As such, I prefer to meet someone in the flesh before building any kind of "rapport" with them, regardless of what our relationship (or lack thereof) entails. I still have to deal with a lot of anxiety, but it's at least without all the pre-concieved notions and uncertainty that comes with first "meeting" people on the internet vs. first meeting them in real life.

With my kind of work, I prefer in everyday life coz of the face to face encounter, 3 of my now closed friends (with benefits) started by meeting them by chance and we started dating everytime I went to their respective town (work related out of town)

I prefer building friendships/relationships that started from meeting in real life by far(!), though most gay guys I've met and dated were from online, lol.

I try both, and though I'm very used to the latter, the former is like 10x better in my opinion… I'm talking about connecting with others in a place of common ground or interest though -- not just going out in bars or in clubs, which is not really my scene.

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I try both, and though I'm very used to the latter, the former is like 10x better in my opinion… I'm talking about connecting with others in a place of common ground or interest though -- not just going out in bars or in clubs, which is not really my scene.

I deal in reality.  We're all perfect online! But, that doesn't carry over into real life.

So what are the apps and websites you guys use?

and you do not have beer goggles fooling you.

Very true… many men have turned into supermodels for a night because of beer and other alcoholic beverages  :crazy2: