Social Experiment : Online Dating

A mate down the road tells me he joined eharmony a while back, after answering a squillion profiling questions the site informed him that there were 400 (or so) matches in his area. In order to contact the matches, please remove your credit card from your wallet etc. etc. I met one of the matches this morning when I dropped in there on my way out this morning. No oil painting, and I'd rate it 5/10. She lives on the Gold Coast, not exactly what I'd call in the area, about an hour and a half north on the freeway.
There is one dating site that allows you to do it all for free. Plenty of Fish I did a search in my local area, just to see who was on it.......nothing there that would take my fancy.

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I met my other half on a site like this but it was all free. I think that particular site was supported by ads.

Isn’t it funny how most womens' personal “w4m” ads are like checklists of requirements?

These women think finding a guy is like ordering a sandwich: – a little more height please, easy on the love of sports, and can you throw in a weekend house in the mountains and a willingness to support some other guy’s children??

If men wrote their “m4w” ads the in same way, we might expect to see something like this:

“I am looking to meet the woman of my dreams, someone who appreciates me for who I am. I love big screen TVs, big trucks, baseball caps and bear hunting.

I love going out with my friends to get drunk at strip clubs too. I’m looking for a nice woman who is not looking to jump into a relationship to soon, but who knows what it means to be sexy and take care of her partner. Please no “BBW”s (sorry) but you won’t look good on my arm when I wear a white T –shirt.

You must love dogs and my beer can collection. My dogs, my beer cans and I are a package and we come together, so if you are not into them, please move on. I like to let all 6 of my dogs sleep in my bed with me. So hopefully you won’t have a problem with that.


Deal breakers:

- likes to shop too much
- obsessed with height (I am short)
- fat
- talks about herself too much
- neediness
- always wanting to talk about the relationship
- small breasts (sorry, there is nothing sexier than grabbing onto a nice big, firm, set)
- doesn’t like to cook for her man
- bossiness
- nagging
- always demanding to know where I am going and with who
- fat
- unpleasant body odor
- intolerance of me and my habits
- bitchiness during her menstrual period
- pressure to have kids

Turn-ons:

- thin and athletic
- large, firm breasts (very sexy)
- quiet
- beer drinker
- has her own friends and won’t try to make me watch “chick-flicks”
- smells really good
- unlimited appetite for sex
- likes hockey and football
- doesn’t expect me to pay all the time
- intelligent, but not too intelligent ( I do not like nerdy girls or wasting my time with intellectual arguments)
- rich father
- thin and athletic
- does not have a “relationship calendar”, i.e.: after 3 months she is not obsessed in figuring out if we are going in the “right direction”.

Can you find a woman who fits this description???? (stolen from GLP)

I have seen some pretty strange profile names too, like...readytotrust. Makes you wonder how much baggage comes with the package.

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readytotrust is a total bitch, be careful with her

I LOL'D....really.
Still....I've always said, why buy a book when you can join the library!

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Most things with women and online dating are not what you would think. In fact, many things work completely opposite than you would find obvious or reasonable.

Hot women seem like they are in relationships all the time. However, they aren't really in a relationship. The vast majority of the guys they spend time with are just placeholders, or orbiters, if you will. The girls don't take them seriously, nor do they respect them, and very often the guys aren't getting any.

Very few guys have the balls to even approach a super hottie, let alone talk to her, or be normal in her presence. From her point of view, being with somebody friday evening that is just mildly entertaining, and/or willing to pay for her amusement (think movie/dinner dates!), is better than being bored alone. But they ARE bored with these guys. They want someone that will stand up to them, that they can respect, that will bring out the little insecure girl, that finds comfort in the warm embrace of daddy. Most guys just can't, and those that can often know it, and that brings a whole lot of other problems into the mix.

With the pickings being so slim offline, hot girls often feel like they HAVE to resort to online dating. Many DO have profiles. For chicks online dating is not without problems either. While in the offline world, making an approach in public takes balls, that is completely reversed online. Even ugly girls get hammered 24/7, by tanned guys with washboard abs and large members. Guys like that would not give these chicks the time of day in a public setting like a bar, but because it is anonymous and risk free, they would rather go for the fugly than risk the fist for weekend entertainment.

