Okay, you made the first contact by phone, email, carrier pigeon or whatever manner you picked. Now it’s time to meet.For all of you neophytes, Starbucks seems to be the meeting place for the Internet date first encounter. There’s a Starbucks on every corner, it’s a public place, and it's safer than a Motel 6 or the parking lot of a convenience store in the woods for your first meeting. You can go to any public setting, but for some reason, Starbucks seems popular, trendy and cool, so you want to pick that kind of place.The difficult part for me is that I don’t drink coffee and each ...

You may try to set up an iDate online by using email, but it is probably smart to speak with your dates before you meet them.While I have a fantastic personality and can make anyone laugh (i.e. I posses that incredibly desirable quality of having a good sense of humor that most everyone puts as a requisite for a mate in their profile - others may not agree with this assessment about my humor, but at least Diamond Girl thinks I'm funny), I don’t really want to invest a whole bunch of time speaking with someone who I may never want to be with once I meet them. That’s merely my take on pho ...

The first week on TrueLove, I got a few “winks.” On Jdate they call them ‘flirts.” The names explain what they are. This is an easy way to see if someone is interested in you. Along with the wink or flirt comes a one-liner. They are things like, “Your profile looks interesting,” or, “your profile made me laugh.” These little catchy phrases are rather cute and at first I thought the other member made them up and I was immediately attracted to such a witty woman.After all, if they could identify the qualities of a perfect catch, it showed me that they were pretty sharp. ...

We live in a fast paced world were we want instant gratification and instant everything. While this post has nothing to do with karma, it sounds a lot cooler than calling it instant messaging (a.k.a IM), the actual topic at hand. One embarrassing moment occurred when I was on line and an instant message came through. First of all, I heard some kind of outer space noise, like an alien had zapped me with a ray gun. I was all alone and I had no clue as to what was happening. Finally, I realized the noise came from my computer, and it was some lady who wanted to IM me. And I can’t stand ...

Internet dating takes you on a nostalgic trip back to your youth when you stood in front of the counter at the corner candy store. There were so many things to choose from. You felt excited, happy, a little confused, but generally wonderful because you were about to pick out something that appealed to your sense of sight.While you may think it was about flavor and taste, all of this junk is made of sugar, and as a kid, your tastes weren't that sophisticated. Let's face it, you really were attracted to the colors and shapes that the manufactures used to draw you to their products. Suddenly, ...