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I'm more perplexed that there are high school seniors using OLD than anything else.
Pure speculation on my part, but I am willing to bet a lot of those 18-year-olds are bots/have scammers on the other end of the keyboard. I say this from what I experienced in my online dating days (years ago).
Which brings me to this:
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The men's side is even more of a paradox for me. To be desirable by this study's definition, if I understand it correctly, you need to be contacted by a fairly high # of people and some or many of them need themselves to be contacted frequently. So with women's desirability peaking at 18, for that 50 year old guy to be desirable a decent % of much younger women need to be contacting him. More 18-25 year old women would need to be contacting him than are contacting 30 or 35 year old men. And that's a stretch. Most 25 year old women, I would think, are interested in 25 year old men, give or take a few years. So the results seem weird in that regard.
And yes, bringing this up at all is kind of a dick move.
If what I suspect is correct, and most of those 18-year-olds and such are scammers, they will be contacting delusional men and that includes 50-year-old men. Scammers pick pictures of models or near models and love to advertise "barely legal." And there are a lot of them in online dating. They target people who might be smitten by a pretty face and have money. That would be men who are 40+ and at 50, a lot are at the peak of their careers and making the more money than they ever have.
Pure speculation on my part, but I am willing to bet a lot of those 18-year-olds are bots/have scammers on the other end of the keyboard. I say this from what I experienced in my online dating days (years ago).
Which brings me to this:
If what I suspect is correct, and most of those 18-year-olds and such are scammers, they will be contacting delusional men and that includes 50-year-old men. Scammers pick pictures of models or near models and love to advertise "barely legal." And there are a lot of them in online dating. They target people who might be smitten by a pretty face and have money. That would be men who are 40+ and at 50, a lot are at the peak of their careers and making the more money than they ever have.
Food for thought.
I think you're absolutely right, especially in view of the fact that it was a free site that ran the study. (An obvious hint about "fishing" was posted earlier in the thread, to identify the site.) This is a super-cautionary tale about believing "science" that comes from OLD site analytics.
Pure speculation on my part, but I am willing to bet a lot of those 18-year-olds are bots/have scammers on the other end of the keyboard. I say this from what I experienced in my online dating days (years ago).
Which brings me to this:
If what I suspect is correct, and most of those 18-year-olds and such are scammers, they will be contacting delusional men and that includes 50-year-old men. Scammers pick pictures of models or near models and love to advertise "barely legal." And there are a lot of them in online dating. They target people who might be smitten by a pretty face and have money. That would be men who are 40+ and at 50, a lot are at the peak of their careers and making the more money than they ever have.
Food for thought.
Wow, good points. Also, bots will, overall, be WAY hotter than the average perwon, hence they will draw the eye.
Hate to break it to you guys, but my 16 year old son has told me that tons of kids in his high school are using OLD sites, just lying about their ages. It is becoming downright common. He created a profile himself at one point to see what it was like, I yelled at him for it but he said he'd already deleted it (I effing hope so.) Of course...he LOOKS like a kid, so I can't imagine he would get much luck connecting with anybody there. He sure can't pass for 50.
Might wanna check ID if you date the young 'uns. Just saying.
Hate to break it to you guys, but my 16 year old son has told me that tons of kids in his high school are using OLD sites, just lying about their ages. It is becoming downright common. He created a profile himself at one point to see what it was like, I yelled at him for it but he said he'd already deleted it (I effing hope so.) Of course...he LOOKS like a kid, so I can't imagine he would get much luck connecting with anybody there. He sure can't pass for 50.
Might wanna check ID if you date the young 'uns. Just saying.
Okay. (shrug) I know none, have two teenagers here. And three early 20something nieces/nephews. Also a circle of "due in Julys" - we have known eachother since we were all pregnant years ago, their non special-needs, dating kids are now 15 or about to turn 15 - we are a group of 30 mothers from all over the country - and I am 100% sure none of them lie to get onto OLD either, or their older friends in school.
The kids are all just hooked up with one another and everybody's always at someone else's party, unless they're loners/more quiet.
You're not "breaking" anything to us. You're just presenting an unusual situation. Now kids lying to get into clubs or buy alcohol? THAT'S nothing unusual. Teens fighting to get onto OLD with the old grannies and grampas? No...I'm sorry. That may be a trend where you are, I won't discount your situation but it's unusual.
Hate to break it to you guys, but my 16 year old son has told me that tons of kids in his high school are using OLD sites, just lying about their ages. It is becoming downright common.
I can imagine more 16-18 y/o girls would use OLD in hopes of dating an older college-type guy just for the greater odds of him having a car or living on his own. Maybe even someone in his early twenties just because the male has more freedom and money which most high school guys their age don't have.
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Hate to break it to you guys, but my 16 year old son has told me that tons of kids in his high school are using OLD sites, just lying about their ages. It is becoming downright common. He created a profile himself at one point to see what it was like, I yelled at him for it but he said he'd already deleted it (I effing hope so.) Of course...he LOOKS like a kid, so I can't imagine he would get much luck connecting with anybody there. He sure can't pass for 50.
Might wanna check ID if you date the young 'uns. Just saying.
I would hope adults are already filtering out ages like that anyway. I don't even see people below 35.
I would hope adults are already filtering out ages like that anyway. I don't even see people below 35.
Woah, this reminded me of some of the guys I saw on POF back when I was doing online dating. I don't know if they have changed things since, but back then when you looked at a profile you would see all their filters at the bottom of the page. When I would see a guy pushing fifty, and his age filter was 18-35, I would literally laugh out loud and skip over him, even though I was in his age range. If an old coot actually thinks it's appropriate for him to date an 18 year old, we are so not compatible.
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