I know a few guys who have set up fake girl profiles. You would not believe the kind of crap girls have to wade through online. Promises of eternal love, c@ck shots, poems and the like flows in a constant stream to the inbox. A lot of guys reek of creepyness. If you don't know how to portray yourself as something very very different, you will drown in the 30+ emails a day she gets.

She will look at the 150-200 messages that came in during the week and cherry pick the best. And even IF you do manage to get through, if she has 6 months or more of online experience, all that attention from hot guys worshipping her, has most likely turned her into a monster of an entitlement princess.

So ironically online dating actually takes MORE skill for guys to have succes, than regular approaches at a club or a bar. Probably the MOST ironic thing, is that if you post a profile like mortal suggested, you are probably very likely to get several positive replies, from girls browsing you. But that is a completely different story.

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The Dating Site Dictionary for decoding the ads.

WOMEN'S ADS

40-ish....................................49
Adventurer.............................Slept with all your friends
Athletic..................................No tits
Average looking......................Has a face like a basset hound
Beautiful................................Pathological liar
Contagious Smile....................Does a lot of Ecstasy
Educated..........................Banged her Political Science professor
Emotionally Secure.................Medicated
Feminist..................................Fat ballbuster
Free spirit...............................Junkie
Friendship first................Trying to live down reputation as a slut
Fun......................................Annoying
Gentle...................................Comatose
Good Listener........................Borderline Autistic
New-Age...............................All body hair, all the time
Old-fashioned.......Lights out, missionary position only, no BJs
Open-minded..........................Desperate
Outgoing................................Loud and Embarrassing
Passionate..............................Sloppy drunk
Poet.......................................Depressive Schizophrenic
Professional............................Certified C***
Redhead.................................Bad dye-job
Reubenesque...........................Grossly Fat
Romantic................................Looks better by candle light
Social.......Has been passed around like an hors d'oeuvres tray
Voluptuous.............................Very Fat
Height/weight proportional.......Hugely Fat
Wants Soulmate......................Stalker
Widow................................Drove first husband to shoot himself
Young at heart. .......................Old bat

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This thread makes for good laughs...

Fun......................................Annoying

Amen to that!

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My girlfriend and I came to meet by accident, through google, well, via google, to myspace. True story. I was searching fancy dress outfit ideas for me for a friends birthday night out, but when you type into text thats already there it gives you a weird hybrid search. I think it was something like 'Beach Hut Architecture' but I started typing 'Superman'. Clicky click and the search results for 'BeachhHsupermanUTarchitecturecostume' came out with a load of small and weird images that made no sense.

And then a series of three or four random body parts that clearly belonged to someone, a girl, in a superwoman costume. At the end of the top line was one of this girl doing quite a hillarious pose like some sort of spidermonkey eating strong vinegar. It was about 2am and I was a bit bored of my uni work, and this made me laugh.

Clicked the picture to see it bigger, and it vanished, obviously some cached old myspace pic. Same girl there, doing another funny pose and weird face, so I just sent a message saying thanks for making me laugh for no reason, you made my night, type 'BeachhHsupermanUTarchitecturecostume' and you randomly and unexpectedly come up in my coursework search lol thankyou! x'.

She added me, was freaked out, no surprises, no other messages haha but nothing came after that. About 6 months later she was going through her myspace people deleting the shitty bands that you all end up joining, and saw a ridiculous photo of me wearing a peruvian hat doing a weird pose of my own on some freezing cold french beach.

A few messages in between, countless hours blown on msn, some hillarious re-enactments of the supergirl poses on webcam and that was it. We met up and have been together for 3 years. Kinda weird when I write it out, weirder when people ask us haha.


Jenson drives it like he owns it; Lewis drives it like he stole it

Aaaah romance, gotta love it. You had better send her the link to this thread.

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If my ego wasn't very big, and if I didn't have already a girlfriend, I'd put myself on Ebay.

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Some say... he's even smaller than 20kb.
And some say... he's so offensive he could get you into trouble...
The only thing we know is that he's called...

THE SIG


Felipe Massa, World Champion 15:34:11pm- 15:34:21pm.

