What Does Your Profile Try To Tell Us?
I’m sure most of us have viewed a few profiles while on dating sites. Sometimes we just scan it briefly or maybe only partially while other times we read it attentively. Sometimes you may read it even several times.What is it that makes you pay more attention to a specific profile? Was it the picture or was it some word(s) in there that captured your attention. Is it some special characteristic that you seek?
And most of all; what does your profile try to tell us. What is the single most important thing you try to convey when a person read your profile or do you think that a good looking picture is enough?
Greeting from a wet and windy Cape Town.
I have to nip out for a while. Should not be too long.
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I must admit that the blogs are about the only reason for my presence here.
This is one one thing I must say of CS, I have met some great people here
That is the problem. The profiles never tell us what we want to know because the writer of the profile try to tell us what he/she thinks we want to hear.
I'm not sure what my profile tries to state now,
I know it says i'm in a relationship and that i'm not looking, and only here for the blogs.
But that doesnt seem to stop all the pretty and not so pretty women from mailing me, as for me being here for the blogs, .....mmmmm some may say thats a lie as i dont seem to be writing many lately or commenting either.
As for my pictures, well i may have to have a word to my make up artist to see if we cant change some, but my pics i try to get to convey my current mood when blogging.
Anyway, have taken up to much space here now, people may think i'll be blogging again.
Oh! And also, I'm so gonna watch that movie but the only problem is...... after watching it, I might need to leave all the lights on when I go to bed
That story about the mother and the grandmother I got from my dad as well. My ex wife did not get inherit her mom's great figure but reverted to her grandmother.
I only get to realize now how very few profiles I have read during the last year. I used to make a point of looking at a profile when a new face popped up in the blogs, but have failed to do so for too long. I must get back to doing it.
So it is the pic. But then what about all the faceless? Do they never get any mail?
I remember my late brother and I visited an illegal nudist colony many years ago and when we refused to undress we were told to scoot off very fast. I wonder if it can be seen as a parallel if you want to look at other pics without showing your own?
Will it apply to people impersonating animals as well?
What is it that makes you pay more attention to a specific profile?
it depends on the person what s/he is seeking or not seeking. sure, we do not check every profile. but we do check those profiles which make us compel to do so. how? first we see picture/no picture and name. if those directly link to our disposition, then that compels us to check. for other case, we may check to know him/her better based on the person's any activity.
I particularly like what Ken has written - a real eye opener.
About the following:
<Two guy secrets passed to me by my Dad. Before marrying a woman, meet her mom or her grandma. Be aware in a few years the one you are interested in will also look like that. Be real sure about this.
2) Always look at the photos and ask yourself how you would feel waking up next to that person in the morning"???
As it happens, I was also given the same advice.
@Ken, do you think I should put a photo of my mother (still alive!), and my grandmother who died 10 years ago?
Now, the best way to know if you would like to wake up next to that person after making love to her/him all night?
.....Try it out and find out for yourself!
According to Ken and his lengthy descriptions of the "ideal" woman, I think I would maybe stand a good chance?
The only question is: Do you think he could be MY ideal partner?
Now you mentioned another thing that most people miss. The Name! Very important.
I think if the truth be known there are probably untruths in everyone's blogs!
Are you moving this weekend?
I was talking about dogs you silly cow!
Welcome back! You were gone for much too long. Please note that unauthorized leave will be recovered from your salary.
That mother/grandmother story works. My ex just follow the wrong body line.
I think you need to write another blog about people´s clarity.
What do they really want?
I remember writing some blog along those lines...
Well, I certainly lie by omission. There are things, like my income, that I just feel is not everybody's business. So I don't tell.
Would he be THAT interested in your profile.
Then we'll have to face the facts. So it is the picture that matters. Let's hope the picture don't lie.
If I divulge my income I will scare every living soul away. I'll NEVER get a date.
Then he will have to dig in his pocket to buy his CS family champagne and caviar.
Don´t worry my friend, I will date you, even if you are my last resort.
No you did not say but I can hear the banknotes creaking in your pokets when you walk.
Nobody can be that stupid.
If you are a bit strapped for cash I can help you to double your money. Fold it.
its a different thing that now they have this holier-than-attitude and think all others are fake
hypocrates!! shame on them.
I saw exactly that in a profile when I looked at a guy from Oz the other day. I wonder if he copied and pasted your profile.