Sunday, January 21, 2007
Metaphorical Life Dances
An epiphany hit me as I was browsing an online dating site. There are all these women's profiles and they show that they are online. You refresh the browser and some stay and some go. In a way, it's a metaphor of life - people coming and going in and out of one's perception. It's a funny sort of dance. Julie commented about leaving a mark, but isn't that what a blog is about - leaving one's mark? Look, I was here. IRC, chat, gtalk, etc. is like a life dance. People come, people go. The same effect is seen for dating sites, but then maybe, they are a bit of both dancing and leaving a mark. Online dating sites are certainly a snapshot in time, a period in one's life where you are looking for companionship. The usual thing when I think of snapshots is shipwrecks. Time capsules are a recent phenomenon I'm guessing, a bit more sophisticated than carving one's name in a rock or a piece of wood. A silent shout that I was here. I think I prefer the etherealness of dancing electrons and magnetic fields. They are more fleeting than life. A perfect metaphor in a fashion.
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People do come and go. And a lot of the time when you meet them (a friend was telling me about his experiences with online dating), they're nothing like the person they represented online ;-)
If anything, the online fraud is getting worse. Scammers from West Africa, whole sites that resort to fraud. Fertile ground for crooks looking for easy marks.
I have some bad experience too. I was contacted by a man who pretended to be a woman:(.Now I sum up some dating tips:
1. Don't let out your real personal info at the beginning.
2. Use another account to test if the personal is real
3. Webcam can prove if that personal is real.
... Check my blog for more . Thanks!
http://millionairematch.com/blogs/Be_Real
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1. Don't let out your real personal info at the beginning.
2. Use another account to test if the personal is real
3. Webcam can prove if that personal is real.
... Check my blog for more . Thanks!
http://millionairematch.com/blogs/Be_Real
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