Fellow online daters

[studytime45]

I never heard that excuse, mostly because messages from members without photos were usually "I will make you scream baby, give me a chance" etc... or I didn't respond to them.

Weird. My first thought was "they are fugly" and not "they are married". That makes sense, though.

[cleo29]

I didn't get that too often and if I did,  I would not go long without getting one in a private email or something.


I did have a guy who always mentioned how much he looked like Robert DeNiro harass me for a while.  I had to block him twice and then he wrote to me AGAIN and mentioned how he couldn't wait to come by my house and see me. Then, i got scared. Nothing came of it but what a freaking weirdo.

[W.T.Faulkner]

May 18, 2013 19:07:46 GMT -5 studytime45 said:

I never heard that excuse, mostly because messages from members without photos were usually "I will make you scream baby, give me a chance" etc... or I didn't respond to them.

This was my experience as well.  

[Deleted]

Yeah no, married/in a relationship. Even ugly guys will try to post semi decent (they think) photos of themselves because they're desperate.

[LeggsBenedict]

May 18, 2013 19:07:46 GMT -5 studytime45 said:

I never heard that excuse, mostly because messages from members without photos were usually "I will make you scream baby, give me a chance" etc... or I didn't respond to them.

Weird. My first thought was "they are fugly" and not "they are married". That makes sense, though.

"They want to murder me," is usually my first reaction to everything.

[Gato]

May 18, 2013 19:38:42 GMT -5 HRH Queen Dick I, Orphan said:

I first did the Personals in 1992 B.I. thats Before the Internet. You answered an ad in the paper by leaving a VM to the persons private mailbox

It still worked that way even in 2000. Even though I suppose we could have exchanged pictures, I never answered an ad with a pic, nor was it expected, even if we went to email.  It was kind of exciting to meet without knowing what the guy looked like.  Always a surprise: some bad, but some very, very good.

[cleo29]

May 18, 2013 20:56:05 GMT -5 Que? said:

May 18, 2013 19:08:44 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

I didn't get that too often and if I did,  I would not go long without getting one in a private email or something.


I did have a guy who always mentioned how much he looked like Robert DeNiro harass me for a while.  I had to block him twice and then he wrote to me AGAIN and mentioned how he couldn't wait to come by my house and see me. Then, i got scared. Nothing came of it but what a freaking weirdo.

Did you meet your H online?

I'm dating online vicariously through my SIL. I get screenshots of some random and ridiculous shit. Then, someone looks good on paper, they seem legit and then BAM, crazy talk.

I did! I believe my exact words when I first saw his picture, after reading a great email, was 'Yowza!'. lol

[BunnyMacDougal]

I never heard that excuse either, but I did not have anything to do with a guy sans photo. No exceptions.  lol.

[cleo29]

May 18, 2013 21:24:10 GMT -5 Que? said:

May 18, 2013 21:16:22 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

I did! I believe my exact words when I first saw his picture, after reading a great email, was 'Yowza!'. lol

No shit, he's hot!!

This gives me hope for my SIL. She's starting to wonder of there are any normal ones.

I definitely met some nutters, but I also met some really nice, funny, got-their-shit-together guys who for one reason or another, it just didn't pan out for us. I think you just have to keep putting yourself out there and I mean that IRL and doing online dating.

I used to got to bars and some club type places by myself. Generally, I went to places where I either knew people who worked there or wanted to see a band I knew I liked and I always had the story that I was supposed to be meeting friends. 1) I felt good not just sitting around alone on a Friday/Saturday night and 2) I met some great guys that way.

So you just keep trying, keeping a positive outlook and it will happen. Oh, I don't know where she lives, but there was a young professionals group that I joined that did events like a dinner out where you are assigned to a certain table and see if you click with someone to fun activities and trips for professional singles. It was fun!

[Deleted]

I tried online dating 10 years ago. On day 2, I got a message from my office building's creepy.as.fuck janitor. I deleted everything and never went back for more.