Comments on: The Truth About Internet Dating

By: tomtheman5

tomtheman5 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:20:06 +0000

This is definitely what it felt like during 'the hunt'... but then you find a relationship that actually works, and it changes entirely!

Met my man 5 years ago online )

By: MoonCake

MoonCake — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:26:49 +0000

my best friend met her husband online. they've been together for about 4-5 years and they're expecting their second kid thi month.

my dad apparently dates online all the time! the first time he told me that i laughed soo hard.. and he's had lots of success too! go dad go!

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:41:37 +0000

I met a girl online in 2001. Our three-year wedding anniversary is Wednesday.

It's a lovely comic, but not as true as it once might have been.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:59:27 +0000

Bah! This comic is silly! I've known several couples who've met online. My previous relationship of two years was with someone I met online. My current relationship is with someone I met online. A friend moved from New York to Ohio to be with someone she met online, and they've been together for five years now. My roomate met his totally awesome girlfriend online over a year ago.

This comic is silly.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:41:45 +0000

Oh, I don't know... They had a couple meet on the Battlestar Galactica forums and end up getting married. One of the behind-the-scenes videos on the dvds talked about how BSG brought them together online.

Yes, yes, I am a geek, and I do watch BSG, even the dvd extras.... so, anyone want a date?

By: LL

LL — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:10:52 +0000

Wha........ huh?

I don't understand.

It's all for sex, so what's the big deal? I do it all the time.

By: Lo

Lo — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:20:51 +0000

God, that's true. If you have means that you can get together often or relocate? Awesome. But having been through a very long term relationship where neither of us could, it just hurt so much.

By: stormie24

stormie24 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:46:04 +0000

haahha! I loved the kissing pic...but sad. very sad.

By: ted

ted — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:29:10 +0000

Kinda dopey, really.

I would thought he'd be dreaming about Internet porn.

By: Miss Curly

Miss Curly — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:28:00 +0000

I watched my best friend go through several "dates" online. One time she was so heart broken over someone she had never met in person! I questioned her sanity. I mean, come on, it's just a box, right? Then she met someone who was actually decent and married him after five years of being together.

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:18:37 +0000

It may not have anything at all to do with xkcd. It's certainly not BY Randall Munroe, that's for sure, as someone else said. I saw a great set of "comic" drawn "life experience" images that came from 4chan of all places.

By: NoneNoneNone

NoneNoneNone — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:54:49 +0000

just fyi, it is definitely not xkcd, but surely it was drawn by a fan of xkcd.

By: DOJ

DOJ — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:02:47 +0000

love the eyes in the last frame, they convey so much

By: kdub

kdub — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:11:35 +0000

Yeah, that doesn't look at all like the xkcd style. That last drawing was heartbreaking. Damn /b/tards.

By: Chojiro

Chojiro — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:33:01 +0000

pinguino, please don't pull credits out of your ass. I've seen this comic before though. Whenever somone starts an "Intentionally depressing" thread on 4chan, it's been a prerequisite to post that image ever since it showed up about six months ago. No idea where it came from though, considering the entire board is anonymous.

By: jimmyhoffascorpse

jimmyhoffascorpse — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:51:44 +0000

this is all too painfully familiar....

By: Sheldon

Sheldon — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:46:37 +0000

That is so funny, but I agree, it could just be the normal truth about dating.

By: bean

bean — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:29:40 +0000

Isabelle -

Your written English is very natural after only seven years. I'm impressed.

By: Isabelle

Isabelle — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:27:03 +0000

I met my husband online in 2001. At this time everybody thought I was crazy. We didn't look for someone, he wanted to learn French (I'm French) and I needed to learn English (he is American). After lot of exchanges we were in love and decided to meet (9 month later). We got married 4 years later. We are now married for 3 years. I think time is the key word and I think the right person can be found anywhere, just don't try to look too hard. It'll come when it'll come, whatever the way is.

By: kid_icarus

kid_icarus — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:32:06 +0000

that made me sad....

By: stacyj

stacyj — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:31:47 +0000

Aww, that got to me, too. Sad and sweet. It would be nice if more of the people who felt like that could get together themselves ...

By: ABOMIBOT

ABOMIBOT — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:58:32 +0000

My partner and I just celebrated our 10th anniversary in May 2008 and we as much or more in love than we were at the turn of the century.

We met online.

Don't give up; don't stop looking; don't settle!

By: pinguino

pinguino — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:52:26 +0000

xkcd.com is the comic that is from
very cute sweet comics about geeks, tech, and love

By: POK

POK — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:34:29 +0000

I dont get it.

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:00:34 +0000

@ bean

I couldn't help but agree!

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:52:35 +0000

Yes, I guess this could have been called "The Truth About Dating."

By: shadowfirebird

shadowfirebird — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:22:35 +0000

I don't see why internet dating would be any worse than dating via snailmail, for example -- which people did before the internet arrived.

Not that either is necessarily a good idea, you understand; it's just that, whether it's a good idea or not, it's not a new one.

By: bean

bean — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:10:53 +0000

It would have been just as accurate for him to show up at her door and discover she's a dude, morbidly obese, thirty years older than him, or completely psychotic. Or all of the above.