Internet Dating.....Who Has Done it?!

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i have skype so thats fine :p it's just emails i don't like, it takes me ages to think of what to write and then have to wait for replies whereas msn is instant.. you're either online or offline... or blocked :eek:

I know what you mean about the chatting on messenger thing :)
 
i have skype so thats fine :p it's just emails i don't like, it takes me ages to think of what to write and then have to wait for replies whereas msn is instant.. you're either online or offline... or blocked :eek:

I quite like email, it gives you time to write out a well-thought reply. In a similar vein, I think penfriends are becoming a thing of the past which is quite sad really.

I find I get a bit bored with MSN conversations sometimes, they can fizzle down to single word replies on occasion, and they are more suited to casual chatter IMO.

When people have MSN open, they are usually doing other stuff like browsing/chatting to other people/playing minesweeper/watching pr0n so it's unlikely that you'll get the same considered replies as you'd get via email.
 
You can read a fair bit about you just from that reply.

The last 2 pages have been discussing this, where people have said that replying to people who send a genuine, real response should get one back. If they read your profile and talk about it or some other thing that may be well written, reply back and be kind in turn.

If its "hai how are you" then why bother replying.

I seriously doubt MissC had 300 REAL genuine emails.

Feel free to keep skipping half the thread and posting about me me me, just don't expect us to give a **** about you too.

I actually have no idea what you're trying to get at.
So what if the last two pages have been discussing this? I am airing my opinion which I am entitled to and defending why people shouldn't need to reply.

I'm not sure what I skipped, why it matters and why you think it's all "me me me". Your reply seriously lacks any context and if anything, is close to non sequitar.

Maybe you can clear up the hostility you seem to be aiming towards me, hopefully this is just all a misunderstanding?

It's called courtesy; you should look it up, and start applying it.

It would be courteous not to assume I don't, you do not know me personally so don't know how overly nice I can be in fact.
I just don't think I need to do this on an online dating site, there are no unwritten rules or etiquettes to follow so to speak, I've had my lifes fare share of mistreatment so simple ignorance of not replying to someones message is really insignificant.

I also shouldn't need to explain, but will, that the last few times I replied was met with further attempts at keeping in contact with me, which I did not want, it also came to be that some people disliked I didn't want to persue anything with them and engaged with argumentative behaviour, from that day on I decided replying was utterly pointless and saves them time, as people have to me.
You also have no idea how many people that have contacted me are people that have dated my friends, Jersey is an incredibly small place and two people absolutely are morons of the humans species who did not deserve a reply.

There's a thing we say here along the line of, anyone you meet will know someone you know.
 
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There's a thing we say here along the line of, anyone you meet will know someone you know.

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This actually fact or just something you've randomly come up with? I think you're trying to aruge now.

Hither.

I would also like to quote this bit:
What I do see from this thread is that for a portion of people it is no wonder why they are single

Why, ambassador, with this oh-so-date-able default presumption of people randomly inventing things to start arguments you are spoiling us.
 
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I've sent 3 messages out today, all very relevant to their profile etc and if I get *read* *delete* from them then I officially give up as I will take it that im uglier than I first thought and my profile is bobbins! :(

Here is my profile to see what I could improve?
http://www.plentyoffish.com/viewprofile.aspx?profile_id=19915064

I wouldn't say you were ugly, I'd have thought you'd do quite well with the ladies given the pics (apart from the colourful shorts one lol)

As for profile I'd expand on it a bit, seems a bit brief and not much effort. talk more about the types of food/films you like. Do you do any other activities, things you enjoy doing, sports etc, fave holiday destinations. Drop the emo reference, best to avoid negativity. You don't say anything about the kind of person you are either, from your pics it looks like you enjoy friends and a friendly person, something to talk about there.

And your looking for is set to 'Hang Out', from a female view they're normally looking for dating I imagine.
 
I wouldn't say you were ugly, I'd have thought you'd do quite well with the ladies given the pics (apart from the colourful shorts one lol)

As for profile I'd expand on it a bit, seems a bit brief and not much effort. talk more about the types of food/films you like. Do you do any other activities, things you enjoy doing, sports etc, fave holiday destinations. Drop the emo reference, best to avoid negativity. You don't say anything about the kind of person you are either, from your pics it looks like you enjoy friends and a friendly person, something to talk about there.

And your looking for is set to 'Hang Out', from a female view they're normally looking for dating I imagine.

There's some good comments there Matt thanks. I think i'll go and expand it as you say, im just not great with trying to big myself up :rolleyes:

And I didnt notice the hangout that I had set either, right time for a revision of my profile! :cool:
 
Yeah, you aren't a bad looking chap at all, though it wouldn't surprise me (going on some of the picky femmes I know) if your height came in to play :(
 
Yeah, you aren't a bad looking chap at all, though it wouldn't surprise me (going on some of the picky femmes I know) if your height came in to play :(

Yeah I thought that too but there's not a great deal I could do about that - Unless platfroms came back into fashion ;)

And i've updated it now to add a bit more about me, I think that it's readable and says a lot about me but we shall see :)
 
I've sent 3 messages out today, all very relevant to their profile etc and if I get *read* *delete* from them then I officially give up as I will take it that im uglier than I first thought and my profile is bobbins! :(

Here is my profile to see what I could improve?
http://www.plentyoffish.com/viewprofile.aspx?profile_id=19915064

In addition to what the other guys have said I'd put the the football reference further down the list. The amount of women who love the fact I'm not into football is crazy!

and remove the bit about spending most of your time of facebook.
 
In addition to what the other guys have said I'd put the the football reference further down the list. The amount of women who love the fact I'm not into football is crazy!

and remove the bit about spending most of your time of facebook.

Taken into consideration and updated accordingly :) Lets see what happens? Probably nothing ha ha ha!
 
Taken into consideration and updated accordingly :) Lets see what happens? Probably nothing ha ha ha!

If you don't mind me being a little more critical I'd ditch all but pics 2,6 and 7.

1 Doesn't do you any favours with all your tall mates.
3 Could be taken the wrong way (you both look very happy ;) )
4 Not sure what's going on there
5 If someone else had taken the photo it would be cool but self-taken-phone-pics aren't great IMHO

I'd also mention more about who you're looking for.

I may not be great at chatting women up but creating half decent profiles seems to be something I'm good at. I managed to get a 5'3 ginger work mate hooked up with a woman he's now marrying!
 
If you don't mind me being a little more critical I'd ditch all but pics 2,6 and 7.

1 Doesn't do you any favours with all your tall mates.
3 Could be taken the wrong way (you both look very happy ;) )
4 Not sure what's going on there
5 If someone else had taken the photo it would be cool but self-taken-phone-pics aren't great IMHO

I'd also mention more about who you're looking for.

I may not be great at chatting women up but creating half decent profiles seems to be something I'm good at. I managed to get a 5'3 ginger work mate hooked up with a woman he's now marrying!

ha ha ha I suppose you are right with picture 1 but the guy to the right is 6 foot 9 and the guy on the left 6 foot 5 so I suppose it doesnt do anyone any favours?
I've just deleted number 4 as it is pretty random!

Ill have to think on what i'm looking for because I dont really know, the last date I went on was with this girl who was nice and everything but she was very forward and I couldnt be bothered with that?
 
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