Internet Dating

I'd love to hear from someone out there who has had success with internet dating.

I'm on RSVP and admittedly I'm not the active on it but I haven't really had much luck.

I wrote a quirky, funny sort of profile and I'm wondering if maybe I should have been a bit more straight-up. I seem to attract contact from people who are either a) come across as desperate and over-eager in their profile or b) write very little at all or speak in SMS-speak which are both turn-offs.

I get a lot of people who exclude me because I live about 50 mins away from a capital city, which seems strange thinking to me. You're not prepared to travel less than an hour for love? Yet a lot of people restrict their searches to their postcode, which to me doesn't make any sense. I mean, wouldn't you have already met most of those people at the supermarket or something?

On the rare occasion ( and I mean three or four times), I meet up in person with someone I have met off RSVP, the witty banter and laughs I have shared with that guy don't really seem to translate to real life. Maybe it's too much pressure for a first date, I don't know.

I don't get the stigma attached to online dating, although admittedly I don't really advertise the fact I'm on there. I mean, how is it any more random than meeting someone at a bar? It's just as much of a meat market.

Has anyone out there in the blogosphere met their current partner online? Do you have any tips?