I'm 27 and I only know a handful of people within my social group who haven't ever used a dating site and among them the general consensus is attractive people don't need to and it's for people who can't meet anyone in 'real' life.
At lot of my friends lie about how they have met their partner when they met online. One of my friends lied for a year before 'coming clean' that she met her now husband on POF.
Another 'admits' it to me but tells everyone else they met at work.
If the stigma is gone then so many people wouldn't feel the need to hide it. And these are otherwise very confident people.
I have one friend who will never admit she met her partner on match.com. She has this great story about how they met at work but in reality he let it slip once how they met on match.com and said she told him he can never tell anyone!
My best friend is Gay and said in the gay community pretty much everyone uses online dating as there's little way to meet someone day to day so there is literally no stigma at all.
What do you lot think. Is there still a stigma to using dating sites?
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definetlynotbored · 01/10/2016 07:52
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