Quote Originally Posted by denuseri View Post
Funny thing is not only did google work just fine for finding real life bdsm groups and clubs long before fetlife showed up to make money on it...it still does...so why bother with the middleman?.
I heavily doubt hat fetlife makes as much money as, say, Google. At least it doesn't don't show up in the worlds top hundred most valuable companies.

What I don't like about fetlife is that I have to deal with idiot's messages all the time and that people who send me an unsolicited friendship request actually expect me to explain why I trash them.
One of the blokes from where I live said "I want to follow you" when I asked him why he sent me a friendship request. Oh yeah, thanks, but no, thanks...

Apart from all that: Yes, there is no substitution for real life. But online can get amazingly real, too, especially for a imagination junky like me.