by Allison Saltzman

Created on: March 15, 2007   Last Updated: April 24, 2007

If you would have told me I would EVER date someone from Myspace 6 months ago, I probably would have laughed and told you that you were nuts!

I had been single for about a year, went through a pretty rough break up with my ex-fiance (as if that doesn't say enough). I decided to drown my sorrows in partying and drinking, probably not the smartest idea, but it got me through a rough point in my life. I had met many people in my many drunken excursions to the bars, guys and girls.

Have you ever met someone at a bar? I found that the bars I frequented were the same people over and over again, and the same pick up lines. It was starting to get old. I met some really cool people, made some good friends, and also met some complete losers, and jerks.

I was home one Sunday afternoon, bored, and boredom of course leads to Myspace for some reason. I had heard of so many people meeting on Myspace, successful and not and thought to myself, "Screw it, I have already met some of the biggest losers, and weirdos in the bars what do I have to lose by giving it a shot on Myspace?" So I proceeded to click into the almost always forbidden "browse" button to see what kind of guys were in my area that were... well hot, to be honest. I sent out my friend requests to a few people, and the last one I was trying to friend request wouldn't go through for whatever reason, probably bogged down by all the Myspace users, bored and online on a Sunday afternoon like me. To be honest, I gave up after a few tries, realizing it was not working. I got a little frustrated with the computer and signed off.

Well it was creeping into early Sunday evening and I was again fading into boredom and decided to check my "friend requests" to see if any of them had accepted me yet. So I signed on and realized that there were actually a few that had accepted me, and two that had written me a message, one of which was the one that I thought didn't go through!

He happened to be online at the time so we started chatting, and finally figured out how to work the Myspace Instant Messenger. It happened to be the weekend before Halloween so him and a few of his friends were heading to the local bar in costume to party that night (half off night at the local bar, big night to party there). He asked me if I would meet him there, but of course being a girl there was no way I was going to be able to get into costume and get cute that fast, so I told him I probably wouldn't be there.

A friend of mine happened to be going there that night (not in costume) and asked if I would accompany him so that he would not be the only one not in costume. I reluctantly did. Myspace guy sent me a text message just before I had gotten there wondering if I had changed my mind, and I admitted that yes I would be there. He called me when he got there I saw him walk in on his phone, and WOW, much hotter than I had thought (you know how deceiving those Myspace pictures can be!).

We ended up hanging out a little bit at the bar, and he happened to know some of my friends really well. Well the night ended with a few of us heading back to one of our mutual friend's house, and we ended up staying up after everyone had already passed out talking for hours about everything. We made plans to hang out on Halloween, and hung out like everyday for a week thereafter. And minus a few days off have hung out almost everyday since.

We have a lot in common, and are both taking it slow from here, but it has been almost 5 months and I couldn't be happier.

So if you asked me today about dating from Myspace my answer would be to be careful, but give it a shot, what do you have to lose? I am now proof that you can find love on Myspace :)

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