Continuing…
Last Sunday evening after my hubby went to bed, I googled “how to get more girlfriends”. Well, big mistake, because the top searches were all about how to pick up women, for men. They even got quite a few sites on how to steal other men’s girlfriends. Ack! After typing in numerous different keywords, I stumbled upon http://www.girlfriendsocial.com/. It’s exactly what I was hoping for – a social networking site for women to meet new girlfriends!
Now I feel like I’m in familiar territory. I can employ the same analytical skills and experience I’ve had with regular dating sites. Yay!
Just like a regular dating sites, Girlfriend Social requires me to set up a profile, post a picture, and name my interests (like favourite sports and movies, etc). It has instant chat, email service, discussion groups, etc. Instead of “roses” and “smiles,” members break the ice by sending each other “coffee” – how fitting!
I love the fact that I can search for friends using keywords from their profiles. But the problem is, when I typed in “Star Trek The Apartment Cole Porter,” the only chick I came up with was… me. So okay maybe I was a bit too specific. It was worth a shot, right? I settled with “sci-fi old movies broadway musical” and came up with a lot more results.
It’s been a few days since I joined the site. I think there’re a lot of great women on there. I received and sent a bunch of coffees, added a few friends and exchanges emails. A few things that I’ve learned:
- Initially I thought that distance would matter less when one’s dating for girlfriends rather than men. After all, it’s not like I have to satisfy my urge to make out with them or anything like that. But guess what, distance does matter because the women there all express the need to find someone to go to movies with, to go to the local festivals with, or to have over for dinner, etc. I guess there are things that strictly online friends can’t replace.
(continued in my next post...)
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One thing I think it would be good to mention is that you should keep your guard up on this site as you would any other online social site. The people on these sites are not guaranteed to be who or what they claim, and such a site might even be more attractive to scam artists and predators because women would be more likely to assume it's safe.
I agree. Safe=Not-So-Safe, it’s ironic, isn’t it? There are repeated warnings on the site that it’s for women only, so it means there are probably some creeps out there who are only pretending to be so. Stay tune, in my next post I’m going to talk about my experience on the site so far!
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