Do you remember when Internet was still new and chat rooms were free and available to every one? It still exsist but let's be honest, the free ones are mainly used by children and / or pedophils.
When the match making sites came to be known, people were skeptic about the whole idea of meeting people online, and having a successful relationship created by that meeting. When it did work out for a lot of people all of a sudden these web sites all became a buseniss. Now we all have to pay for people searching on the web. Of course it is the same with chat rooms, information research on people and such. It is just too good to be free.
However, there are thousands of people who just don't mind to pay for these services. Some of them are even suscribed to several different match making pages at ones.
I'll never forget that on day I saw a woman writtin in the messege board that she's been up on these sites for years and that she found the same guy on different sites so she knew he was lieing about something. My first thought about that was simply a question. She is suscribed to several match making sites for years now, and still single? Maybe she should get up from behind the computer and invest all that time into REAL living experiences.
Of course, I should have kept my mouths shot ( or my fingers off of the keyboard) because she got offended by me. I didn't mean to hurt her feelings - I still do that thou. I just don't know when to keep my thoughts to myself.
For me, I like the idea of the possibility to meet Mr. Big online. But do I want to pay for the endless searching? Do I want to pay for the unsuccessful months and years too? No, thank you.
I know that there still are free match making sites. They mostly have such a havy number of users that the sites have all kinds of technical problems. Than you get a messege that if you are tired of these difficulties you can suscribe for the better version as gold or platine member the search for love will no longer be an ongoing headacke. Hmmm.
But what I hate the most is when you click on an add that says "free dating site", taht turns out to be about an hour of question answering, than a price list with your inforamtion already in the right boxes for your visa payment. It happened to me today.
So please fellow bloggers, if you know of a free match making site, that is really free and really works, let us all know. I am not being cheap, am I? That makes me think - are the people on these sites all cheap, or just carefull? Hmmmm...
