Really, it is? I thought it was just a convenient expedient to meeting people for people like me who have busy lives that keep them out of bars and clubs most of the time. And who moreover, as a rule, don't date people from work.
Oh, but I forgot you're SO much cooler than everybody else. Your s e x appeal is through the roof! You could pull the fittest birds/blokes any night of the week if you really wanted to, you just choose not not to do. That's right, you're CHOOSING to do online dating, but you could really just take it or leave it.
Or, no, it's probably just for a laugh, right?
Your room-mate put you up to it?
Sociological experiment?
Get the message? If your "most humbling moment" really is "creating this profile", then you're seriously in need of some humbling moments in your life. Plus, do you really think we're buying your diaphanous "I'm too good for online dating" posturing? (Hint: we aren't.)
Course of action:
(1) Change your "most humbling moment" box, if you offend against this post.
(2) Excise all variations of "I can't believe I'm doing this", "I hate writing online profiles", "I'm only doing this because ___", etc. from your profile.
(3) Start working on your self-esteem, viz. on coming to terms with who you are in the grand mating game. Online dating isn't just for losers, ugly people, perverts, and computer nerds anymore. Maybe it was in 1997, but the times have changed. By 2002, you might still have got away with lying to your friends about where you met so-and-so, but in 2007, the stigma is gone.
(4) Tell your friends. It's really okay. Sure, it's an unusual way to meet people, but then again, social dynamics have changed quite a bit since your parents met each other. Socially, we're much more cut off from each other, and much more overworked than ever in history. Especially in NYC.
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