The dictionary for decoding men's personal ads


Man………………………………..Slut
Photos…………………………….Anticipate duplicity, usually of subject 10, 15, 20 years ago
29…………………………………..40 but thinks he looks 29
30’s....................................45 in search of an 18 year old
35.......................................45 dyes his hair
40.......................................60 dyes his hair, has penile implant
40’s....................................55 slut
Adventurous......................Gets up in the morning, sleeps with anyone or anything
A Few Extra Pounds..........Waddles, looks very pregnant
Athletic..............................Walks up the stairs, but only if the elevator is broken
Average looking.................Fat, looks 4 to 9 months pregnant
Divorced.............................For good reason: shallow, self absorbed SOB
Handsome.........................Shallow & self absorbed, uses photo that is 20 years old
Emotionally Secure............On medication
Financially Secure..............Cheap
Free spirit..........................Takes the bus, lives in a shoe box, sleeps on a bare mattress on the floor
Friendship first...................Emotionally insecure, penile challenged
Gentleman.........................Penile challenged, minute man, lies about age
Intelligent..........................High school drop out
New-Age............................Feminine
Old-fashioned....................Hates women
Open-minded.....................Slut, will have sex with anyone or thing
Oral....................................Penile challenged, minute man
Outgoing............................Loud and Embarrassing slut
Professional.......................Shallow **stard
Single.................................Married and sleazing
Separated..........................What the wife doesn’t know won’t hurt her
Slim....................................In denial, horny liar
Staminia.............................On Viagara or cilis
Stocky................................Very Fat horny liar
Tall.....................................Slut, arrogant
Large frame.......................Hugely Fat horny liar
Long Time Single...............Gay and in denial or Penile challenged or Minute Man
Wants Soul mate...............Horny liar

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interesting, I actually know at least 3 people who found love through dating sites, 1 of them got married, 1 had 2 year relationship and the other a few moths. The point is, it works and they managed to hook not bad looking women either.

That really depends on what your definition of "it works" is. If you are scared to be alone for the rest of your life, then yes it works. Beggars can't be choosy. But ultimately, I think most guys dream of something more than just "not bad looking women".

How about a girl that pops in at your workplace to give you a back rub, after she went to a library 12 miles away to borrow a bunch of books that you wanted? If she at the same time is hot, ready to pay to take you on vacation, and is 2/3s your age, then I think you might have something really nice going for you.

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i SORTA met my GF through facebook, We went to school together but never spoke or had much to do with each other, then feb last year i added her on Facebook, got to talking. and next thing i know im meeting her in person. 8 months later were still together and hardly apart

gin Wrote:
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> interesting, I actually know at least 3 people who
> found love through dating sites, 1 of them got
> married, 1 had 2 year relationship and the other a
> few moths.

"We met online, and now we have three lovely moths." :D

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+ 1 on Morbid's entire post up above. I put up a fake female profile on social network site before just to see what'd happen, pulled down some photos from an amateur pornsite of a fairly realistic young 'un in the pre-undressed part of her photoshoot. Made the whole thing pretty realistic looking. Got an insane amount of mail. Most was pretty puerile, there was a few just plain weird messages, made you reckon the senders weren't all there. And then there'd be one or two shy, decent messages from guys you reckoned were genuine lads who saw someone they liked the look of and just had a go at chatting them up.

Part 2 – Fake profiles and bogus members

As we explored last week, one of the ways that online dating sites ‘hook’ new members is to entice them in with the promise of hundreds upon hundreds of single, attractive people who are all dying to meet them.

Only a fool would believe that all of these profiles are real, however. We all know that there are a good number of fake “members” of these sites, and we bear that in mind when considering whether or not to take the plunge with online dating. But it isn’t always obvious as to the sheer number of different types of ‘fake’ profile. This week, I’ll be highlighting how to spot them. I can’t profess to guarantee 100% identification rates, but poking around online this week has certainly shown me some useful titbits of information.

Before we start; for the purposes of clarity, I will be using the following terms in the following way. ‘Fake’ refers to something which is completely fabricated. ‘Bogus’ refers to something which is real, but does not function in a genuine way.

For example, flying donkeys are ‘fake’. They only exist in the realm of the fantasy. Whereas a blind guide dog is ‘bogus’; the dog is real, and has a real occupation, but does not function in a way that is useful to anyone. In this article, I will be looking at four broad types of bogus profile:-

Type 1 – Bogus member, bogus profile (i.e. completely fake)
Type 2 – Bogus member, genuine profile
Type 3 – Genuine member, bogus profile (the biggest category!)
Type 4 – Genuine member, genuine profile (but used in a bogus way)

As I’m a stickler for legal issues, I’ll be mentioning them in relation to each type as I go along – but a full analysis of all the legal implications of their use in the public domain is something which deserves fuller coverage at a later time.

