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I met my girlfriend, of almost 2 years now, online.
No, not through a dating agency or chatting, but through a bulletin board similar to this, but for snowboarding.
Now it may sound odd, but it's ecoming much more common place. Think of it as the village dance of the 21st century. Whereas in the old days you'd travel into the dance to hope you'd meet your future spouse, these days we go online to do the same.
Now I do realise the difference in my case. The site we were at was one where we both had a similar interest, making leisure time activities easy to match up and our resultant lifestyles were very similar.
We'd also met up about 2 years before we even started dating, during one of the forum meets in London. In fact I've not just gained a girlfriend, but about 30 new friends who all enjoy snowboarding.
About 16 of us are headed out to Tignes for a week in January.
Compare that to a lot of people who meet their partners at work, and you'll find that the only thing they really have in common is work. What do they have in common after 5pm?
It doesn't sound so creepy meeting someone from the internet now does it?
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