My Dear Bitch. V#1 Bride. Margie Fillin
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Название: My Dear Bitch. V#1 Bride
Автор: Margie Fillin
Издательство: Издательские решения
Жанр: Современная русская литература
isbn: 9785449346339
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I didn’t want to impose my company on them and preferred to take breaking contact with them more or less easy. Yet naturally, when something like that happens in life, it’s hard to feel good about it.
Anyway, step by step my life took its normal course. I couldn’t say that I was in the festive mood, but soon enough I at least was in a good mood at least every other day. From time to time I amused my leisure by staying at home sitting in front of computer and looking for new friends in the web. One day I made a virtual acquaintance with an American man with a good sense of humor, friendly manners and with great ability to express himself in good English.
It happened quickly, unexpectedly, easily and funny.
On the third week of my virtual entertainment on the dating site I dared to write (simultaneously) twenty five short e-mails to the foreigners, who drew my attention for some reason or other.
As I was new at the site, I wanted to explore men’s reaction on my attempts to contact them.
In my e-mails, I tried to find out and emphasize marked individual characteristics of each person. I did it comparatively easily and I was indulgent towards everyone. Since that time the virtual game has indeed started assuming a different, more colorful shadow.
Why did I write to twenty five men but not to a hundred at once?
To tell the truth, I stopped at the 25TH just because I was bored looking for the men’s pictures and reading their profiles.
Later on, I had a good laugh at myself because I couldn’t figure out the author of the e-mail with one normal reply; but I’ve got a lot of different answers with numbers of men’s profiles: civil, equivocal, evasive, vague, glib, witty etc. When I tried to open and look at a man’s profile, I couldn’t.
So after several attempts, I had to ask for help and support from the administrator of the site. He was of considerable assistance to me.
At last, I could identify the person, whose reply seemed to be normal. As it turned out, that was the above-mentioned American man. He was on a business trip in Texas when he got my first e-mail and wrote me just a few words back.
“Thank you so much for writing me, Vika. Your words felt very nice and I appreciate your interest in contacting me. I am very happy to hear from you and very pleased that you are very pretty and seem to have a very warm lovely heart. I enjoyed reading your profile and we have many similar experiences. You are very nice and have lots of energy. I like that. Anything can happen in life as long as you dream. Hope all is well. I will write you again soon. Perhaps we can be familiar. Daniel”.
And so, in such way my and Daniel’s infinite e-mailing across the ocean has started. I looked intently at his nice picture once again and thought that he was not my type of a man, but looked and felt not a bad chap: Kind eyes, soft regular features, a good head of hair, and robust sporty man! I re-read his profile: “Looking for a friend or more. Divorced. No children”.
The name of the town where he lived in his profile could refer to several states in America, and it was a big surprise for me when I got to know that he was from California and lived not far from Hollywood.
Genuinely and twice surprising for him, though, was I had already been to California (three years before). He could not conceal his astonishment at hearing this from me, so he started to invite me over to his place at once, as if I were living a few steps away from his home.
– I can say for sure that you had driven by my house. I waved hello to you. You remember, don’t you? When you’re in town next time, do call by! Welcome to my home, Vika!
He tried to awake my curiosity joking.
It’s interesting that during my first trip to California I really visited his town and several times I parked the car at a short distance from his house, but I found it out three years later.
Well, I will certainly return to the story of this Californian in sixth generation, but later.
For now, my focus will be on the web.
6. Dating Can Seriously Damage Your Health
Dating sites – local, national, and international – are nowadays phenomena – phenomena of Web 1.0 that successfully survives in Web 2.0, too.
Please tell me the truth: Is there anyone who wasn’t nosy about them?
Every day one either sees a banner, or hears a commercial on the radio, or hears by word of mouth; in word, it’s not a secret that dating sites exist; what might be a secret, though, that nearly everyone tries them at least to satisfy the curiosity. Temptation is too strong.
Web 1.0 dating could confuse anyone anytime; it could be a real mess.
Every day since registration, a special digest, a catalogue of a sort, with the pictures and profiles of the new men and women, who registered on the site for the previous twenty-four hours, was sent. And it was to add to those thousands of men’s and women’s profiles that one could find on their own.
Naturally, anyone was available for contact, and so an impression – or, more precisely, illusion – of the endless, but at the end somehow successful, search for a life-time partner (or just a special one, or a friend, or a soul-mate, or a husband) could take over momentarily. Only fancy, you had hundreds of new candidates every day!
Of course, it excited everyone’s imagination, but that’s after all just imagination. The truth is, it was self-deception. One could see this quite well or, on the contrary, would never pay attention at this fact at all.
Perhaps, it shall be mentioned the above is specific to international dating sites; and although today it can be found at any online dating service, the speed, grandiosity and scale of international ones beat everything.
The other particularity of international dating is that they give a big chance for grown-up boys and girls from all over the world, speaking different languages literally and figuratively, to begin playing a virtual game with each other.
So, on the intersection of these two peculiarities we discover an interesting entity – a global community of a sort built on the principle of conveyor, a production line: try a person – move to a next step until the final product is complete; should one step fail, return to the very beginning of the process.
Speaking of final product, however, one shouldn’t forget that all the dating site’s users have absolutely different goals, what are known to no one but them.
At best then, the whole process of the game reminds a big lottery – if you’re lucky, then… well, kudos.
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