Another gal's view of internet dating

In defense of the means of dating that I found to be the most
comfortable and best way to meet some good people, I will say that
yes it takes patience and time. I met the bad people, I saw the ads
posted to every dating site, I had the people who seemed to just want
sex contact me, but I eventually got to a point where I felt I didn't
need to appease everyone contacting me cause they weren't all looking
for what I was. Personal ads and internet dating seemed to be the
best method that worked for me when it came to dating. I had my
strings of bad dates through the sites, which is why I never signed
up for a year but would sign up for a lesser time frame to see how it
went. I have met some of my best friends and my current boyfriend
through those sites. I will not knock internet dating and I won't
lie by saying it doesn't upset me that some people are claiming it
doesn't work just because of a few bad expereinces. We live we
learn. We internet date we learn. We date at all and we learn. As
we all know who are in this group...we have sex and we learn. There
are crazies and assholes out there no matter what and they aren't
just found on the internet dating sites. Anyone I met outside the
internet sites wanted nothing more than sex and even a few of them
wanted to rape me. I realize I could have found the samething
through internet dating sites, but they also allowed me to email,
write, correspond, talk on the phone, etc before meeting anyone. So
I will not condemn something that has worked for me. I am sorry most
people have had bad experiences, but again we can have bad
experiences in other means of dating as well....meeting someone at a
bar/club/restraurant, having friends set us up, meeting someone at
work, meeting someone through family...etc. Dating in general takes
time, patience, perserveance, hope, and belief that life and love are
out there and we all deserve to be loved and cared for to the point
that our bones and heart hurt thinking of not having it...even if to
the point of spurning us on to find it and keep it.