online dating...seriously?!

I am going to start by saying I am not judging...maybe a little. Yesterday while at the brewery (yup mid-day at the brewery, didn't get to do that in NYC)...we were talking about starting speed dating on friday nights on the island (hilarious, tons of single men and about 4 single woman on the island)...whatever, so this lead to the conversation about online dating. Two of the four of us had been "online" before...it took 2 beers and a cocktail for us to admit it...but no one can judge either of us because we did it as an "experiment" (keep telling people that...bottom line we sucked at dating). Anyways...the topic was people lying on their profile (duh!), I mean are people that unaware of themselves...if you are 5'6" don't say 5'11"...if you are 30 don't put the picture from your 21st birthday up...if you are a total prick don't call yourself awesome...seriously?!

Now...a friend of mine has been doing online dating and is quite successful at it, he gets lots of dates (lots of other stuff too) and a couple of psychos along the way...the one is way off the charts on the crazy/hot scale (yup there is my How I Met Your Mother reference). In case you don't watch the show...here is Barney's explanation of the crazy/hot scale, which was used to analyze "blah blah" a girl Ted met online (people WATCH THE SHOW and life will just be better)..."A girl is allowed to be crazy as long as she is equally hot. Thus, if she's (see diagram in picture) crazy, she has to be (see diagram in picture) hot. You want the girl to be above this line. Also known as the 'Vickie Mendoza Diagonal'. This girl I dated. She played jump rope with that line. She'd shave her head, then lose 10 pounds. She'd stab me with a fork, then get a boob job."

Ok so back to my friend...recently received a picture from a girl via her cell phone camera and mirror, wearing nothing but a tshirt, why would you send that to someone you have never met, seriously?...ok so things to keep in mind, 1. he has never met her, 2. she told him she was into him before their first date and didn't want him seeing other people (wow a ring before you meet a girl, seriously?), 3. she sent him a picture of her boobs, 4. she called him tacky....ummm seriously?!

Then there was another favorite of mine...a 23-year old that after a couple of dates (night and morning) said she couldn't be with him because she wants to be with only one person and its not him...ouch, harsh...but wait isn't online dating about meeting several people, dating several people (maybe a little hoo-ha on the side)...when did someone decide that commitment had to happen instantly...slow it down crazy girl, you are more than jump roping the crazy/hot scale, you just trampolined over it...not pretty!

Ok...so the net, net...online dating, I don't believe the eharmony commercials (and its not only because I worked in advertising)...consider your experiences or your friends experiences and refer to the hot/crazy scale and think do I really want to do this...seriously!??