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Comment by remailer404 | Hacker News Reader

Wow! I met my wife just over 7 years ago there, and our 2nd kid is due in a few months. Hard to believe that the personals section is gone.

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It's definitely changed over the past 7 years, being filled with mostly escort/sugar baby ads in recent times.

Which only happened because they were first forced to close the previous escort sections several years ago.

Using CL personals led me to a blind date with a Canadian 16 years ago. Still on that date :)

Did they kidnap you?

Did get swept off my feet, but never forced.

Since I'm a relatively old guy, I'll tell you how it used to work. Before cell phones, online dating and apps, the way people met people was through friends, or at work, or god forbid, randomly approaching a stranger and introducing oneself, usually at a nightclub or bar, but sometimes at a supermarket or cafe. Rejection happened in one's face publicly in front of other people!

That sounds awful. So much pressure to place on what ought to be everyday interactions!

Plenty of people also met through newspaper personal ads...

Don’t forget the video dating.

Like VHS

Ohhhh yeah. Go watch some of the videos on yt. Their brutally awkwardly hilarious.

Someone just shared their heartwarming tale about how they met their spouse using craigslist personals and you have the audacity to tell them that their story is illegitimate because "back in my day" people met differently? Have some heart and recognize that their story of how they met is legitimate, cherished, and deserves protection.

I'm just trying to provide some historical information for millenials.

I'm a millenial and even I think dating apps are for pussies.

And back in my day your parents would find a good match for you and that would be that. You youngsters screwed up the whole courting scene. It used to be a man could get a good wife if he only had a job. Then you needed charm. And the whippersnappers of today are even worse! Using text!

It sucked in comparison.

Met my first wife at college, the "old school" way. Met my current wife through OKCupid (after seeing another girl I was dating at the time using it).

I knew more about my second wife before I'd ever messaged her. Saves a lot of wasted effort simply basing the book on its cover.

Curious to know what city you lived in when you met. I also met my wife via an online dating site about 7 years ago, and at the time we were under the impression that CL personals were super sketch. Obviously it isn't that way everywhere, but where I am (Palo Alto) that was the belief among all of my friends.

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