Internet Coincidences!

[RoJoHen]

So, I am a member of OKCupid.com, a dating site. I don't really use it for anything, but I signed up a few years ago and still get emails with "new matches."

A couple months ago, one of my matches was a girl I went to high school with, who lives 3 hours away.

Tonight, one of my matches was a girl I met a few years back who went to college with another one of my friends. She lives over an hour away.

I have no intention of ever dating either of these girls, but I think it's hysterical that, of all the members of OKCupid.com, two of my matches are people I already know, and neither of them are local.

 

[Lumi]

Interesting.

When I had broken up with my first love, we stayed friends. Sometimes it was hard to be friends, there were always feelings... but we couldn't imagine stopping all contact, so we didn't.

A year after we broke up he was looking at VGChartz and my photo popped up on the side of the page, saying that I had 'liked' VGChartz on Facebook. I didn't know he went to the site at all, and he didn't know I was there. It was weird. He got a screen of it and showed me. We laughed about it a lot, and WTF'd a lot, and it sort of helped bring us closer together. We've been back together for a year and a half now. :3

 

[RoJoHen]

The girl who I got an email about today is now chatting with me on Facebook. We're discussing the annoyances of dating. Kinda fun!

 

[auntiehill]

So, I am a member of OKCupid.com, a dating site. I don't really use it for anything, but I signed up a few years ago and still get emails with "new matches."

A couple months ago, one of my matches was a girl I went to high school with, who lives 3 hours away.

Tonight, one of my matches was a girl I met a few years back who went to college with another one of my friends. She lives over an hour away.

I have no intention of ever dating either of these girls, but I think it's hysterical that, of all the members of OKCupid.com, two of my matches are people I already know, and neither of them are local.

Where I live it takes more than an hour to get from one side of the county to the other; the second girl would indeed be local.

 

[RoJoHen]

For dating purposes, if it takes me longer than 20 minutes to get to you, you live too far away.

 

[auntiehill]

When my husband and I were dating, we lived three hours apart. We saw each on weekends only, and emailed and phoned the rest of the time. We were engaged in about 6 months. Just saying......

 

[RoJoHen]

How did you meet?

 

[auntiehill]

Ha! Haven't you heard that story yet?

 

[RoJoHen]

Oh, probably, but I can't keep this shit straight.

 

[auntiehill]

We met at a scifi convention in Houston. It was mostly fanfic and I was into writing fanfic at the time. He was a volunteer--he frequently was asked to be the av guy at cons because he was such a techie and liked scifi.

However, neither one of us were aware that the con had recently turned into a fairly hardcore "slash" con and both of us were, well, horrified by some of the panels and discussion groups. I was asked by one of the women there if I would run some videos down to the av room. I did, and he was there, alone, as no one was there watching the shows. We sat and talked while the shows were playing and found that we liked a lot of the same things.

I left the con, thinking "I should've given that guy my number. Oh well, he probably wasn't that interested." When I got home, there was an email from one of the con organizers, saying "The computer guy really liked you. Can I give him your email?"

I answered "YES!" and the rest is history.

 

[RoJoHen]

Yep, that is a good story, but at least you met in person first! I am not going to make the effort to date someone that lives far away based on what a dating website says to do without meeting her in person first.

 

[auntiehill]

Well, that is true. But an hour's not that long, especially when you could plan a meeting place half-way. THEN, if you don't hit it off, you've lost nothing. But the three hour one would be a bit much.

 

[Amaris]

We met at a scifi convention in Houston. It was mostly fanfic and I was into writing fanfic at the time. He was a volunteer--he frequently was asked to be the av guy at cons because he was such a techie and liked scifi.

However, neither one of us were aware that the con had recently turned into a fairly hardcore "slash" con and both of us were, well, horrified by some of the panels and discussion groups. I was asked by one of the women there if I would run some videos down to the av room. I did, and he was there, alone, as no one was there watching the shows. We sat and talked while the shows were playing and found that we liked a lot of the same things.

I left the con, thinking "I should've given that guy my number. Oh well, he probably wasn't that interested." When I got home, there was an email from one of the con organizers, saying "The computer guy really liked you. Can I give him your email?"

I answered "YES!" and the rest is history.

D'awwwww!

 

[Alrik]

We met at a scifi convention in Houston. It was mostly fanfic and I was into writing fanfic at the time. He was a volunteer--he frequently was asked to be the av guy at cons because he was such a techie and liked scifi.

However, neither one of us were aware that the con had recently turned into a fairly hardcore "slash" con and both of us were, well, horrified by some of the panels and discussion groups. I was asked by one of the women there if I would run some videos down to the av room. I did, and he was there, alone, as no one was there watching the shows. We sat and talked while the shows were playing and found that we liked a lot of the same things.

I left the con, thinking "I should've given that guy my number. Oh well, he probably wasn't that interested." When I got home, there was an email from one of the con organizers, saying "The computer guy really liked you. Can I give him your email?"

I answered "YES!" and the rest is history.

D'awwwww!

Agreed! Great story. Way to go A.H.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

That's a cute story.

 

[wissaboo]

there was a couple on Oprah once in the early days of internet dating. She registered for a site and was matched with 5 guys all over the world. She emailed a couple and the only guy who answered lived in the same apartment building, on the same floor, with one apartment between them. They got married.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

For dating purposes, if it takes me longer than 20 minutes to get to you, you live too far away.

Pfft. Amateur. You'll never find someone that way.

My last boyfriend, as many here probably know (we dated for a year and a half), lives a two hour flight away. Not counting time to go through customs, wait for boarding, and then wait for luggage at the other end. And if we flew into/out of Buffalo and took the bus the rest of the way (it's much cheaper than flying into/out of Toronto), it was more like a six or seven hour trip.

(One could say that we met because of the Internet, too... his then-roommate used to be a member here, and was one of my "fairy godsons". He introduced us at Dragon*Con.)

At least we live in the same time zone. Our nightly Skype conversations could have been tricky otherwise.

 

[Kelso]

So, I am a member of OKCupid.com, a dating site. I don't really use it for anything, but I signed up a few years ago and still get emails with "new matches."

A quick plug- I met my fiance on that site!

And for coincidences, one of the other women I was talking to turned out to be one of her best friends and ended up taking our engagement photos!

 

[RoJoHen]

For dating purposes, if it takes me longer than 20 minutes to get to you, you live too far away.

Pfft. Amateur. You'll never find someone that way.

Well, to be fair, if I go any farther than 20 minutes away, I have at least 100 miles before I run into any kind of worthwhile civilization again. I'm not gonna find love in a random corn field.

My last boyfriend, as many here probably know (we dated for a year and a half), lives a two hour flight away. Not counting time to go through customs, wait for boarding, and then wait for luggage at the other end. And if we flew into/out of Buffalo and took the bus the rest of the way (it's much cheaper than flying into/out of Toronto), it was more like a six or seven hour trip.

It's one thing to meet someone in person who happens to live far away and then develop a relationship.

It's quite another to travel a long distance to meet a random person for the very first time in the hopes that you click.

 

[An Officer]

Try a thousand miles.

So you might pass up the love of your life because they live 40 mins away instead of 20? That's taking convenience to a whole other level! If it works, one of you can always move... best to keep your options open.