about using dating sites and meeting people from here?
If so, what kind of concerns do they have? and do you have any other comments related to your meeting somebody from the web?

I've only told my mum and my kids out of my family, and one friend who I discuss things with, tell her about who i've met and suchlike.
I dont tell anyone else becaue i dont figure it any ones business, my dad wouldnt understand the concept bless him, my mum is very positive and interested and my kids first thought i was a saddo but my eldest son met vanda and eddy with me and now they see it as i see it, a good way to meet some really nice people, and as i've hardly had any 'dates' it isnt really an issue that we discuss.
When i had 'dates' I gave my son his mobile number and where/when/showed him his photo before we met up in case i ended up in a black bin bag in pieces hahaha!
My son met his wife thru a network of friends on msn, so he cant really say owt can he?!

That sounds good, but I try not to say much about the people I meet from the web to my parents or sister as they seem to worry or disapprove thinking that I should just meet people 'normally'(whatever that is!)
Sometimes I tell my grown up kids who I'm meeting, but usually it's a couple of close friends who know the most including 'safety details' and all the who, where and whyfors.

only a handful of my mates know bout it - its hard to drop it into conversation - i dont like to bother my parents bout it cos they old school when it comes to how u should go bout dating.

one of the girls i met off here told her mates that we met at a club - in a way i was relieved cos it was more socially acceptable then online dating but i was a tad paranoid that this meant she was embarrassed by it all

My friend met a guy from a dating site and after her going on about him for a few weeks,I realised that not only was he somebody I knew too, but I knew he was still in love with his ex my other best mate.

Anyhow, he didn't want anyone to know about his being on dating sites so I've kept quiet but it does feel a bit weird when it's obviously a liklihood that he'll be seen anyway if people do a local search.

only my elder brother knows it & he keeps bugging me that I should spend less time over net.

I told some family and friends about it, and don't care what anyone thinks. They know that I don't need these sites.

Haven't had any negative comments, only about the meets and the dangers they perceive there are about meeting people on the net. They think people on the net are all ax murderers, especially my mum

Not really fussed who knows to be honest. Might be different if I was younger.

Net dating is only going to get bigger and more common, as is everything on the net. Just need more women to join up to balance things up

Most of my family and friends know ........... my sister thinks it is really sad but who cares ........... not that i date anyone from the net anymore, but when i did my Mum was a little concerned if they were guna be a mad axe murderer, but luckily everyone i have met have been relatively normaly ........ my friend at work met his wife on the net, he now has a baby girl and another on the way. I dont know why it should be embarrassing, maybe if your a serial net dater, start your own threads and it goes tits up ........... something i would never do .......... xxx

Internet dating is certainly more socially acceptable than it used to be, and people I know (or speak to about it) seem quite unsurprised when it (‘it’ usually being my own online dating escapades) comes up in conversation. Indeed, many people show genuine interest in the etiquette involved in online dating, rather than make comments and issue warnings - which, by the way, is a bit silly; if someone hasn’t done it themselves, where does that wealth of ‘knowledge’ that they are so keen to impart come from?

My friend went out to dinner with a guy from the web and he told her that he'd murdered his wife, she phoned to tell me to check it up and it was TRUE!

I met a girl from the net once and during our date she told me she was a nymphomaniac

...i was gutted!

I told my family how I met Mr DH and I think there was some concern at first, but once some had met him and realised how happy he made me it was no longer an issue. It was a topic of conversation that reared it's head in the first month or so, but as I pointed out the alternatives to meeting someone, (in a pub or club etc,) they seemed to accept that it was just a positive extension of the modern world we now live in.

I have no shame in the way I met Stu, we have a good, honest and loving relationship and if anyone ever asks how we met I am always truthful, but saying that I wasn't with my children about how we'd met until about a month after. They were 10 and 16 at the time and I was concerned that they'd be worried for me.

I think it is up to the individual as to whether they share with others, like every aspect of their personal life.

My eldest daughter says "good luck to ya"

I've told 1 friend. It's no more anyones business than what I do if I go to the pub, into the town etc etc.