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Originally Posted by jillabean
The men are common too--and when I say I met a lot of married men with OLD, most of them fell into the still married, but separated category. For me, it's a stigma to a degree (I won't date a man who is married, period), but there are three practical reasons not to date someone (man or woman) who is only separated... 1) That person might get back together with their spouse. While rare, it happens. 2) People who are going though a divorce are in for a world of drama--why voluntarily step into that world of divorce drama. And you might get dragged into it to if the other spouse wants to try and prove adultery. Even if you weren't the cause of their break-up 3) Good chance you might just be a rebound.
Oh, I agree on all those... but sometimes if they're fun and an adventure is needed... well, you know... sometimes drama spices up life a bit. It's good for the soul.
Of course, if the only reason a person is dating is to find "the one" and get a stable, monogamous relationship, that's a different thing entirely.
You mean members keep pictures up that are 5, 10 years old or the pictures are old enough by now to vote?
That too. However, I believe she meant the sites themselves keep old profiles and advertise them as active to make it look like they have a larger user base than they really do. When your subscription from Match expires, for example, they tell you they will keep your profile on file for 1 year in case you "change your mind and want to come back" you won't have to create a new one.
They leave out the part where they show your inactive profile as active on the site so others can still send winks or messages. Then Match emails you "Someone winked at you! Come back today and see who it is!" I'm speaking from experience with my own profile. I couldn't figure out why I started getting these weeks after my account expired. So my friend and I did a search from her account for my age and zip code and it showed I'd been active within 24 hours.
Location: RI, MA, VT, WI, IL, CA, IN (that one sucked), KY
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That too. However, I believe she meant the sites themselves keep old profiles and advertise them as active to make it look like they have a larger user base than they really do. When your subscription from Match expires, for example, they tell you they will keep your profile on file for 1 year in case you "change your mind and want to come back" you won't have to create a new one.
They leave out the part where they show your inactive profile as active on the site so others can still send winks or messages. Then Match emails you "Someone winked at you! Come back today and see who it is!" I'm speaking from experience with my own profile. I couldn't figure out why I started getting these weeks after my account expired. So my friend and I did a search from her account for my age and zip code and it showed I'd been active within 24 hours.
I have stumbled on some profiles that say they aren't there for dating or friends since they already have a BF/fiance and they're just looking out for there friends or looking for attention.
That too. However, I believe she meant the sites themselves keep old profiles and advertise them as active to make it look like they have a larger user base than they really do. When your subscription from Match expires, for example, they tell you they will keep your profile on file for 1 year in case you "change your mind and want to come back" you won't have to create a new one.
They leave out the part where they show your inactive profile as active on the site so others can still send winks or messages. Then Match emails you "Someone winked at you! Come back today and see who it is!" I'm speaking from experience with my own profile. I couldn't figure out why I started getting these weeks after my account expired. So my friend and I did a search from her account for my age and zip code and it showed I'd been active within 24 hours.
OLD is a real big business and a corrupt big business these days. Its why "so many women" "keep" looking at my profile on sites like BBPM and then ignore me or reject me when I contact them after "she" looks at my profile (according to BBPM) for maybe the tenth time in a month.
The computer itself must be selecting some women, then showing me their picture and telling me she "viewed" me................again.
OP, you've been creating the same sort of threads about the pitfalls of dating sites for 6 years now and still haven't ventured out from behind the screen to actually go out and meet people in the "real world". As your days of being that proverbial spring chicken rapidly wind down so your sporadic dating life remains stuck at one or two internet dating site-induced "meet-ups" each year and there's always a major problem with them.
I mean, it's all well and good to try out dating sites but if they don't work for you then what's the point of doing the same thing year after year after year when the results remain the negative same?
Get out and about, join some groups, take up some new activities, develop some hobbies - in the real world.
And how old are these women you're using as examples? Someone who doesn't take their dating profile down because "my boyfriend won't take his down" sounds very young and immature.
This is something you deal with with any dating site you have. It's not just based on gender either since a lot of guys on there are also in relationships. Also, a lot of dating sites are also used by people to just get friends. So your assumptions on what they are looking for might be off. They might also have an understand with their mates that allow this as well.
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