Online dating isn't as easy as it looks for a man.

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For every 1 reasonable looking and normal woman on such a site there is 200 men sending her penis pictures. It´s a hard barrier to break through and takes a while. Just be yourself and keep trying.

[Bakis]

For every 1 reasonable looking and normal woman on such a site there is 200 men sending her penis pictures. It´s a hard barrier to break through and takes a while. Just be yourself and keep trying.

It is hillarious and also sad when ones female friends show their inbox and what men type to them.
Equally patethic that 90% of all men and women on dating site includes "I like to work out, I'm ambitious and like to spend time outdoors" and then alot of presentations ending with Carpe Diem

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It is hillarious and also sad when ones female friends show their inbox and what men type to them.
Equally patethic that 90% of all men and women on dating site includes "I like to work out, I'm ambitious and like to spend time outdoors" and then alot of presentations ending with Carpe Diem

My biggest peeve is very VERY overweight women who know exactly how to take a picture so you don´t see they are overweight. That´s just false advertising man.

[Pitkanen]

Don't use a picture of a young child as your primary profile pic. If you don't take your own profile nobody will take you seriously, and they'll assume you are a troll/creeper/etc.

After looking at enough face only pics and clicking on profiles you'll quickly learn why it was possible for programers to use facial recognition/face pics to determine BMI with 1 or 2 accuracy. Check arms, count chins, look at the cheeks. When it doubt, in the absence of a body shot, assume they are hidding something.

But yeah, people over sell themselves. However many times a week someone implies they work out, subtract 1.5. If you want a check on education/literacy you can simply just look at what they wrote. Pictures, if you can't see it they are hiding it. Overall, online dating can work, but not usually instantly. As you consider doing online dating and you feel the need to budge the facts... perhaps it's time to make the life changes you need to make so those "facts" are real. Because most likely, that's who'd you like to be.

[Pull My Finger]

Only two kinds of people even use dating sites. Losers/insecure people and people with issues, best to stay away from both.

[Aristeia]

Only two kinds of people even use dating sites. Losers/insecure people and people with issues, best to stay away from both.

Why even say that? It's easier to meet people that are share common interests because it's plainly laid out ahead of meeting someone due to the nature of dating sites. You can't get that from blind dates or hitting up the local bar.

[ohshift]

Next time try dating as you are supposed to do: eye on eye

[XanderZone]

When you're me you don't have to search for chicks, they search for you. Women cannot resist me, my glistening abs reflecting the sun into their eyes. I'm a real-life Quagmire as you'd say. I'll never get married, and I have about 4 dates a week. I love my life.



I've only had two dates and I'm still a virgin.

[Jackmoves]

Only two kinds of people even use dating sites. Losers/insecure people and people with issues, best to stay away from both.

I havn't used them myself but I think that is mostly a social stigma. Similiar to the "everyone who plays computer games are fat nerds".

There are 100s of social stigmas. Most of them are rubbish and just horrible generalizations.

[Jeleh]

after many months of browbeating and my roommates all night sessions I took the plunge.

Made up an account on pof.com and after 3000 questions my profile was created. Some of it was horrible and I may have to fudge some of the answers next time.

My name was Jayburner and I used my current avatar as my profile. It didn't go well at all. I got shut down so fast and when I did see someone that interested me. "you are not my type" Sorry i'm only 5"9.

I'm going to try again tomorrow with a legit profile and picture and see what happens. I'll keep you guys updated.

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I think my sister/roommate works for them now. because when I got her picture was splashed all over their main page. it really freaked me out to be honest.

My advice is that if you are going to use online dating be open, honest and have a recent picture of you that shows all your features. If someone is going to contact you and go any further then it's best that they have the "real" you to save both you and her some time.

If no one likes you that's no issue, no different to passing the opposite sex in the street each day you never know and it doesn't matter if they like you or not.

[Spectral]

My biggest peeve is very VERY overweight women who know exactly how to take a picture so you don´t see they are overweight. That´s just false advertising man.

When I used Match, I got quite a few messages from fat girls. I'm 5'8", 132 pounds, a runner, and clearly list my preference for thin, fit women. Why the fuck would someone think they're a sufficiently special snowflake that I'm suddenly going to find obesity attractive? I don't get it.

[Reeve]

OK Cupid has worked fine for me when I've used it. Then again, I don't expect to meet "the one" my first go around.

[Spectral]

Only two kinds of people even use dating sites. Losers/insecure people and people with issues, best to stay away from both.

[citation needed]

The women I met seemed pretty normal.

[Grizzly Willy]

[citation needed]

The women I met seemed pretty normal.

That's just because you're a loser/insecure/have issues. Obviously.

Joking

[Faroth]

Don't forget the "too good to be true" profiles that I'm pretty sure are fake and created by the site to grab more attention and get more money from subscriptions.

For the paid sites like Match anyway.

I'm pretty sure there are a few that pull that trick.

[Spectral]

That's just because you're a loser/insecure/have issues. Obviously.

QE mf'n D

[Rukentuts]

[citation needed]

The women I met seemed pretty normal.

You pretty much have to sift through the crap, but they're out there.

[Deleted]

For a laugh I once uploaded Jimmy Raynor's pic from Starcraft 2, the highest rating he got was a 5, peoples expectation are way too high online.

[Spectral]

Don't forget the "too good to be true" profiles that I'm pretty sure are fake and created by the site to grab more attention and get more money from subscriptions.

For the paid sites like Match anyway.

I'm pretty sure there are a few that pull that trick.

Is there any evidence of this? I just assumed that some people are really awesome, because some people are really awesome.

You pretty much have to sift through the crap, but they're out there.

Yeah, I figured there was something in the ballpark of a 10:1 ratio of people that you'd contact to people you'd hear from, about a 3:1 ratio of chatting to people you'd want to meet up with, and about a 3:1 ratio of people you meet up with to people you'd be interested in dating. That would suggest ~90 messages to find someone worth dating. That seems... about right.

[Reeve]

I have a friend who met the guy she's having a baby with (and probably marrying at some point) on an online dating site. It's not exactly impossible to meet good people on those sites.

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For a laugh I once uploaded Jimmy Raynor's pic from Starcraft 2, the highest rating he got was a 5, peoples expectation are way too high online.

They expect their prospects to be real life human beings?