Devil's Panties

There’s a magical thing that’s happing worldwide thanks to the internet – the world is getting smaller. What does this mean in online dating terms, well it means that you’re almost guaranteed to bump into someone you know during your dating search. You see, off line when you, your friends, ex’s and family members go out to meet people – you go to different places and very easily meet different people there. But when you’re all online there’s a greater chance you’ll all end up in the same dating pool, especially if you’ve been raving to everyone that will listen about your favorite dating site like I’ve been.

So, how do you handle the situation when you bump into someone you know a little too well online? Well if it’s someone like you’re ex, it’s simple – ignore them. No use in blushing or pretending you do/don’t have a successful account and if they came up in your matches you probably showed up in theirs as well. It’s only natural; you did date them once after all, just chalk it up to the system working pretty well and delete them from your searches so you don’t bump into them later on.

What about friends and coworkers? Well – do you want to date them? Because if you do this would be the perfect time to try propelling the relationship into something a whole lot more intimate, just remember that the possibilities for fallout can be as epic as the possibilities for success so don’t freak on anyone if they’re not interested.

Finally what happens when you see family? Now that I don’t know ’cause if you’ve got the kind of taste that matches you up with your sister, brother, cousin or single dating parent – that is awkward – to say the least. I’d just pray that you don’t show up in their matches as well and try and pretend it didn’t happen.

On the other hand, there’s a slight chance that you and say, your sister, will end up with the same bevy of potential matches (I thank all that’s holy that me and my beloved sibling not only have completely different tastes but also reside in deferent states separated by hundreds of miles of potential dates which makes this possibility fairy impossible) then there’s not much you can do except try really hard to not date the same guy at the same time. It would take nearly Herculean bouts of honest communication and a lack of sibling competitiveness but could still happen.

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