Using Facebook for Relationship Purposes

I chose option 4. after a girl I was interested in became unavailable, someone else I became interested in, we hung out in public but we really started to get interested in each other on facebook as that's where we realized we had similar tastes, and we had the brunt of our pre-dating conversation there (or via text message) until we actually decided to date two weeks later. Facebook had a lot to do with it! which is the first time I can ever say social networking was that intertwined with my dating life.

I played facebook scrabble with mrs tomofthenest, does that count?

before she was mrs tomofthenest?

no

met my wife thru facebook

saw shawty, was like "wife me?"

I have never used Facebook.

To what extent have you used Facebook to start a relationship with a member of the opposite sex?

no gayz allowed r??

i have never used facebook in this way.

Me neither. I deleted my facebook account, don't really have time to even keep track of friends with facebook.

The "Using ILX for Relationship Purposes" poll would be interesting.

i reconnected with someone on facebook and we had a relationship afterwards. We had known each other for a decade beforehand, and we only talked on facebook once and exchanged phone numbers and never used it again so, i'd sort of say that i have never used facebook in this way.

oh and we had previously had a romantic relationship before reconnecting on facebook.

I met my husband through ICQ, i old.

Gay, therefore cannot answer question.

wedding on facebook?

I sound like a gammaw, but: is that even *llegal*?

Or as it's pronounce in Spanish, yaygal?

I BET I CAN FIND 1,000,000 PEOPLE WHO WILL FOLLOW MY WEDDING CEREMONY STATUS UPDATES

hey that's not how marriage has been defined since the dawn of man have some f'in respect for tradition and god bless america

Other: stalking crushes.

I mostly use Facebook to see if people from high school are still Mormon.

I met my husband through ICQ, i old.

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I met my husband on a message board but we courted via ICQ.

booty call option is hilarious, i would never have thought of that

Well feel free to pilot it for us -- just remember to make it a private invite, cuz if it's a public event, you may have some unintended guests.

My GF & I met through Myspace, which we both find to be very weird

my bro used myspace for that too - he even used to jibe that MySpace was nothing but a "cheap hookup" website. Only...he said that as an attribute.

I have never used Facebook.

other - not on facebook

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Chatted on facebook daily with someone I was interested in IRL until we both decided to date

This has happened twice for me.

Chatted on facebook daily with someone I was interested in IRL until I asked her out and she turned me down.

:(

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-11/facebooks-secret-porn-stash/full/

Blogger shocked that men get off on looking at innocent FB photos of women they work with/know IRL.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-11/facebooks-secret-porn-stash/full/

The men I talked to, though, said they felt increasingly dissatisfied with porn. One man, age 29, said, “Porn seems impersonal and gross,” while looking at pictures of women on Facebook feels “semi-enlightened, in a way.”

Facepalm.jpg

and hey - if you want the real thing just message one with some smart-ass bullshit! they may well be impressed enough to shag you!

Always a sound game plan, as we learned last week.

indeed! i shake my fist at everyone.

That article is a classic example of Why We Can't Have Nice Things on the internet for too long.

Blorget

Please stop writing articles. We are all dumber people for reading this.

amanda marcotte is retarded

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i met a woman on facebook, then we hooked up for a few months, now i regret it. (simplified.)

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Girl I know but haven't seen in a while keeps "poking" me. First two times I hesitantly poked back (IDK I thought maybe it was just some lol-it-is-2005 joke), but she did it again and I'm wondering if I should be like "Ok, what's with the poking?" or just ignore it. FWIW, she dates my friend, and I am a married man with a child, so I REALLY don't want to create the impression that I'm flirting with her.

tell your wife to poke that woman's bf

the poke feature still exists?

that was my first reaction too but yah it's right there in the pulldown menu on the top right of yr profile

don't poke someone unless you want to pork them

Ignore it. Some people really are stuck in an old-school facebook mode, so it could well be nothing. Plus, she can't send you any more pokes if you don't poke back, right? So best thing is just chalk it up to her being crap at the internet and let it go.

otm

also, stop having sex with her

that's your answer to everything

Come on baby, don't poke the reaper

I have a couple facebook friends using poke to remind me to vote, I guess that's as valid as anything

didn't vote in this, but definitely used facebook/facebook chat in the pursuit of dating in the past

A playwright I know wanted to send his work to an agent. He saw I was friends with the agent and couldn't get the nerve up to write her, and so was considering poking her. Just to give Hurting some insight into the mind of a poker.

Chatted on facebook daily with someone I was interested in IRL until I asked her out and she turned me down.

I have a hard time understanding how anyone could turn down Rev for a date. WTH, stupid person?

don't poke someone unless you want to pork them

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Bob Marley

maybe it's a cry for help - 'halp I'm stuck in 2005 please come and save me'

what kind of awful person outs yrou worktime facebook use at yoru staff meeting ? horrible people!

feel my sorrow people

:(

at least they will never find ILE

Does anyone else have friends that have become facebook-only friends? I seem to have a handful of people who I no longer otherwise keep in touch with, and who I was maybe not the best of friends with to begin with, but because they post a lot of relatively interesting stuff on facebook, and because I'm a compulsive adhd loser who needs a lot of stuff to do on the internet I wind up commenting on their threads a lot. I keep thinking maybe this seems pathetic or creepy.

i think that's totally normal. i have fb friends i chat w/ frequently on im that i only really know otherwise from ilx.

It's not so different from old school 'people you only write letters to'. It also, for me, solves the problem of people you like discussing links with, or having chats with, but wouldn't for whatever reason want to have too much to do with in real life

People you share deep professional interests with but find insufferable, etc

Some of these people just live in other cities, and I'd probably hang out with them if they were around. But at the same time, they were just people in my circle of friends and not that I was particularly close to.

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just needed to register somewhere that my middling-to-awful facebook experience has improved somewhat after joining the group 'the kitsch meow' which constantly features tacky images of yesteryear.

I have seen people like Nirz Buhari using such platform for Pedophile purpose.