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The Online Dating Thread Part II **Mod Warning** Read First Post/or Post 7389

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,754 ✭✭✭Itwasntme.


    My thoughts on it would be that anyone that has those types of pictures up are just piss takers,and not the good kind tbh.Not saying you are of course,but thats perception for ya!

    Wow. Should watch that PoF vid again. I seem to be getting this all wrong. Would you still consider it taking the piss on a 'looking for friends' profile though?

    Photo taken down while I figure this out. I honestly think it is funny and I put it up as indication of what makes me laugh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,754 ✭✭✭Itwasntme.


    To me, a picture like that instead of an actual photo somewhat gives off the impression that you're not serious about the whole online dating business and would put me off to an extent.

    It wasn't my main photo though. Just one of my photos- I have-had- several up.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭c - 13


    The more time I spend on PoF the more I'm amazed by the amount of people who have their profession listed as teacher and either cant spell or have their profile written entirely in text speak.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,065 ✭✭✭stargazer 68


    Bugger. It seems that you do have to upgrade to meet new people on POF.com??

    I thought it was free? It's the same on POF Ireland.

    Am I the only one who can only find one POF site?? As in POF.com
    :confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,404 ✭✭✭✭Pembily


    Dovies wrote: »
    Am I the only one who can only find one POF site?? As in POF.com
    :confused:

    Nope I only see pof.com!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,631 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    Dovies wrote: »
    Am I the only one who can only find one POF site?? As in POF.com
    :confused:

    http://www.plentymorefish.com/ie_dating/ie_dating.html. There's the second one.


  • Administrators Posts: 53,127 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,065 ✭✭✭stargazer 68



    Plenty more fish not plenty of fish! 2 different sites


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,631 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    awec wrote: »
    That'd be PMF then.

    LOL. :o:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,065 ✭✭✭stargazer 68


    LOL. :o:D

    Jesus Mickey no wonder I was confused - was nearly putting my wine back in the fridge!! :eek::eek::eek:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Guy gets in a huff coz I won't add him to Facebook. Fair enough. :rolleyes:


  • Administrators Posts: 53,127 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,065 ✭✭✭stargazer 68


    Larianne wrote: »
    Guy gets in a huff coz I won't add him to Facebook. Fair enough. :rolleyes:

    I never add dates to my FB!! Sod im! :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,631 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    Larianne wrote: »
    Guy gets in a huff coz I won't add him to Facebook. Fair enough. :rolleyes:

    LOL




  • How else is he going to perve at your photos? :(

    :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    awec wrote: »
    He only wants your facebook to get more pictures most likely. Just right to say no. :)
    Dovies wrote: »
    I never add dates to my FB!! Sod im! :D

    I've frickin three up on the site!

    I said in a joking way They are the best pics you'll get of me and that ones on FB were shockin ones from trips away etc. :D

    Then he said "You're hiding, okay".

    I don't add people to FB. End of.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,631 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    Larianne wrote: »
    I've frickin three up on the site!

    I said in a joking way They are the best pics you'll get of me and that ones on FB were shockin ones from trips away etc. :D

    Then he said "You're hiding, okay".

    I don't add people to FB. End of.

    Hiding? LOL


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,117 ✭✭✭AnnyHallsal



    Yeah I figured that online dating would be similar to real life dating where the vast majority of women hold all the cards and just sit back waiting to be approached. I thought, well was hoping really, that at least some women would be willing to take a chance and send a message or make an approach as you don't need a fraction of the confidence that they would need in real life plus the rejection isn't nearly as bad as it would be to their face.

    Even though I'm on match.com now I might give the free sites ago but I was advised to steer well clear of them as they are apparently full of txt speaking young girls with ridiculously high expectations looking for twentysomething guys who put up photos of their sixpacks. That might be a total cliché but I really don't think my fragile ego could handle the apparent ego massaging on sites like OKC or POF. I might have to bite the bullet on that too unfortunately.

    Lastly I am Dublin based but I'm very open to meet women of any nationality either here, in another part of the country or abroad, so they don't have to be Irish women at all, infact I would mind a foreign woman for a change.

    Hence the patience and persistence. Plenty of people on this thread have had .. dry spells ... only to suddenly strike it lucky with someone who feels lucky too. Try not to let it affect your confidence - it's not as if the other men are inundated with replies and offers! What you're experiencing is the norm. I think you should definitely check out the free sites. You've nothing to lose, and a couple of the fellas here got talking to overseas girls on ok cupid I think in particular.

    Good luck!


  • Administrators Posts: 53,127 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


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  • Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Hiding? LOL

    yeah. :rolleyes:
    awec wrote: »
    If you add him to facebook, go on a date with him and then find he's a total oddball then you're screwed as he already knows all the stuff about you from facebook, your friends etc.

    Surely one of the points of online dating is meeting up for no strings attached dating (and I don't mean that in the no strings attached sex way). I just mean you go on a date, have a bit of fun and see how it goes without having to know each others life story!

    If it hits off and you get together then brilliant! But at the same time if it doesn't work out you've lost nothing, you can just not meet again. You lose part of that benefit when you start adding to facebook in my opinion.

    Sorry, that was a bit of a rant. :o

    Yeah, I agree with you completely. Not sure why he wanted it. :confused:

    I don't like nosey people anyway! :pac:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭JennyBurke101


    I find these sites get boring very fast :( Have I found my Donnacha O'Callaghan??? No ...no I have not :( Just a load of perverts!!


  • Administrators Posts: 53,127 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


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  • Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    I find these sites get boring very fast :( Have I found my Donnacha O'Callaghan??? No ...no I have not :( Just a load of perverts!!

    Do what I do. Make your profile hidden and then you message the guys. Eliminates the pervs. ALthough having said that, I never got any pervs. :cool: Well maybe one... I think.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,631 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    I'm not a perv.

    Don't tar us all with the same brush. :(




  • Larianne wrote: »
    Do what I do. Make your profile hidden and then you message the guys. Eliminates the pervs. ALthough having said that, I never got any pervs. :cool: Well maybe one... I think.

    Me?

    :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Me?

    :pac:

    You're not on POF! (Glad its hidden now!) :pac:

    @ Mental Mickey - I think she meant, the only guys who messaged her (or the majority at least) were of the pervy kind.


  • Administrators Posts: 53,127 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


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  • Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    awec wrote: »
    Someone viewed my OKC profile who looks like the girl in your avatar Larriane, was it you? :pac:

    I'm not on OKC. Plus, I don't look like Cheetara. (I wish!)


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,631 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    Got a reply to a message I sent to someone.

    Said that I wasnt their type but wished me luck


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  • Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭JennyBurke101


    Larianne wrote: »
    Do what I do. Make your profile hidden and then you message the guys. Eliminates the pervs. ALthough having said that, I never got any pervs. :cool: Well maybe one... I think.


    Ooooohhhh that sounds like a deadly idea!!!! I think I might just do that ...although I have to be honest I don't like sending messages to guys first...I dont want that to sound really bad ...but its kinda true .... I am just going to apply for the next series of Take Me Out ..its the only solution :P


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