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

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I reckon your photo makes a hell of a difference. If you can make yourself look cool somehow go for it.

I put a pair of raybans on once and I was getting all kinds of flange saying I was hot lol
 
Fireskull said:
How do you let down the munters? dont reply or just say sorry not my type?
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Generally, I ignore, there's a disclaimer on the bottom of my profile telling them as such. :p

However if I'm interested to an extent but something puts me off (kids mainly) I'll tend to let them know I'm not interested in dating someone with children.
 
Holliday said:
Deleted my PoF profile month a go or so after 5 number closes but no dates. Went on a volunteer holiday last week and met a pretty awesome girl, we spent loads of time together during the week and will have some unforgettable memories, felt as though we'd known each other for ages. In that time on PoF I would have probably sent a dozen texts and tried to set up a date to no avail!

So, Real Life-1 PoF-0.
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Maybe that was your problem (and others it seems) taking it too seriously! Real life doesn't have to stop just because you're on pof!
Do all the normal things you'd do to try and get some pasty, but go on pof a few times a week as well. Anything you do to increase your chances of meeting someone is a bonus.
 
Teknobry said:
Maybe that was your problem (and others it seems) taking it too seriously! Real life doesn't have to stop just because you're on pof!
Do all the normal things you'd do to try and get some pasty, but go on pof a few times a week as well. Anything you do to increase your chances of meeting someone is a bonus.
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I work evenings and my mates don't really go to town so I'm pretty restricted in any social hobbies or nights out.

I wasn't taking it seriously really, just wanted to see what it was all about. In hindsight I found it quite tiresome and fake. Everyone on there tries their hardest to appear interesting and perfect, 'Haw haw look at this photo of me wearing funny glasses, surrounded by tons of women! This is just an ordinary day for me, ya'rly!'

Then of course the ladies on there. Ignoring the munters, you have the time-waster attention whores, who upload 8 or so photos and have no intention of going on dates. The one word repliers, who think they can rely on their face instead of conversational skills. The ones who do give you their number but don't agree on a specific date to go out, because meeting people in real life is scary business! Then of course those who forget they're on a dating sight themselves, and think they should put no effort in because they are the ultimate prize after all!

On the bright side, it makes meeting people in real life a lot less difficult and a lot more fun!
 
Kerplunk said:
I had a random girl message me yesterday, and she hasnt stopped talking to me since, she gave me her mobile number about 3 times in this time lol. I havnt text her so she doesnt have my number.

Every time she says she is going offline, I get another message to say "heres my mobile number" (again)! lol

I'm not sure if she is a mental maniac or is genuinely interested.... any tips? But I am getting signals that she may be a bit mad! She seems wayyyy too talkative too, like she will go on and on and on like im her best friend or something...is she needy/desperate?
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Do what I've done and get yourself a cheap Sim card with a number you can give out to internet dates. Once you've seen/spoken to them and satisfied that they're pretty sane, move them over to your normal number.
 
Richdog said:
Eek. Best advice I can give if that's how you react under pressure around women is to:

a) Have a 5-knuckle-shuffle before you go out, it will calm you and take away the excess omgwantsexnow chemicals that make people edgy when they meet a sexy woman for the first time.

b) Be slightly reserved in how you act. By that I don't mean withdrawn and quiet, I just mean try and talk in controlled and even tones, laugh without cackling, and smile without grinning like a loon. That may seem like i'm asking you to not act natural, but if your natural instinct around women is to act like a loon, then this isn't always going to be a winning combo when you meet a woman for the first time. Behaviour can be corrected and calmed, so don't fret and just go easy until the nerves ease, even if that takes a date or two.

It'll take a while but you'll start to act more normal after enough dates.
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Cheers for the info Rich, I've always been incredibly timid in front of girls. Friends giving me all sorts of crap advice doesn't help either, I work well under pressure any way so who know's haha.
 