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Type 1 – Bogus member, bogus profile
The favourite bait for ‘The Hook’; these are fake profiles which are fabricated purely by the online dating site to use for advertising and enticing purposes. And they’re so popular because there are virtually no legal implications for using them! The people featured in the profiles aren’t truly registered members of the site, and the profiles are not written by them. The only real thing about them is the pictures used… generally, of attractive, young busty women in seductive poses.

“But hold on,” you may say, “If the pictures are real, how can the site use them legitimately?” And it’s a good question. But alas, it also has a good answer. There are two ways, that I’m aware of, that permit sites to use photos without recrimination. Firstly, aspiring models may willingly consent to have their photos used for promotional purposes, simply because it ‘gets their face out there’. These are easy to spot, because the photos will have been taken by a professional photographer. Anything that looks like it’s from a photo shoot, the chances are it’s probably fake.

The second way is rather more covert and worrying, and concerns a little-advertised piece of internet law which I learnt about during my studies at law school. It’s called the public domain liability waiver, and you can find it hidden in the small print of the Terms & Conditions of every single image hosting site on the internet. Rather alarmingly, however, it also appears in the T&C of major social networking sites such as Facebook.

The public domain liability waiver does exactly what it says on the tin. Any image that you post on such sites becomes the property of the “public domain”, and can legitimately be used by ANY third party for ANY purpose. Go on, read that sentence again. You sign your rights to privacy away as soon as you agree to the Terms & Conditions of participating sites. Bet you weren’t aware of that.

What this means, in a roundabout kinda way, is that online dating sites can legitimately steal your Facebook photos and use them in fake profiles. And although I can’t provide concrete proof of it, I strongly suspect that they do.


Type 2 – Bogus member, genuine profile
These are my favourite type, because they’re harmless to all but those who wish to contact them. These are real profiles, created by real people – but not by the person shown in the profile. A classic example is Pepe the Dwarf, my own creation; his profile is real enough, but Pepe is a fictional character created by me.

Other ‘Type 2’ profiles include men masquerading as women, women masquerading as men, older men masquerading as young men, etc. Some are easy to spot, such as Pepe, or women’s profiles that blatantly sound like they are written by blokes – but some can actually be pretty damn tricky to spot. The text in the profile might sound genuine enough… but was it really written by the person in the photo? Sometimes, the only way to find out is to mail them and see.


Type 3 – Genuine member, bogus profile
Right, now we’re into the nitty gritty of why online dating sites are such spectacularly difficult minefields to navigate. There are several different types within this category, but I’m going to start with the biggest culprits – the “cam girls”.

As you are probably aware, the internet contains several live webcam streaming sites, on which gyrating young girls take off their clothes in front of their webcam for a global, paying audience. <Ahem> At least, so I’ve been told. The streaming sites make a fortune from their horny paying customers, and the girls get a cut of the takings. It’s a lucrative online business, and reports suggest that the girls can make a fair part-time income from it.

No doubt, the more entrepreneurial cam girls will seek to advertise themselves wherever possible, and where better to post adverts of themselves than on dating sites, where lonely, horny guys will log on every day? In my research this week, I’ve come across a vast number of profiles (Oi, no pun intended there!) which seem to have been created for the sole purpose of inviting men to view live webcam streaming websites.

How to spot them? Well, easy enough. Is the girl in the profile picture in a state of semi-undress? Does the text mention webcams at all? Because let’s be honest – if you’re a girl signing up for an online dating site for genuine reasons, would the word “webcam” be ANYWEHRE NEAR your profile? I’m guessing no.

‘Type 3’ also includes those annoying profiles which have been created by genuine people who have no intention of actually making use of the site. People who were simply curious about how much interest they’d generate.

However, it also contains the MASSIVE category of people who have registered for the site but cannot use its functionality because they are not a paying member. As I highlighted in my last article, dating sites may have millions of registered members, but only a tiny fraction of them will have access to the core functions of the site, which become available after you have handed over your cash. If you are genuinely looking for love online, I’m sure this would be very frustrating. Worst of all, they’re usually impossible to spot – although partially-complete or vague profiles are probably strong candidates.

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