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The Online Dating Thread Part II **Mod Warning** Read First Post/or Post 7389
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I'm 37. Hitting on someone 12 years my junior would make me a cougar but I'm not cut out for it (and I know you are "only" 8 years my junior)
Mountain lions are cool
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Armaghmagic wrote: »Just home from my date, was a fantastic night, the kangaroo was melt in your mouth delicious, she looked gorgeous in a little black dress, she was easy to talk to, we went for a few drinks in a nice music bar then I drove her home, and I gave my massaging hands a workout which she seemed to enjoy!
Both want to do it again so here is to the next date! POF could be taking a back seat soon (fingers crossed!)
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How's everyone getting on? Thought I'd get back into the internet dating. Question for the guys, do you message profiles without pics? I have mine on private. Still get a good few messages from guys (the usual crap though to be honest)...I was thinking of puttting my pics up but just don't want anyone to recognise me
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How's everyone getting on? Thought I'd get back into the internet dating. Question for the guys, do you message profiles without pics? I have mine on private. Still get a good few messages from guys (the usual crap though to be honest)...I was thinking of puttting my pics up but just don't want anyone to recognise me
When I was using it I did message profiles with no picture but it had to be a really well thought out profile for me to do so.0 -
No pic no message to be honest.
At the very least attach pictures to any message you send
Oh I do that!Otis Driftwood wrote: »When I was using it I did message profiles with no picture but it had to be a really well thought out profile for me to do so.
Ah well my profile is pretty amazing so hopefully I'll have nothing to worry about :pac:0 -
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How's everyone getting on? Thought I'd get back into the internet dating. Question for the guys, do you message profiles without pics? I have mine on private. Still get a good few messages from guys (the usual crap though to be honest)...I was thinking of puttting my pics up but just don't want anyone to recognise me
I message picless profiles, they often ask for my pic and I send one and never hear from them again :rolleyes:0 -
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Ah sure it's only fair that ya send a pic on, of course I just don't want one up in public
Also, I'd rather get ignored after sending a pic, than be led on or even get a message saying 'sorry you're not my type'! If you're ignored after sending a pic, it's safe to assume they're not attracted to you. No biggie.0 -
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Nerves should go once you sit down....I always get butterflies before meeting someone, but usually chill pretty quickly.That's why it's important to keep first meets very informal, less pressure.
Anyway, what's the worse that could happen.....
Probably best not to think of worst case scenarios when it comes to internet dating :pac:0 -
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hairyprincess wrote: »Just forced myself into sending a couple of messages. My heart just isn't in this
You might be better off taking a break from it for a while if that's the case, online dating can get a little full on....
If you're not that into it, I wouldn't bother imo.0 -
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Otis Driftwood wrote: »They can smell the hawt off ya D,I'd take it as a compliment.
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Go back to your Guinness you drunken poster! 0 -
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So I literally just signed up to POF. 5 mins in, 5 messages! 1 saying "So you look hot" even though my pictures are on private!
When you create a new profile and add photos to it sometimes POF takes a few minutes to register that your photos should be set to 'Private', so it's possible that the person saw your photos in that short space of time before they were hidden. Of course the alternative that it was simply a copy & paste message you received is also quite possible given that it is POF. Oh the constant struggle of online dating, do we live as an optimist or a realist. :rolleyes:
Anyhow, things are a bit slow on my ventures; I've been chatting to a nice girl for a few days, she is the short message reply type which would usually make me guess that the person is just trying to be polite by replying even though they're not interested, the messages do however contain questions trying to progress the conversation so I'll live in hope for the moment 0 -
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Gosh darn it! Well, we'll see how things go from here. Any tips? Not going to lie, I've been reading this thread and it doesn't fill me with hope!
The only things I can offer is that you set up some restrictions on who can mail you, just to cut out those only looking for penpals, those who admit to being married or who have mailed persons looking for NSA. The Minimum characters in the first mail settings is a good option too as it'll make people put effort into a mail to you, so cuts out time wasters.
Add a few hooks to your profile for interested people to latch on to in their mails to you. i.e. interests, hobbies activities. Otherwise you'll get simple copy & paste messages or terrible pick up lines. Oh and 'Prefer not to say' in any of the answer boxes will always make people suspicious.
When you do get a mail or see a users profile that interests you it is worth throwing the url of one or more of their pics in tineye just to make sure that the picture is not simply stolen from the net meaning a fake profile.
These things will help but you will still get messages from weirdos, assholes, timewasters, people looking for NSA or FWB. Despite all the negatives there are some genuine nice people on the site so it is worth the sifting effort. Though the worst part of online dating is the whole 'oh they're nice but I won't pick them as someone better could come along' aspect to it which leads to promising mail exchanges simply ending abruptly. 0 -
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