GordyR said:
Is monopoly some new slang word for 'hide the sausage' that has passed me by? :confused:
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Nope. But some years ago a girl I was friends with asked me once if she wanted me to come to her house to play Draughts - I thought WTF but after talking to my mate who'd dated her a year or so before soon told me what she meant :D ;)
 
regulus said:
Do what I've done and get yourself a cheap Sim card with a number you can give out to internet dates. Once you've seen/spoken to them and satisfied that they're pretty sane, move them over to your normal number.
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Shes starting to get ratty now and I havnt even done anything lol, I stil not text her and I got 2 more messages last night sayin "oi, talk to me!!" and then "fine, i give up!"

Wtf? :rolleyes:
 
I've lined up my last date before I sack PoF off. It's time for another break from the madness. Overall since I last took a break just before christmas I've been on around 10 dates but only one started to lead somewhere however she started getting all clingy and paranoid after around date 5 so I stopped seeing her.

If tonights date doesn't lead to anything I'll probably come back to PoF in a couple of Months.
 
Met my 'ex' via beautifulpeople.com, we lasted just over a year. Lovely girl but I just never fell in love with her so it wasn't meant to be.

Then spent around 2-3 months with an Australian air hostess whom I met and got to know in real life. Turned out to be a fruit loop. I left work late one evening only to find her leaning against my car in a long coat with just underwear on underneath. As nice as you may think that seems it gives you an insight in to her creepiness/stalkerness once I started to distance myself from her.

Then met my current girlfriend via Facebook. And she's an absolute stunner, perfect 10. And probably one of only two women in my life that I would describe as 'sane'.

Morale of the story - Internet Dating can mean success. In fact i've met better women on line than in Real life most of the time.
 
GordyR said:
Then spent around 2-3 months with an Australian air hostess whom I met and got to know in real life. Turned out to be a fruit loop. I left work late one evening only to find her leaning against my car in a long coat with just underwear on underneath. As nice as you may think that seems it gives you an insight in to her creepiness/stalkerness once I started to distance myself from her.
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She met you from work wearing sexy underwear and a long coat? You got rid of her why? I'm not seeing the problem!

Davepen said:
Sounds like a nutjob Kerplunk!
Stay well away!
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Or don't. It could be fun. ;)
I kid. Definitely stay well away from that one.
 
unKn0wn said:
She met you from work wearing sexy underwear and a long coat? You got rid of her why? I'm not seeing the problem!
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I didn't get rid of her for that reason. Firstly, we hadn't even kissed at that point. I had known her for all of 4 hours (met in a pub near Stanstead airport the night before). Given the fact that she turned up at my work in this manner having only just met, I should have known better.

However, being the red blooded male that I am, based on her underwear/coat antics, I gave it a go with her. But as I said she turned out to be a complete lunatic. The signs were there from the beginning but I ignored them.
 
Gordy I used to know a girl that sounds like that.
Real nut job :/
Went on a few dates but then thought better of it, she then flipped out at a party because I wouldnt sleep with her and started stripping in the hall way shouting "why wont you **** me!!", much to the bemusement of the party guests! :S she was quite hot, but also a complete psychopath!
 
Davepen said:
Gordy I used to know a girl that sounds like that.
Real nut job :/
Went on a few dates but then thought better of it, she then flipped out at a party because I wouldnt sleep with her and started stripping in the hall way shouting "why wont you **** me!!", much to the bemusement of the party guests! :S she was quite hot, but also a complete psychopath!
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Indeed it's amazing how many young ladies seem to have a screw loose these days. When I broke it off with her she got her sister in Australia to keep ringing me at all times of night and even got her Dad to phone me... I'd been with the girl only a couple of months for christ sake.

I Kid you not... After I split with her she actually asked me if it would help if she got her sister involved with us in the bedroom. She actually offered to fly her over from Oz to have a threesome. :eek:

No amount of manpoints is worth being stuck with a nutjob.
 
Damn Gordy that must have been hard to turn down :/ but fair play!
I actually felt quite bad for the girl cause I openly called her a psycho in front of all her friends, and it turns out her mum has a history of mental illness :/ do'h
 
Davepen said:
Damn Gordy that must have been hard to turn down :/ but fair play!
I actually felt quite bad for the girl cause I openly called her a psycho in front of all her friends, and it turns out her mum has a history of mental illness :/ do'h
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To be honest mate by that point I was so freaked out by her antics I just wanted her out of my life.

There's no smoke without fire, your girl clearly inherited those traits. :(:(
 
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