Wednesday, January 10, 2007

The Sexerati Guide to Unpersonals


filed under: Dating 2.0, Web Sex Index, Unpersonals by Lux Nightmare | 5 Comments

Once upon a time, meeting people on the Internet meant one of two things:

1) You joined a personals site
2) You somehow managed to start talking to someone through a message board/a chatroom/their email on a website, and then managed to convince them you were noncreepy enough to meet in person

Back then, meeting people on the Internet carried an air of desperation. It was something you didn’t really want to admit to, something you made a story to hide.

Then came Friendster.

Ostensibly a way to meet your friends’ friends, Friendster made the Internet “safe” for people too secure in their social skills to sign up for a personals site. On Friendster, you weren’t trolling for a date: you were demonstrating how popular you were! You were showing off your cute photos! You were making witty comments about your friends!

With the rise of Friendster came a whole new wave of “unpersonals” sites. You know them. You probably even have an account on one of them, complete with sassy photos, lots of comments, and a multipage friends list. And of course, you’d never, ever use that site to meet someone. Or stalk someone. Right?

Of course right.

And so, without further ado, here is your first installment in the Sexerati Guide to Unpersonals:

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