Dating sites are a joke imho. Better to just meet some one by happenstance. If you expect to meet the love of your life there, you're probably wrong. Yes, I'm sure it has happened in the past, but the commercials are the exception rather than the rule. For me, I meet women when I am not expecting anything, and is completely random.

I bailed on the last dating site I was on. I'm here exclusively and I've met some awesome people. Maybe yours and my Prince Charmings are here. This is not a bad place to find out. ☺

you, @Nottheonlyone strike me as way to real, interesting, thoughtful, smart and just plain groovy for regular dating sites. they're awfully watered down and you ain't.

I got married young and was married for 23 years, dated a little bit, and then went into another serious relationship.

I took about six months to myself to figure out what I wanted to do, and I'm just now on dating sites, and it is a sh*tshow.

I choose to look at it like I'm Jane Goodall observing mostly hairless apes grope around in the dark trying to find each other

Life is what you make of it, no better or no worse. These people who you think are posting the very same things on dating sites are simple trying to relate. They are relating in that we are all basically the same from the same mold, the human mold like it or not!

1. Do not believe anything.
2. See #1

You are correct, online dating is a bottomless abyss.
The womens profiles aren't any better. I have lost track of how many bathroom selfies, feet on a lounge chair at the beach, and party girl straw cowboy hat photos I have seen.

I am much too old to know anything about dating sites, and am barely able to function on the internet, so thank goodness I don’t need to navigate them! My advice would be to go and join some groups locally, doing some activity or hobby. An Art class or if you sing a choir, or whatever your particular tastes draw you towards. Make sure they include both male and female members of course!

I've never used a dating site other than this one (which very much isn't a dating site at all!) and I definitely feel it's not for me. Maybe I'm not alone among people who were born before the internet, but it just feels like a very unnatural way to try to find love.

Dating hard.

The thing I can't figure out about women (no offense intended to anyone) is why people hit the button that says they "like" me or are "interested" in me, but then don't follow that up when I respond with a message or interest of my own. Are all those accidental? Some even have messages of their own. They couldn't all be fishing me, could they? I'm pretty good at spotting the signs...

Any guesses? Do men do the same thing to you?

Just try to have fun with it. Folloew your instincts and enjoy the journey.

You forgot "I shot something!" ?