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What I don't understand, is why they go so far in their deception. When I first tried online dating, I met more "my pic is recent, but it looks like it's a scanned print from 1990" who showed up as if they swallowed the poor girl in their profile pic. Because of these experiences I won't even respond to anyone who won't skype immediately. And when I skype, I don't want a screen full of cleavage either, I need to see all of them.
Don't let tineye or google image searches give you false hope that a person is legit....I learned that recently
a) more success at what? getting attention alone? that's why I mentioned in my OP that I was always under the impression that men don't care about getting attention from women if it's not going to result in anything?
The idea is that (even subconsciously), the person THNKS it COULD lead to more dating success, not just attention. In the case of misrepresenting looks (which, as I mentioned before, both genders are guilty of), they might hope that the other person would overlook those things "once they got to know them", or whatever.
What I don't understand, is why they go so far in their deception. When I first tried online dating, I met more "my pic is recent, but it looks like it's a scanned print from 1990" who showed up as if they swallowed the poor girl in their profile pic. Because of these experiences I won't even respond to anyone who won't skype immediately. And when I skype, I don't want a screen full of cleavage either, I need to see all of them.
Don't let tineye or google image searches give you false hope that a person is legit....I learned that recently
Or, you can just ask to meet right away.
That's what I do.
Skype just prolongs meeting. I can't stand interacting through a screen when you can be together.
I have never had a man misrepresent what they look like with me on the internet, but I have had them lie about things like smoking and drinking and things of the like.
I have no idea why they do that. I would not want to be with a smoker and I always said so on my profile, but I went on dates with several smokers who said they didn't smoke. Why lie about that? Did they think I would never find out???
I was always under the impression (from having it hammered into my head from men) that men don't really talk to women just for attention alone. They talk to women because they want something from them. So, now I'm wondering why men would bother with catfishing a woman?
On the dating site, this happened to me a lot. 4/5 attractive men who contacted to me first were misrepresenting themselves - mostly about how they looked. It made me wonder a) Why do they do it? and b) What was it about me that made them seek ME out to do it to?
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