Online Dating and Possible Marriage.

The Internet is awash with information both useful and banal.  In a very real sense, the entire Internet is becoming (or rather is) one extremely large globally distributed and mostly public electronic library, post office and discussion forum (nairaland! ), alongside online dating.

Websites and chat rooms often post pics of smiling happy couples that met through them and are now "living hapily together"

Folks, what do you think about these?  When you get to a chat room, what is your intention/motive?  Can you meet a guy/girl online, date and later get married?

Let's share.  My brother's friend recently (last year) met a Canadian girl online and they are married now.  Do you think it is weird or cool?

hey dominobaby. u are a girl right? well, i'm a guy. guess what we just met online. and if u are single, then maybe we can work things out

Actually, internet relationships as far as i know, its just like 2 out of every 100 relationships that really works! When i was first initiated to the internet, it was exciting and i wanted to chat and make friends, but with time you will realise that people hide under the internet  and make themselves to be what they are not, its just once in a while that you meet the few honest ones, the same thing applies to the online dating stuff, people are just out to satisfy their selfish needs. So if you are going for it, (Shine your eyes , )and be ready for the lies, its the human nature!

Really it's one of those things I love doing most. Meeting people online and chatting away. I have made a lot of friends both within and outside the country. We even talk on phone at times. It is possible to date someone online and then follow it up with phone calls and visitations. That is if you are in the same locality and if you are not, I guess you leave everything to fate.

But ask me if I can meet a guy online, date him and then get married to him and I will say YES.

Online dating for me is just for the fun of it. 100% of the information I give about myself are all lies , don't even give out my real names, tell you it is that bad. I don't expect the other party to be honest with me either, common we are total strangers. I am sure there are millions of "me" out there,So if you are online dating, have it at the back of your head that the person might not be completely honest with you; else you get carried away and start thinking marriage.

78 % of women that chat online are fat and  unattractive and geeky with no life at all! the other % do it as a hobby.

Dominobaby,

I think one thing that might help on Internet dating sites would be if there was an associated messageboard where would-be daters could interact with each other. Then it would be easier to check out who was real and who was fake by observing how each person interacted with other people and checking their stories for internal consistency (does what they say check out with what they said earlier?) and plausibility (is it likely that what they said could be true, based on what I know about them?).

Or then again, maybe not.

Girl, that matter is a 50-50 thing men.  It hardly works down here in Nigeria.   All the people involved want one white man or white woman whereas it's all a scam!

All this talk about online dating are 'film tricks' (fairy tales).  It works for some and doesn't work for others because Nigerians are greedy people, especiallly the girls. (forgive me)

I rest my case.

I beg your pardon drwhopl! What is that supposed to mean? You are not forgiven until you
Haba!  The fact that it is all fairy tales to you does not mean you should make such conclusion.

Maybe you should refer to CNN transcripts of an interview of the Match.com entrepreneur.  He found out that out of 2000 couples that met online, around 50 made it to the altar.  Now mathematics tells us that something with a probability of 2.5 out of 100 is not likely to happen.

Add that to the Nigerian phenomenon of boys masquerading as girls online for the sake of these pieces of paper we call money.

Maybe that's why drwhopl claims Nigerian girls are greedy.  He has fallen victim to "boys in girls clothing!"

I concur with you, Angelgirl.  It's all like that, they use fake identities.

However, it's cool to get an Internet relationship to marriage.  I hear about it but I don't believe in it anyway.

i feel what u are saying trae z,but u may integrate the online thing with your gaming ang well it becomes tighter ...u catch the drift

ii believe on the net one meet a lot of nerdsdumbies,crazies,weirdos, goody goodies,the nice guys(like me ) and u may still get to work things out...

and kodewriter me and u know that 2.5 out of 100 is pretty high, how many guys do u know who married even their 5th girlfriend (or even girls)? Multiply that by the number of people out there and the stas gets overwhelming...

i approach this issue tongue in cheek...online datin and possible marriage? -another probable, not always possible- just like evryother realtionship

Hi all, it's so surprising to find more teens and some adult trying to find a 'perfect match' through the internet. Isn't it booboo?

Hey guys, I believe that love and companionship can be found in strange places. True, must of those who are on this sites are either insincere, fraudulent or not conventionally good looking, but we must remember that matters of the heart are all about chance (sometimes a very small chance) and it is for that small chance of success in any relationship that we persevere through the hard times sometimes going through the unthinkable!

Rather than condemn them and believe all their stories and intentions to be false I think we should look at ways of improving their effectiveness in achieving a very important objective, helping people meet people which is the first part of anything which may eventually become special.

How parochial. You must have some fact to back this up...... what? ........You don't?.......... sigh

Try www.Metrodate.com/ng if you are interested in meeting nigerian singles (girls that is). I was told by a reliable source who claims to have joined that its pretty reliable and you get to send messages. haven't tested it though.