Craigslist Ads
Craigslist started as a company made by word of mouth. This is how I heard about the personal section, in a challenge of wits between friends, better known as truth or dare. I was dared to place a Craigslist personal advertisement. I thought that I would get no responses other then multiple date sites and porn spam bots, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that this was not the case. I received two that were spam or just a guy that likes to send the same response over and over again. I also had my male friend post one as well. He received eight answers which in my opinion were all pornographic. I received 106 answers. 106!! I don’t know about other people’s odds in a bar, but I usually do not leave with 106 numbers me in my pocket. I had no idea that it was even possible to speak to 106 interested men. Since there was no way I could possibly talk to 106 emails and be able to sleep this week, I decided to pick my top five responses that I thought were attractive potentials.
I learned valuable lesson from these encounters. Although I expected to meet serial killers and porn stars. It was surprisingly not the case. I met several men that were generally looking to connect with females in the area. Some of them just moved here. Most had just been in long relationships and merely felt they had been out of the dating arena for too long to know the game. It is disconcerting to place an advertisement for yourself on a public sight because it is the ultimate risk of dealing with those that purely want to use you for sex and discard you as if trash after fast food. I found that this was not the case. I had a lot laughs and candid conversations about love found or not found in the Sacramento area. We all need to take the risk of putting ourselves out there. Women are not excluded; we all have trouble expressing genuine interest in public. We are all picky and have little time to search through the negatives to find the positive. These days that could be a full time job and most people are busy working full time jobs to pay their rent. It is necessary to learn about taking time out of our day to find something new. My new advice for the girls that are tired of their current relationships is to see what is out there. We all think that it must be better somewhere else, but how many times to we explore with complete strangers. I have had six coffee dates in the last week and none of them were horrible. I connected with some and merely talked with others, but all were rewarding. Of course I caution any female to not share any personal information unless they are comfortable with the responding person, but I would suggest for any person to try this once to see the results. While this may be something that most people would consider a last resort or site purely for those interested in casual sex, I suggest that you take a second look and experience it for yourself; you never know what good things may come your way.