What Are You Hiding Behind That Profile?

Everyone knows that first impressions are important, whether it’s for a job interview, introducing yourself to the cute girl/boy at a party, or meeting your girlfriend’s parents. They matter. The online dating scene is no different. If you send over a creepy or illegible message, you probably won’t get a response.

Your profile is really your best chance at completely portraying yourself as accurately as possible. You have your profile photos, your basic info, your About Me section, a list of your activities, and an area to talk about your idea of a good first date. That’s quite a bit of information at someone’s disposal considering they’ve never even met you. But are they even going to click to view your profile if your initial message is something like these?

I call this guy Jaded Chicken...



I forgot that people still actually use these kind of pick up lines. These are so 10 years ago!

I've received this exact message from this guy AT LEAST a dozen times.

However, what if you get a decent message, see that they have a totally normal and acceptable profile, are you guaranteed to have found a sane person to converse with? NO! There are plenty of people who are really good at creating a totally normal profile and take the time to construct the perfect first message. The key is to keep the conversation going for a while to see if they’ll let any red flags slip through. Things tend to become less scripted once you get the conversation going. But sometimes, it doesn’t take very long for the creeper to shine through, such as in this case.

I like to call this the prime example of  “Well that escalated quickly…”

The following messages are just single initial messages from PoF users that I found to be pretty awesome:

Don't worry readers, you can be assured that I've asked this man for his references and will report back once I see if there's anything interesting to be found in them.

Thank you! I always wanted to be able to play the role of a Vegas show girl and cloistered Nun!

I braved conversing with this gentleman for a day or so and it only got weirder (shocking i know).

By the way, don't you all love my super professional photoshop skills in editing the usernames in each image? I thought so.

Alright, I hope you all enjoyed this week’s post. Sorry for the delay as it was supposed to be up around the end of last week. Let me know in the comments what theme you’d like me to tackle next. Here are some of the current ideas:

1)      The prettiest men of PoF (yes I said men. I may have found a few cross dressers/ just really feminine looking men)

2)      The Ballsiest of photos gallery

3)      Most awkward profile photos