Funny, sad, but not always the truth.

Met wife online. Via theonion.com, even.

I, too, met (and married) the woman of my dreams via an online personal ad. Before that, I had a pretty good track record, as well. Sure, not all of the matches worked, or even actually happened IRL (man, I have some stories!), but, overall, things worked out pretty well.

Five year anniversary to my wife coming up and we met via internet personals. I'm not sure how else you can meet people, it's not like I know very many single people.

For me if you were to change the first panel to a phone or in-person conversation it would be just about the same process as the one depicted in the link. So it's not really saying anything special about online dating and given the wealth of counter examples not even true.

Is there anyone, since 1995, that has met their partner/spouse OTHER than online?

I mean, my marriage predates the Internet, but if I were looking around today, I would not have a clue about doing it other than online. . .

Oh it's so true :-(

Only met disaster through online dating websites.

(me, danf? of course I met him at work, which is the other main venue...)

Me, danf, but of course we met in college, which is the third main venue... :)

College and work aren't very productive to dating if you're a straight guy and are a comp-sci/engineering major. Both undergrad, grad school and both of my workplaces have been overwhelmingly male, I think that my current office is about 10% Women.

Women don't like me on the Internet, I have much better luck in person.

Also me, danf, but we met in the mens bathroom at a baseball game, which is the fourth main venue . . . :\

I met mine at work.

I met my ex-husband just before your cutoff year at an adult-ed french class.

I wonder if the title "The truth about internet dating" was added later... doesn't seem to have much to do with the cartoon.

Not sure where it came from. Looks a bit XKCDish but I don't remember it and can't find it on a search. The comments seem to think it comes from 4chan.

College and work aren't very productive to dating if you're a straight guy and are a comp-sci/engineering major.

Very few of my friends and girlfriends from college or grad school did I meet through my subject.

Also me, danf! We were introduced in a bar by a friend of my sister (the fifth main venue...).

My dad met his wife on the internet, and seems happy. Any blokes looking for women at work should work in disability services - guaranteed at least 95% women.

College and work aren't very productive to dating if you're a straight guy and are a comp-sci/engineering major. Both undergrad, grad school and both of my workplaces have been overwhelmingly male, I think that my current office is about 10% Women.

Ah, but if you're a straight woman, the odd's are pretty good.

wow, where did that apostrophe come from?

But the goods are odd?

But the goods are odd?

Met Mr. V through the newspaper personals in 1999. Neither one of us owned a computer at that point.

(Met my first husband at at tattoo parlor. Not recommended)

I met Mrs. Plinth at a party. Smitten, smitten, I tell you.

Ah, but if you're a straight woman, the odd's are pretty good.

Yea but most of the straight women that I've worked with have been in arranged marriages.

I met my girl at college. I was the prof.

Met my husband when I was drunk in a punk bar in the backstreets of Shinjuku.

Met her at work, but we didn't get together until after she quit. Kids, take a tip from your ol' uncle b - never, ever fish off the company pier. It's just a bad idea.

I'm going to start a novel with gomi's met-story - the exact words.

I just got engaged to a wonderful woman I met on Match.com.

That site was not my favorite at the time but it did the job in spades at the end of the day.

The great thing about online dating is that, to some extent, the people who do it have to make a deliberate choice that they want to seek someone out and make something happen. That's square one. One of the reasons my relationship is working is that we're both clear on the fact that we want one and are willing to work to make it happen and succeed.

When you meet that charming friend-of-a-friend at so-and-so's party and pursue her like you're supposed to in everyone's offline-dating fantasy, you find out half the time s/he's completely not interested in anything / was drunk that night / etc.

I dunno.... I'm essentialising too much. Online dating comes with no guarantees. But it did allow me to cast my net a bit wider and it never interfered with meeting people the old fashioned way.

How does the fantasy in the comic NOT relate to offline dating, too? That dreamy fantasy is what keeps most people going, online or off.

My _parents_ met online!!!


heh heh, I'm not really that young. he's my stepdad, really. But they're such a funny, perfect old pair I can't help but feel proud.