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When I was young, my elders used to quote the likes of Plato and Aristotle to me as guidance. It's a sign of the times that nowadays the best advice you one can usually give is the above quote ...
You obviously haven't had much experience online dating, lol. It's not 'spamming', it's called 'playing the numbers', and it's a vicious cycle.
I'm talking about sending out the same letter to all of them all at once. If this doesn't work maybe he could put a coupon in the val-pack coupon envelope and reach an even wider audience.
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I'm talking about sending out the same letter to all of them all at once. If this doesn't work maybe he could put a coupon in the val-pack coupon envelope and reach an even wider audience.
I've done that before . But only when I was desperate...
At first I did try to take the time to read their profiles and put something meaningful and relevant in my post, but when your strike rate is 1 in 10 or less, you get a bit fed up of it. My messages weren't all 'hey sexy...' type stuff, but more witty one liners. Actually usually it was sending something short but different to each person.
Oh, come on. Plenty of well-adjusted people use online dating. And plenty of men who have friends, and interests, and hobbies and stuff have difficulty meeting women. Contrary to what you may have seen on television or in bad romantic comedies, not every man who has trouble finding dates spends most of his time aimlessly sitting in front of the TV, playing video games or crying in his beer. It doesn't mean you are some boring pushover without a personality or a social life, just waiting for a woman to come along and make it all better. And there's nothing wrong with feeling down about it from time to time.
That said, I doubt this experiment will work. Online dating is definitely a numbers game, but I think the OP would have better success if he aimed to send fewer messages, sustained, over a period of time - say one or two per week or something like that. You gotta actually read the girl's profile (and why would you want to message somebody if you didn't?) and, unless you really do spend all of your time sitting in front of the TV, you surely do not have enough time to compose 100 reasonably well-thought-out messages in the span of a few days (and if you do have enough time to do that then, yeah, ignore my first paragraph and actually go find something to do).
To make this a really random pool of candidate you will need to collect at least 500 to 750 ids. That is without reading any of them. Just randomly choose a method to fill up the list. After the list is filled, one id on each ticket place them in a fish bowl shake well after each pick. This would give you a pretty randomized population of candidates to test your theory.
Hope this helps.
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. But only when I was desperate...
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