UvitaOProtterdam, South Holland Netherlands60 posts
Dear Members,
I would like to share my and my friends' experience about dating sites. According to it, men usually add some extra centimeters to their height, and ladies are not always honest about their weight and their age (to say nothing of putting 10-year old pictures on their profiles).
My question is - what for?
anyway it will be revealed during a real meeting and disappointment is not the best thing to feel when you meet a person for the first time .. Or is it more about some role playing, when you want to feel younger, taller, more beautiful , even virtually? Lie, game or self-deciept? Please revert !
i think some people do lie but i would hope that this is in the minority and as you say why lie when all will be revealed.A friend of mine fell into this trap and travelled from europe to australia to find out that he was a fake. A waste of time money and investment.
I would like to share my and my friends' experience about dating sites. According to it, men usually add some extra centimeters to their height, and ladies are not always honest about their weight and their age (to say nothing of putting 10-year old pictures on their profiles).
My question is - what for?
anyway it will be revealed during a real meeting and disappointment is not the best thing to feel when you meet a person for the first time .. Or is it more about some role playing, when you want to feel younger, taller, more beautiful , even virtually? Lie, game or self-deciept? Please revert !
I would like to share my and my friends' experience about dating sites. According to it, men usually add some extra centimeters to their height, and ladies are not always honest about their weight and their age (to say nothing of putting 10-year old pictures on their profiles).
My question is - what for?
anyway it will be revealed during a real meeting and disappointment is not the best thing to feel when you meet a person for the first time .. Or is it more about some role playing, when you want to feel younger, taller, more beautiful , even virtually? Lie, game or self-deciept? Please revert !
Sorry, but this fact isn’t obtained on a dating site but is well known in surveying practice: some variables – as height, weight, income, alcohol consumption etc. – do have a certain bias when self-reported. Bias depends on how a question is formulated and just reflects the double standards existing in a given society as individual dreams and plans. Nothing dramatic.
Why people lie? There was a thread on this forum for some time ago, you can check and find an answer on your question if you care. People do lie, it’s a part of human nature.
dawndeb: i think some people do lie but i would hope that this is in the minority and as you say why lie when all will be revealed.A friend of mine fell into this trap and travelled from europe to australia to find out that he was a fake. A waste of time money and investment.
If your friend didn’t draw any conclusion of that episode, then yes, it’s waste of time and money. But if she analyzed the situation and understood what she did wrong – then it’s an experience. An expensive one, sure, but experience is never for free.
Men from different countries contact me now and then, and I always ask them what wrong with the girl next door. And if I don’t get a satisfying answer, I don’t continue correspondence. There are women in Australia as well, and what makes him unattractive to the local women, makes him unattractive to all other women. You don’t have to be a psychologist, just use your common sense.
I would like to share my and my friends' experience about dating sites. According to it, men usually add some extra centimeters to their height, and ladies are not always honest about their weight and their age (to say nothing of putting 10-year old pictures on their profiles).
My question is - what for?
anyway it will be revealed during a real meeting and disappointment is not the best thing to feel when you meet a person for the first time .. Or is it more about some role playing, when you want to feel younger, taller, more beautiful , even virtually? Lie, game or self-deciept? Please revert !
totally agree ( what for ) why make yourself look and sound some-one you are not, be honest and then you wont be dissapointed when you meet
Kontikitactsilkeborg, Central Jutland Denmark797 posts
Uvita: Dear Members,
I would like to share my and my friends' experience about dating sites. According to it, men usually add some extra centimeters to their height, and ladies are not always honest about their weight and their age (to say nothing of putting 10-year old pictures on their profiles).
My question is - what for?
anyway it will be revealed during a real meeting and disappointment is not the best thing to feel when you meet a person for the first time .. Or is it more about some role playing, when you want to feel younger, taller, more beautiful , even virtually? Lie, game or self-deciept? Please revert !
Mirror mirror on the wall.... My profile states it as it is...photo less than a year old...possible senility setting in...but heh..how would I know ?
May 18, 2011 3:47 PM CST Men's and Women's lies in their profiles
serbianflowerArandjelovac, Central Serbia Serbia2 Posts
serbianflowerArandjelovac, Central Serbia Serbia2 posts
I agree with you, but greater problem is that lot of them pretand that they are honest, serious,but the relaity is that they try to make adventure only.
lifeisadreamMexi Go, Mexico State Mexico16,713 posts
lifeisadream: That is why I have a fragment of Spanish Literature in my profile. Otherwise I would have to say: I am very nicebossy with hot temperature ,........ooooooooooooooops
UvitaOProtterdam, South Holland Netherlands60 posts
Tulefel: Sorry, but this fact isn’t obtained on a dating site but is well known in surveying practice: some variables – as height, weight, income, alcohol consumption etc. – do have a certain bias when self-reported. Bias depends on how a question is formulated and just reflects the double standards existing in a given society as individual dreams and plans. Nothing dramatic.
Why people lie? There was a thread on this forum for some time ago, you can check and find an answer on your question if you care. People do lie, it’s a part of human nature.
it is not about its being dramatic , but again, about common sense .. age, height, weight - these are numbers, and with all double standards they remain the same ..Besides, this information is often optional, so every person has a chance not to mention it if not happy with it.
The point was to discuss the reason to build communication based on fake ideas.. and fake ideas are based on fake facts that a person presents about himself. Even if everybody knows the universal truth - be yourself, and you can be sure that there is a person in this world who likes you exactly as who you are. But give him / her the chance to see you !
I would like to share my and my friends' experience about dating sites. According to it, men usually add some extra centimeters to their height, and ladies are not always honest about their weight and their age (to say nothing of putting 10-year old pictures on their profiles).
My question is - what for?
anyway it will be revealed during a real meeting and disappointment is not the best thing to feel when you meet a person for the first time .. Or is it more about some role playing, when you want to feel younger, taller, more beautiful , even virtually? Lie, game or self-deciept? Please revert !
I would like to read more on this subject as i ve met a few women from this site that were nothing close to what they described, on my side i was more than what i wrote
Uvita: it is not about its being dramatic , but again, about common sense .. age, height, weight - these are numbers, and with all double standards they remain the same ..Besides, this information is often optional, so every person has a chance not to mention it if not happy with it.
The point was to discuss the reason to build communication based on fake ideas.. and fake ideas are based on fake facts that a person presents about himself. Even if everybody knows the universal truth - be yourself, and you can be sure that there is a person in this world who likes you exactly as who you are. But give him / her the chance to see you !
Different people here have different agenda. Some want to meet friends or find a romantic relationship. Some just spend their time in lack of something better to do (of different reasons). There are disturbed people as well. You can’t expect everyone to have the same preferences and behavior as yours.
taxidiotis: I would like to read more on this subject as i ve met a few women from this site that were nothing close to what they described, on my side i was more than what i wrote
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I would like to share my and my friends' experience about dating sites.
According to it, men usually add some extra centimeters to their height, and ladies are not always honest about their weight and their age (to say nothing of putting 10-year old pictures on their profiles).
My question is - what for?
anyway it will be revealed during a real meeting and disappointment is not the best thing to feel when you meet a person for the first time .. Or is it more about some role playing, when you want to feel younger, taller, more beautiful , even virtually? Lie, game or self-deciept? Please revert !