When I first got divorced it was kinda hard to get back into the swing of dating and such so I did all the internet stuff with the dating sites and all without much luck really. I still am pretty apprehensive at any dating site because the results I got were so poor. Seemed I put a lot of time and energy into something that rarely, if ever paid off. I also spent a lot of time in chatrooms because I was so bored and lonely and pretty bummed about my divorce that I spent a lot of time in a divorce chatroom bitching about my ex and talking to others about how they were dealing with it.
I got pretty addicted to chatrooms after that. While I was married I rarely got to use the internet because my exwife thought that I would find some girl and run off with her or something. So needless to say I NEVER was in a chatroom until my divorce or separation anyway. I found that there was a lot of freedom in being in a chatroom with a bunch of people that I didnt know or anything and I would find someone to talk to and some of them I would talk to on a regular basis like most everyday. Over a period of time I would get the nerve to get their phone number or something and talk to them. Eventually I figured out that it was actually pretty easy to get dates. I was pretty amazed that most the people in chatrooms were actually pretty lonely people and all there for the same things, companionship and/or sex.
But there were several people that I had grown to appreciate and some of them I still chat with today. I have met quite a few women from the internet and most all of them from chat rooms. I have had some really interesting experiences, I dated this one lady one time and she talked me into seeing her again because I had pretty much decided that she wasn't my type (actually I thought she was nuts). Turned out that she became psycho on me and it has been three years and she still calls me and messages me.
For the most part my experiences have been fairly positive, I have met some interesting and fun women and still talk to a good part of them (even the psycho). I have been taken the wrong way on here many many times and accused of being a psycho myself, but that was partly because my screename was psychodave. It is pretty funny how people can become so sensitive to things in chat, of all the places not to take things very seriously I am surprised at how many people do. It isnt a place for those with thin skin.
I'm not sure what my point is here, but I can say that my experience with meeting women on the internet has been for the most part a good thing. I learned to keep an openmind when meeting them for the first time, it is kinda like a blind date and people will misrepresent themselves or at the least will sometimes try to talk up their good qualities so that the ones that arent so good wont look so bad. One thing to remember is that there is a reason that they are looking on the internet and it isnt because they are lonely supermodels that are well adjusted. Not that everyone looking on here is a big ugly overweight unemployed loser, but all of us have our bad qualities that we dont put out on front street.
