Online Dating in Life After 60
- Oct. 8, 2019, 7:08 p.m.
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Let’s open up the phone lines and see what our listeners have to say on the subject of online dating…We’ll be right back after this break....and we’re clear…
Computers and the internet, along with social media are now a regular part of our lives. So much if we don’t reply to a post, message or phone call in a timely manner people think something is wrong. Well, there is. I don’t want to be joined at the “internet connection” with you 24/7!
But to the real issue, online dating. Yes, I have connected with POF, Eharmony, and OK Cupid and failed miserably with all three. And now Facebook enters the game with Facebook Dating. (It’s only available as a mobile app) With everything done online and by computers why not dating? Really? What does that say about those of us who are crazy enough to trust a computer and website to match us with someone? (Hey, I failed on my own why not let the computer see if it is any better.)
The part that really makes me shake my head and ask, “What were they thinking?” is those people who post pictures from 20 years ago as their profile picture. Yeah, we all wish we looked 30 years younger, but we don’t, so why post it? Do these folks not realize if they meet someone they are going to notice that you don’t look like that? My theory, if you will lie about how you look, what else will you lie about? And that folks is probably why I am still single.
Now to the phones we go. Hello caller, you are on the air.
woman in the moon ⋅ October 09, 2019
Thanks for taking my call.
I'm on POF but I can't remember my password and haven't been there in many years. The closest thing to a success I had was a semi-local man who I knew to some degree anyway. It turned out he had sent anonymous letters to the newspaper I wrote for criticizing my writing. That and he kept telling me the same stuff over and over. His son had an extravagant wife and a house under water - in Arizona. He had a nice dog. And he was the best I could do.
But.
Good luck to you. Sometimes it works.
Douglas Kinney woman in the moon ⋅ October 10, 2019
Thanks, it is just so different at 61!
crystal butterfly ⋅ October 09, 2019
Met my hubby on POF. You have to weed thru a whole lot of people. Some are really there to find someone. Some are there to find someone to have sex with. When I finally get a real name I would do an internet search. I had one guy tell me I'd never find out who he was but used his plane registration # for his ID. So I plugged it into the computer, told him what his name was and where he lived. We finally quite speaking because he could never convince me to take Rachael Maddow seriously.
Douglas Kinney crystal butterfly ⋅ October 10, 2019
I have a friend that met his wife on POF. It happens, just maybe not for me? But you are correct you have to weed through a lot of crazies and sex addicts!