Bad Date Tale Sweeps the Web An OKCupid dater posts online about a terrible date, and gets lambasted. Then the so-called "UNBelievable jerk" chimes in. It's a tale for the '00s, folks.

By  ELIZABETH BOUGEROL

Updated 4:00 AM EDT, Mon, Jan 12, 2009

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One couple's date -- and how it went terribly wrong -- is sweeping the internet.

 

So a woman goes on a date with a guy she met online, and things don't go quite the way she was expecting. And so she fires up her computer and writes a post about it the next day, and people start to get pretty vocal about her and his behavior, and then he pops in, and, drama - lots of drama, with twists and turns and Gossip Girl-y hijinks - ensues. We're not sure who to side with, to be honest.

It's the stuff of Shakespeare, and it all makes us wonder, did the impersonal nature of the internet make the dating world more cutthroat, or did it just create a place where these tendencies could flourish on a grand scale? As in, does the web just let jerks be bigger jerks, and deceptive types deceive on a grander scale? Either way, the whole story is giving us a serious case of sad clown face. We'll have to go and comfort ourselves with this story of a couple who got engaged after "meeting" through the comments on Gawker.

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  • Thomas_from_okcupid Friday, Jan 16 at 2:38 AM FLAG COMMENT The reason this is news worthy is because the topic received over 1.4 million views to date and at its "prime" had 3,500 replies in 5 days.
  • bmsvds Monday, Jan 12 at 5:46 PM FLAG COMMENT It's the economy!
  • umm Monday, Jan 12 at 5:25 PM FLAG COMMENT Uh, friends and neighbors? Click on the link in the story.... Have a nice day!
  • HAHA Monday, Jan 12 at 12:57 PM FLAG COMMENT A high school report would have had more details... we would have know something if not everything about the date
  • Amy Monday, Jan 12 at 10:15 AM FLAG COMMENT I thought this was going to be a story about a particular date, website, or anything, but this story goes nowhere. Is there ANY editing or managing of these stories going on there at NBC10?

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