Online dating- do you ever see a profile

[Bernadine]

that makes you want to send a message to the guy, but just to comment on something, not to ask him out?

Example 1- there's a guy with a hilarious profile picture. He's on a toilet, pants down, with a magazine covering his junk, and ridiculously giant headphones. It cracks me up everytime I see it, and sometimes I want to send him a message just to say hey, thanks for making me laugh.

Example 2- there's a super cute guy who lately has had headlines about his looks. He's seriously adorable and I want to message him and be like hey, you're cute, stop getting down on yourself.

Am I just weird or does this happen to anyone else? Please note- I'm not weird enough that I would actually send these messages, just weird enough that I want to, lol.

[doriswe]

I've done it....typically I get a "thanks" in response. I guess I'd like it if someone were to say something like that to me, even if they weren't interested per say.

[marigoldgirl]

I have done it and I have had a few sent to me.

[Bernadine]

Really? Ok, so maybe I'll do it. Do you say something like, hey, don't think we're a match, but your pic is really funny and always makes me laugh?

[doriswe]

I'd just be "I adore that picture!" or something really simple

[GilliC]

I actually sent a message to a girl on okcupid once because her screen name made me laugh. It was kind of awkward to write ("Hey, I hope this isn't too weird, and I'm not interested or anything, but...") but she replied and seemed amused that I understood the reference.

[Bernadine]

Well, this is a coincidence- I just got a random message from someone who saw me post on the forums, lol.

[blackkitty]

I mostly see pictures that I want to respond to with things like "Do you really think you are going to pick up a woman with a picture of you holding a machine gun?"

[tmonoxide]

YOu see some very interesting things on dating websites.

I saw:

A man who made fantastic lamps -- they were made of neon piping and some other item

A guy with 2 stunningly beautiful bloodhounds

A guy who was quite the world traveller -- his profile pics were works of art.

Comment away. One never knows; I was approached about my cartoon art by more than one person on Match.

[pigeonmol]

I saw a guy on OKC who had a cake in each of his pictures. I sent him a message to find out if it was just a running joke. Turns out they were each of his birthday cake his parents gave him for the past six years. We talked a little before other weird things about him came out. It is a great way to spark a convo and not only would it up the confidence of the guy, it may just do the same for you.

[Bernadine]

May 29, 2012 16:34:03 GMT -5 @blackkitty said:

I mostly see pictures that I want to respond to with things like "Do you really think you are going to pick up a woman with a picture of you holding a machine gun?"

Well, yeah, there are definitely these too, lol.

[melmo1122]

I had in my profile that I liked to ski but I haven't been able to in the last few years due to knee surgery.

I got a message from someone asking what was wrong with my knee and what kind of surgery did I have and if it worked because he was having knee problems too.

I wasn't going to reply because I was thinking of all the things in my profile, this is what he comments on.

But I took a chance and now we have been together for 5 months and I knew on the first date that I was going to marry this guy. So you never know!