On being Alone - just my kind of awesome thing

Websites, posting boards, and craigslist Oh My!

In doing research I've been finding the "explosion" of dating websites and forums on the web.  Quite frankly, very frightening.    The anonymous nature of the web really allows people to be quite nasty to each other.    When I did this project 2005-2006 I posted an ad on craigslist and got a number of people to respond from craigslist and interviewed them.   I never had a bad experience and I never felt unsafe.   Today it's a little different (lookup Craigslist Killer, stalkers, etc.).  Not that society has changed much, but the reality of doing that and what that entails certainly puts me a little uneasy.  Which leads me to think about all the people who use dating sites, webboards and such to find dates.  And how they put themselves out there and risk things like ridicule or much, much worse.  

In going forward, I will be posting on craigslist to interview people, if only to see if people have found dates on craigslist and what their experiences have been.   There's a plethora of websites now and I'm looking into FB and others to see what's available there as well.   No wonder we're running out of IP addresses!

"Older" Daters

So this is an interesting site that I've come across.  I'm wondering what people's experiences are like.  Especially since this video starts off good with a couple who looks around the same age enjoying each other's company.  But then the next couple is a little more stereotypical or unfortunately typical as he looks significantly older than she does and the picture of them on the website does as well.  Any thoughts?

Moments of Inspiration - Find God's Match for You

I just love this commercial for so many reasons but this quote is one of them:
"Sometimes we wait for God to make the next move and when God is saying 'it's your turn to act'. "
It's not that I'm mocking Christianity, nor people that follow that religion, but it's marketing, very good and clever marketing. 

I would love to hear from anyone who has subscribed to these sites and see what their experiences have been. 

The Old Script

So I thought I'd describe what the old project looks like.  If anyone is interested in seeing it, please email me and I'd be happy to send it to you.  There are 10 characters in this piece, reason number one to revise.  The stage is set with seven small cafe tables.  There are five women and three men in this piece.  The characters or interviewees were based on the interviews that were taken.  Lights up on our  our characters.  Tabitha, the Janine-Garafalo type gal, an RN with a pack a day habit, comes off tough bur her revelations gives us a softer and often painful insight into her toughness.  Irene is a type A lesbian who is looking for love in all the wrong personality traits, including hers.  Jennifer is a naive sweet thing, with a good heart and bad ideas.  Briana is your night-club hoping thirty something that needs to figure herself out before she ventures any further.  Sally rounds out the girls, no longer a girl herself but approaching her later adult years with a insiders knowledge of "professional dating."  Ken, a sort of Dwight Shrute without the arrogance, is not so bright of a bulb in the relationship department.  Joe is the married subject, wilder days behind him but with that wisdom he knows how to be a good husband and father.  And then we come to Andrew, the Stage Managerish presence that oversees the whole thing and guides the story along.  They all know they're being interviewed.  They all know what the subject is.  And what they reveal is telling, funny, poignant and sometimes just uncomfortable.  There are a male and female character that emerge and do some re-telling of stories.  And it's just way to long.  And way too difficult to stage, although I have already done it.  If you're interesting in reading it, hit me up. :)