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guy with bunny ears on, photoshopped, plus made his eyes bulge out. Looking more than stupid. WHY. WHY. WHY would you do this? Make yourself look dumb so no one answers your messages so you can then complain about how unfair the world is??
I wish I could share the actual photo that I have in my mind right now. I don't know if I can give any description that would remotely do it justice. Look, I like tattoos. But this person really, REALLY looked as though they let a preschool class come at them with Sharpies. Neck, face, you name it. Androgynous person, male I think, but very female looking. Big weird fake botox lips. I really am not sure to this day, if that photo was some kind of a bad joke, or if that was an actual pic of the actual person (at the time I was unaware of reverse-image searches, or I really would have.) The profile text of this horrorshow was also full of nearly ragey hostility. I just could not understand the point of anything going on there.
Photo mistakes that I saw men making a lot: No photos without a hat or bandanna or something on. This makes me assume that you are balding and it doesn't look good. Every photo has the guy making a menacing facial expression. Look, I know we have heard that women don't rate men who are smiling in pictures as sexy, there was some article or study once that was trying to establish that we like the brooding, mysterious, not-smiling guy. That does not mean I will be into a dude who is angrily glaring at the camera like he wants to punch someone. Stop it. Bathroom selfies. Oh, and as far as I personally am concerned, "Look at these abs" selfies are like the cleavage+duckface of man-pics. But I can't speak for all women in that. Some women must be into it, I guess.
The weirdest picture I saw the main (and only) picture showed a group of people that appeared to be a shot of her and all the people she worked with.
In the text of her profile it more or less challenged men to make an interesting reply before she'd tell them which woman she is.
Me, I said to hell with this. I'm not jumping through hoops for what is essentially a woman with no profile picture. At least if a woman has a decent profile but no picture I'll send them a message, "I'm interested if you post a photo." ...... But the woman with the group shot? I added her to my ever growing list of blocked profiles. ...... I always block profiles that I don't want to see again. Oh and I block any profile that has the words "social butterfly." Just buh bye!
I have also seen some selfies that were shot so close up you can't even see the entire face. I'll get an ENT degree if I wanna see pics of nostrils.
I don't care what women say but if they disagree with this they are plain wrong: Do not use a picture of yourself and your cute daughter as your main profile picture! Most men will want to date your daughter. They won't date her but it's subliminal. Better to post a later pic of you with all your children in one shot.
The weirdest picture I saw the main (and only) picture showed a group of people that appeared to be a shot of her and all the people she worked with.
In the text of her profile it more or less challenged men to make an interesting reply before she'd tell them which woman she is.
Me, I said to hell with this. I'm not jumping through hoops for what is essentially a woman with no profile picture. At least if a woman has a decent profile but no picture I'll send them a message, "I'm interested if you post a photo." ...... But the woman with the group shot? I added her to my ever growing list of blocked profiles. ...... I always block profiles that I don't want to see again. Oh and I block any profile that has the words "social butterfly." Just buh bye!
I have also seen some selfies that were shot so close up you can't even see the entire face. I'll get an ENT degree if I wanna see pics of nostrils.
I don't care what women say but if they disagree with this they are plain wrong: Do not use a picture of yourself and your cute daughter as your main profile picture! Most men will want to date your daughter. They won't date her but it's subliminal. Better to post a later pic of you with all your children in one shot.
I actually find it kind of creepy when anyone posts pictures on OLD that include their children, at all. I believe however that those who have kids should be extra careful when dating. I took my time, before introducing anyone in my post-divorce love life to my sons. I needed to a.) Feel very certain that they were GOOD PEOPLE, not merely safe, but the kind of people worth letting my kids even meet, positive and healthy people and b.) Believe that they would be around in my life at least a while.
My ex dated a woman, where their very first date was her kid's birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese. And even after she "friend-zoned" him (his words) she would occasionally call and ask if he might be willing to transport one of her several children across town for some activity since she was busy or working or something. They did not date long, and I don't feel she knew him well enough for that level of trust, the whole thing was nuts to me.
Just to make it clear, I'm dating age appropriate women for me which means almost an absolute certainty their children are all adults or then some. It should be against TOS to post pictures of minors, although I guess that's probably done. It's the same old argument as posting baby pictures on FB. There are preverts everywhere [sic].
I can see the women in the age range I'm dating posting a few pictures of their family but they should not dwell on it, we men know you ladies are proud of your family, and many (like me) like the idea of a woman with a family (because I never had children and miss having a family), but there is such a thing as over-doing it. Post your dog or cat instead!
Sporkie, you did it again! "Friend-zoned!" We need to start a dating glossary!
Whatever happened to just posting a regular photo of a person NOT doing anything but just looking at the camera and smiling??
1.Tired of seeing posts of a guy with his kid or kids
2.Photo where it's a group picture posted as the MAIN photo so you're having to guess who the guy is BUT then of course he has a 2nd photo of just HIM but by then,,,you were already attracted to one of the guys in the group photo lol
3. Photo that is animated and nothing else
This is why it's much better to NOT do online dating.Going out there and seeing face to face in their natural environment is always the best way to go.
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Whatever happened to just posting a regular photo of a person NOT doing anything but just looking at the camera and smiling??
1.Tired of seeing posts of a guy with his kid or kids
2.Photo where it's a group picture posted as the MAIN photo so you're having to guess who the guy is BUT then of course he has a 2nd photo of just HIM but by then,,,you were already attracted to one of the guys in the group photo lol
3. Photo that is animated and nothing else
This is why it's much better to NOT do online dating.Going out there and seeing face to face in their natural environment is always the best way to go.
It rarely is. OLD is sooooo much more effective and you'll meet people you will never meet relying on random encounters. Heck. I have met a dozen cool people within a quarter mile radius in the past year that if I depended on random encounters out and about I probably wouldn't have talked to in 25 years even if we did end up at the same place and the same time.
How often are people just saying, hey, take my photo?! If a photo is being taken, it is because you're doing something, usually out with friends, so yeah, there is activity.
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Whatever happened to just posting a regular photo of a person NOT doing anything but just looking at the camera and smiling??
I see LOTS of those, but they are usually professional photos that aren't the actual person, so they are scammers, 30 years younger than me (every fake profile seems to have their age as 29 or 30), and their profile is "removed" the next day. If they are real and do write, it gives a link to their porn site.
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