So I know I am not the only person in the world to see all of the advertisements for online dating sites. These sites claim to have everything from tips to meeting the person of your dreams to even being sites exclusively for talking to people with the intention of meeting our soul mate. I decided to do some internet searching on online dating, so I went to Google and typed in the search box “how to meet the person of my dreams”, my results were pretty interesting. I got anything from sites with books that insist that I need that specific book to find the person of my dreams, tips on how to act, and even sites offering to help. According to one site, The Top 10 Ways to Meet the Woman/Man of your Dreams, the top ten ways to meet the person of my dreams are "joining a community group, smiling, updating your wardrobe, getting out of everyday routines, challenging yourself to meet new people, approaching people, going to the gym, online dating, being unique and putting ideas into action." According to the site, these are the exact things someone needs to do to meet the person of their dreams.
On the other hand, Ehow.com also claims to have everything someone would need to meet their special someone. How to Meet the Man of your Dreams consists of thinking about what you want in a life partner, making a list of qualities that are important to you, joining an online dating site, creating a profile that would make you proud, and meeting matches in public places. These are mostly centered around the idea of online dating. How to Meet the Woman of your Dreams is just a little bit longer. The steps include getting to know yourself first before meeting her or talking to her, taking a journal to write down notes about what comes to mind for your future, talking to someone trusted about the special lady, meditate on what you learned and decide what qualities are most important to you, find the hobbies that she does, look at all the notes you’ve taken and figure out exactly what this perfect lady is like, make two lists – one with the most important qualities and one of the places she would go, and make it a point to visit those places at least once a week. Now, the list for men to find their women was definitely different than the women’s list to find their men. It just goes to show how every site really thinks they know what’s best.
So this may make some of you laugh, but I decided to try the online dating (yes, I am extremely happy with my boyfriend, I just said on it that I was looking for friends,) so I went to Match.com to try this out. I made a profile two days ago and didn’t touch it until tonight. When I went on the site it informed me that I had 43 people view my profile, 27 people were interested and 1 even “winked” at me. So it gave me the option to see who was interested so I clicked on it. The only way to see these people one might ask? Yep, I was going to have to subscribe to their site. And subscribing, a minimum of 6 months for $17.99. So all of these places tell us to try online dating and what do they do, charge to use their site. I just don’t feel it’s right to put a price on love.
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