- 1). Join a community chat board for your favorite hobby. Whether you are a sports enthusiast, love cars, gardening, bird watching or have a passion for movies and TV, there will certainly be people of both sexes who share the same interests. Join those boards and create a profile about yourself. You'll be able to check out the profile of others. Then when you contact someone, it'll be under the banner of a shared interest rather than dating.
- 2). Sign-up for a social networking site. This have become intensely popular as it allows you to sign-up and get into contact with friends and family around the country you may have lost touch with over the years. After all in today's society, everyone has an email address. Many people look to these social networking sites such as Friendster, Plaxo, MySpace and more as dating sites without the fee.
- 3). Start shopping online for your favorite hobby. While the Internet has shown explosive growth when it comes to big name chain stores, it has also allowed the "mom and pop" store to gain presence for their material on a global scale. Peruse these sites until you find a store you like. You never know when the person working in the store just might be a great catch. Not to mention, you'll already have your hobby in common.
- 4). Play games online. Don't "play games" as if to toy with the other person, but join a game site. AOL offers countless games, as do many other sites. Within these games you can create a whole virtual reality for yourself or play something as simple as Scrabble with others from around the world. As you play in a game, don't be afraid to strike up a conversation with others. In fact, a great place to meet guys is one of the umpteen poker sites online.
- 5). Search community sites. There are places where people will literally advertise themselves as an available mate online. Think of this as the same thing as the old classified ads found in newspapers. Craigslist is a perfect example of this type of site. Just be careful when finding a mate or dating from an online ad that you meet in a public place the first several times you are together.
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