Online dating.

I think I've mentioned this before. I "joined" an online dating thingy (the YAHOO one) a few months ago. When I say "joined", I mean I filled in my free profile and let it sit there, dropping by the odd time to see what's on offer (ahem).

I live in a fairly small city and I'm not really that mobile so I've never really thought that it made sense to actually pay up the cash because the (meagre) search results don't return a lot that takes my fancy. I did actually sign up once to, I think, udate.com when I was travelling around New Zealand a few years ago. It seemed the easiest way to make friends (and my co-workers weren't up to much) and I wasn't really looking for anything other than someone I could share a laugh with (and they could show me around their city/country). It was far too much like hard work, let me tell you. I felt I was jumping through so many hoops just to get one or two people to meet, and I think that's also kinda put me off using these things in future, whether it be for friends or something less platonic.

I do know of others who have had quite good luck with them, though they don't live anywhere near me and in larger cities, too. As I said, I'm reticent about shelling out the cash for it, but then again, why not? It's not as if my current social life is providing any extra friends, platonic or not.