Wow, certain areas of dating have changed alot

The big FOUR uh O is around the corner.  A few years ago, turning 40 is more zzzzzzzzzz than anything.  However, not so when it's after a divorce, split custody of the kids, and a long separation from that thing called exercise.  When you're happily married (I thought so till the divorce), have kids, bought a residence, stable job, and long enough leash to do guy things (watch sports, hang out with buddies at bars, go to casinos, mess around with the car,..), life was good, predictable, and EASY.  I've adjusted and am more accepting of the post-divorce life.  What's done is done and it's time to keep moving on.  One hurdle to that moving on was getting back into the dating scene and realizing "oh boy, dating and dating dynamics have changed a lot since getting married".

No surprise, the internet and social networks are among the biggest drivers to what has changed the dating scheme.  The rules of engagement got changed due to this use of technology.  But the biggest change is how many ways people now can find others to chat, be-friend, date, casual fling, etc..  Back in my dating years, there wasn't anything like twitter, facebook, and gazillion of on-line dating sites.  Instead of the "call me", now it's that plus text me, email me, tweet me, and the date details might be posted onto and discussed by others on facebook pages.

One area that has surprised and impressed me is the search results out of search engines - as far as breadth of dating niches being well represented on these various on-line dating sites.  I found a dating site with Asian women.  Then out of curiosity, looked at what else is there - looking at less common areas.  Found vegetarian singles, older men looking for younger women, and even stumbled on one for HIV positive people.  Guess there are lots of people looking at those dating niches else there wouldn't be that many sites catering to them.

While I try to catch up to this new tech stuff for meeting dates, I'll see if I have any dumb luck at the bars, supermarkets, etc. to see if there are ladies looking for a chubby cute Asian dude.  Oh yeah, I'll get to the gym one of these days soon - yeah, soon.