Well, I haven't seen much new on the blogs I follow so I'm going to have to kill some time by writing another blog.
My modified online dating profile was successful and increased the number of responses. A woman that I originally started talking to on a different dating site, ChristianMingle.com, found my profile on the site I primarily use now which is PlentyOfFish.com. We started talking again and we are going to go out soon so I changed my headline to read, "Not Currently Looking." I have no desire to date more than one woman at once. I've been down that road and its confusing and not fair to anyone involved even if they say they are okay with it. Despite the headline I still get messages and this is an example of one of them which is fairly common.
Subject: "your awesome"
My awesome what? The subject alone I consider a fail.
Message: "hi there my name is jennifer. I am so impressed with your profile. i haved lived in Muskegon all my life and this town is hard to find a good thing in anymore. Good Luck in your search but i would love to chat with you sometime. im me at XXXXXXX. your sense of humor is good thing dont let anyone tell you differently. sorry i dont have a picture of my penis to send you. LOL"
I give her bonus points for her attempt at humor by referencing my joke in my profile about not responding to messages from women that include pictures of their penis. She really didn't expand on my joke at all but referencing it shows she actually read my profile. Granted there are a lot of online dating profiles that are full of grammical errors or TyPinG LikE tHIs but I took the time to use proper grammar and capitolization and such in writing my profile. I listed in my profile that I am looking for someone that is intelligent and intellectually stimulating. How much more time would it have taken for her to reread her message to me and at least try to write properly? Fail number two.
Out of curiousity I checked out her dating profile. It turns out that her daughter is much closer to my age then she is. I find shared life experiences are more important then age but I don't have any mommy issues either. Fail number three which adds up to an epic fail.
Am I picky when it comes to women? Extremely. Too picky? Perhaps, but I know what I want and what I don't want and I am happy being single. The girl that I'm currently interested in who I'm going out with soon does not live in the United States and I don't think I'll be able to make travel arrangements by this weekend so I probably won't be able to go for two weeks.
I post this blog with the assumption that the woman who wrote me this message will never read it. If you are the author of the message and read this please know that its not my intention to insult you and I hope you can perhaps find some constructive critism in it. That said, to anyone else I ask, is it inappropriate for me to post such a blog?
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Inappropriate? Well, I see a blog as a public diary of sorts. Say what you want. If you can stand the potential repercussions of your words, say it. If you think you can't, then don't. I think this post is fine.
ReplyDeleteAre you too picky? Nah, I guess not.
But, I remember my first time reading an e-mail from an actual person. I couldn't understand why she wrote everything in lowercase letters-- no caps. Drove me nuts.
Later, I learned that lots of people type without using caps on the Internet. She was a smart person and never did this in her school work or anything like that. But typing without using caps is just "easier" for some when online. That's just Internet culture, in my opinion.
Sometimes I feel silly trying to use caps and writing out common expressions. But, I guess I'm old school.
Maybe you shouldn't mark that second girl down as a fail just yet.
Just make sure that she really, honestly doesn't have a penis. Now if she really had a penis, THAT would be an epic fail.
Oh, that was all the same person. Two fails is still to many for me.
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