I haven't had any success with online dating sites. However I know people who have met their partners through art forums they have frequented for years, Yahoo personals and friend sites such as Lavalife or Match.com or Plentyoffish.
I've made profiles on Lavalife and Match.com. I was contacted by several guys and even met 3.
1. One guy who I really hit it off with is 12 years younger than me. We each felt like we had known each other our whole lives!! However, he had separated from his first love (high school sweetheart) about 9 months prior after 7 years of marriage. And he never dealt with the separation. He didn't want the separation, but she did. It turns out that he was secretly hoping that she would change her mind. I was his rebound. I broke it off because he was too darn confused at that point.
A few months later he contacted me telling me that their divorce was nearly final and he was looking to see me again. I told him to go be single for awhile and that he needs to figure out what it is he wants in life.
2. Another guy was around my age. I contacted him initially. Aparently it was an old ad that he hadn't taken down. We talked in MSN Messenger. Turns out he was already involved with someone in another province and they had flown back and forth to meet. I respected that. Over the next couple of months a few times a week we would talk in MSN. Basically about our day and the weather. Literally short (about 5 minutes) generic conversations.
One day when I was logging out of MSN I told him that I needed to go make dinner. He said that he hadn't eaten either and suggested that we go and grab something to eat together. I agreed.
He picked me up and we went to a steak house not far from where I live. Not only did he stink of cigarette smoke from head to toe, but his car stunk like an dirty old ashtray. His ad didn't say anything about him smoking.
The only new things I learned about him during that 2 months in MSN was that he had been divorced for 6 years I think. He had 2 teenage kids from his first marriage. She got the house, but his name was still on the mortgage!!! He wasn't making payments on the house, but he was making sizable child support payments. In that 6 years he never learned to cook or clean because he depended on his daughter to do it when she would visit him. According to him, he didn't know how to clean!! Oh and that he worked in construction. Like I said, pretty short and generic conversations.
We sat in the smoking section (gags), and he had a cigarette in his hand the entire time we were there, even when he was eating. He smoked between bites. It was the grossest thing I've ever witnessed.
After dinner, he drove me home and we said good night at the outside door. I gave him a small hug and thanked him and told him that it was nice to finally put a face to the text. And we said good night. After that day he went from messaging me a few times a week to doing so every single day, and he was now using emotes such as flowers and such.
The next thing I know, within a 2 week period, he's telling me that he's in love with me and how he bought a house trailor in some small town near the city and how he wanted me to see it because it needed a woman's touch.
I told him that there was no "us" and that he was involved with someone already and I don't step on other women's toes and that we had agreed that we were meeting for dinner strictly as friends. He told me that his girl friend sees other people, so why can't he? And then he got really desperate and in short, he ended up begging to be let into my bed!!!
I blocked him and put him into my "just another loser" catagory.
3. The last guy I met wasn't bad looking and he sounded very nice. We talked in MSN for a couple of hours. He was deeply intelligent and had 2 degrees, one in agriculture and the other in math or something like that. We made arrangements to meet. It was December and he asked what I would like to do. I suggested a drive around the city looking at house Christmas displays. Before we logged off I gave him my phone number and he asked if he could call me after we logged off, so we could at least have talked to each other "in person" prior to meeting. I agreed.
I cringed when I heard his voice. He looked like a huge teddy bear. 6'2" tall and a bit chubby. So I wasn't expecting him to sound like Donald Duck! We did meet. He was a nice guy, but in person we really didn't have much in common and there were several awkward silences. We drove around looking at Christmas displays and he took me to one that the city was putting on at the race track where you drove in your car and listened to the music on a specific radio channel. Then we went to a piano bar across the city for a drink. He suggested it, but I knew the place and really liked it. Turns out he lived across the street from it so he parked his car in his parking spot and we walked across the street.
He had 2 or 3 and I was worried about getting into a car with someone who had that many, plus the police were out in full force looking for drunk drivers. I suggested that maybe it would be better if I took a taxi home? He agreed that it would be because he didn't want to get nabbed for a DUI.
I called a cab. He waited with me. When the cab came, before I could get in, he grabbed me and kissed me. Let's just say it was sloppy and gross and that he nearly removed my tonsils!! *gags* He didn't even offer to pay for my cab home. It cost me $25.00 (like I said, it was across the city). He contacted me a few times after that, but I finally told him that I didn't feel a connection with him. Which was true. But I was also offended by how he took liberties with me, and that whole $25 cab ride just buggegd me!!
4. Then there was the stalker! Well, not really, but it was close! LOL I forget which site we met on. He seemed nice, and his picture was "hot!" It showed him on a beach in Hawaii. We talked in MSN for about 6 weeks before agreeing to meet. I have a good insight to people. My gut told me that he was harmless, so I invited him over for dinner. I asked him what his favourite meal was and he told me "roast beef", so I said I would make that.
On the day he was to come over, he must have called me 30 times! (hence the term "stalker" LOL) He didn't have anything important to say, he was just basically giving me a play by play of his day.
Anyway, he shows up on time. Points for him. He looked nothing like the picture he sent to me. The picture showed a guy about his age that looked relatively fit. In person he was chubby (which is ok), but his gut looked like he was about ready to pop out triplets!!
As he sat down at the table he said "I'm not very hungy, I had a late lunch." I asked him what time he had lunch, he said "about an hour ago." So basically he had about 1 bite of everything. As I cleared the table he went and sat on the couch. I brought the wine to the living room and found him laying stretched out on my couch, sound asleep. I watched "Chicago" by myself and when it was over I woke him up and told him to be on his merry way!
I then sent him an email telling him that it was nice to have met him but that I didn't feel that we had any chemistry and that based on the previous evening, I think he would agree with me. I never heard from him again.
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I found that there are a lot of married men on those sites looking for affairs.
One guy who contacted me from Lavalife turned out to be the husband of a co-worker. Same first name, played in a band, worked at a printing company. When I mentioned her name, he disconnected from me and blocked me on the stie.
I signed up for eHarmony. eHarmony was a colossal waste of money. I had a pretty narrow distance selected because I am not into long distance relationships. However I wasn't getting any matches. So I expanded the distance. After that I was being sent matches for guys in the states living on FARMS!!!
I HATE FARMS!
I'm a city girl through and through. I live in the heart of downtown. I would love to live in a city of
millions! I hate camping or rural living. In fact my idea of getting back to the great outdoors is opening my apartment window! Yet they were matching me up with farmers!!!
None of these sites, even eHarmony, screen people. So it's up to each person to weed out the wackos. And believe me, there are plenty of them out there!
It might be worth a shot, just remember that him having a positive experience doesn't mean you will! From what I've heard, though, it's a pretty legit site that works hard to match you based on common factors. I think if you put in your profile that you're deaf and would prefer someone else who is, you may get some bites! 
GOOD LUCK! 
My sister met a decent guy through internet, it didn't work out though. She doesn't have any problems finding guys offline either so she quit online dating.
