I tried a number of dating sites, including match.com, manhunt and OKC. I've found OKC to be completely worthless. If I wanted to meet a married bisexual or a curious 20-year-old, maybe; but there's damn few gay grownups on it. Manhunt, as your friend observed, is about sex, and for that purpose it serves admirably. Match.com started out promising, but after a year or so it became clear that I'd already met everyone I was going to meet through that database, and I gave up.
All gay dating sites, as far as I can tell, suffer from the same problem: the number of gay men is relatively small, and only a fraction of them are willing to put themselves out there on a dating site. I assure myself that there must be some winners, since, after all, I'm one of them; but there are an awful lot of curious, married men, or twinks who consider anyplace outside the South End to be inaccessible, or men who are online all the time but never respond.
So yeah, online dating sucks. The only thing worse is not dating—or hanging around bars.
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Date: 2009-04-12 09:45 am (UTC)All gay dating sites, as far as I can tell, suffer from the same problem: the number of gay men is relatively small, and only a fraction of them are willing to put themselves out there on a dating site. I assure myself that there must be some winners, since, after all, I'm one of them; but there are an awful lot of curious, married men, or twinks who consider anyplace outside the South End to be inaccessible, or men who are online all the time but never respond.
So yeah, online dating sucks. The only thing worse is not dating—or hanging around bars.