on this board is sick of hearing me go on about him, so I'll stop. I'll just say this: I'm an old hand at internet contacts / freeboards / forums and BBS services, so I'll qualify by saying I tend approach CL with my freak armour and flame-retardant suit on, my bullshit radar on high gain, apply very low expectations and do a LOT of filtering.

So... I guess what I'm saying is, YMMV. I've found that what I get out of Craigslist is exactly what I put into it.

The summer I lived in DC I got a lot of glares at the mall from the local Asian girls. Meanwhile I couldn't walk near the capital without being propositioned at least once per block, and I don't mean by preppy Senate interns.

This doesn't match my DC experience. What local Asians were glaring, and why? I've known several Asians in DC (ABC, Korean, Indonesian, PRC and Taiwanese, and even some Japanese though their English wasn't up to conversing), and none have reported this.

And who was propositioning you near the CapitOl? Lobbyists? (Surely not .gov people; .gov workers don't do that, not that way.) Hill rats? I could see Hill rats doing it, but not on the street, they're annoying but more circumspect than that.

Sure it wasn't World Bank/IMF/Embassy dudes? Now, those guys would, but that's 18th St., not the Capitol.