Hiya No1 Canadian!

On the 3rd day God made dry land.
What's the rush.

Franky!!

Well I'm here for 2 to 3 weeks now..
Guy No 1: block me
Guy No 2: We exchange email after chatting for a week.. Suddenly no respond but still checking my profile
Guy No 3: Might be meeting up with him in few months time.. So status unknown because he seems to disappear also

Isn't it interesting... So why will anyone get bored?

stefiepek, you might get better results if you would share your noodles.

Stop aiming my noodles!!
It's personnel

Did he say "I have abs"?

Depends on which country you're from.

Other than that I think in the U.S. there aren't very many actual new people as the profiles here are from the same people on many other sites.

I think at best people don't really leave, they just kinda do a rotation between all the free sites out there and stick around longer on those they, personally, find more "successful" for them.

The actual new new, haven't ever done online dating at all before, people actively participate for a week or two, or a month, and then just kinda stop checking their profiles.
Then they either leave realizing online dating isn't for them, or to start the rotation.

And I don't think it's "boredom" that forces them to leave.

I do believe unrealistic expectations regarding online dating force many to keep looking for a magic service, or haven for "good ones."

Ah! That's the OP's problem. He didn't say it.

No freaking way! Someone the other day said *I have abs! LOL*

*Twilight Zone music in background*

*gigglesnorting*

bbbbut miss storm i DO have abs

Hm...hot dog and fries...even better....

I think it's more that there aren't really that many new people joining up, is the problem. It's not that easy to say what a "genuine person" is anyway. Most people probably don't see it as some big serious "search" and it's just a bit of a laugh. Personally, I find that you do better at this if you don't take it that seriously but maybe that's just me and nobody's taking me seriously.

As far as this site goes, I can tell you plenty of things that women that I've chatted with or met said that they didn't like about this site. Most people that use the site don't use the forums and they're not interested in them. It's an international forum but mostly American and mostly the same people, as you say and as is always the case.

It's mostly the same people that show up in my area if I do a search as well. I mean that there aren't many new members and they try to make this about it being a small world and most people simply don't want to travel to other countries for dates and they certainly don't want spam, so they come on here, see if there's anything that they like and no matter how hard they try to sell it as a social networking site, it's a dating site and not Facebook and they've already got all of their friends connected on there.

There's a lot of competition from other dating services out there, including Facebook and phone aps. The point of internet dating is that it is fast and convenient. It's really not about getting to know somebody slowly through emails or forum posts. Most people don't want that and "Take your time and get to know folk on the forums" isn't really a great marketing slogan and there aren't millions of people using internet dating services because they want to spend a lot of time on it.

NorCal... new food on the menu.
Anyone place order?