Observations I've had while Online Dating

My friend EvilTwin and I are both online daters. SO who better than to ask for a males two cents.
My side notes are in Blue, all EvilTwin's are in Red.

Things We've learned and observed while viewing online suitors.

If you put “does not do drugs” then tell us you’re 420 friendly, guess what? That’s still doing drugs!

If you’re bald, do NOT put what your hair colour WAS!
It doesn’t matter and 80% of women do not care. Wearing a hat in all your pictures is also a solid tip off you’re bald.

No one wants to see 1 picture of you and 10 of your pet.
ET: I want to add to this: 1 of you/10 of scenery or parents. Or: all your pics contain you and 5 friends so nobody can tell who you are.

What is with the half naked bathroom shots? Seriously?
If you’re going to be half naked at least be on a boat, at the beach, rock climbing, SOMETHING! Being half naked in any pic will get our attention, but it wont keep it.

ET: From a guy's point of view: seeing half naked bathroom shots/cleavage shots ALWAYS work for us. As long as the girl isn't a total train wreck.


Too many webcams shots.
Says to me, you have no friends that could take a picture of you outside the house.

ET: Too many webcam shots, all in the same position, same outfit=lazy ass and you never get away from your computer.

Using pictures that are more than 5 years old and not dated..
Get new ones. A lot can happen in those years.

If you’re over the age of 18 Do Not use your high school pictures…
tells me you have a peter pan complex

Messages us and jumping right into talking about sexual preferences. deleted/blocked!!!!
You’re not 16 get over it already.

ET: If the girl who started talking to me like that and she was hot, oh ya, she'd be my new fav!!

Has “does not smoke” but have pictures up with cigarettes in your mouth or hands….. we’re not stupid

Putting your body type as “average or athletic” when you have no neck, or haven’t seen your feet in a while. Ugh. You’re in denial. If you tell us those pictures are old, GET NEW ONES!

ET: Gotta firmly agree with this one!!


Using pictures that are NOT YOU!
This one I love. One guy msg’d me, and the pic looked really familiar to me. When we started chatting on msn, I asked him how old the picture was, he said it was a few years ago and didn’t look anything like that at all anymore (misleading ya think?)
No shit. When I figured it out, he had used a picture of a friend of mine from an old fan site. I sent him a note and the original un-cropped picture with ME IN IT!!! He deleted and blocked me. But not before I reported his profile.

If you’re 5’8, you are not 5’10 or 6’0 we’ll see that when we meet you.
(recently had a guy tell me he was 5’5, I’m 5’2 and he was shorter than me) FML.

If you’re posing in front of a nice car or boat and NOT in IT, it’s not yours!
Do not try and pass it off as your own. Women are not stupid and we have more connections than you think.

Why lie about your age?
ET: I see way too many "mature" women trying to pass themselves off as being in their mid 20's, hahaha. We're not that stupid, especially when they look like over tanned and weathered alligator handbags. Did you ever see the old lady in "There's Something About Mary"? Ya, you know what I mean.

Have kids? DO NOT LIE ABOUT IT!
ET: OK, seriously? "Prefer Not To Say" is STILL saying yes.

puts “not single/not looking” = cheating on my spouse or am a swinger

looking for “friends” = ya right… on a dating site? How stupid do you think we are?

All women know “hang out” is the new code for booty call. Don’t play it like its not.
ET: I dunno, I tried this one for a bit and it didn't work. Noticeably however, I had a lot fewer emails during the "hang out" switch, lol.

Do not ask us anything you wouldn’t answer yourself.

Adding me to your favorites will not get me to msg you first.
I used to get a lot of these. It just goes to prove my theory that a lot of women are, unfortunately, attention whores. It's funny, when you don't respond to the fav add, they remove themselves after awhile.
This also applies to men I’ve blocked from sending me msg’s without pictures. Adding me will not make me ask you for one, just deleted.

Wearing a wife beater at anytime other than as an undershirt, UNDER A SHIRT will get you automatically deleted.

Finding, Losing, Gaining Love. & An Ode to the Women who give me strength.

A Bride In The Making, is one of the blogs I read on here.

And I must give Veronica, the author, much praise for writing what she did.
To admit defeat, being weak, desiring another man, wanting more for herself and making the sacrifices she made to get them. Looking out for No# 1 first! Not many women do.

End in heart ache and tears? Yes, of course.

Empowered her self being. Yes, I hope so.

Learned from her past relationship and learned about herself and her true needs, wants, desires? HELL YA!

This isn't anything any women I've ever met has not gone through before.
By a certain age, we've all had one great love that changes our core of existence for the rest of the world and our wants from the next person. A constant change. I don't think its ever the same twice.

Life is always building character we didn't know we needed.
Or so I like to tell myself to prevent going crazy and becoming the next cat lady.

Another friend who is going through the spitting imagine of what Veronica is, has always been an amazing sound board for me.
She is always preaching Change Is Good! Embrace it.

I really like to know where she gets her strength from. Denial? Nah, she's too smart for that.
A secret memo that no one else gets? Maybe! A faith in love in general?? Who knows.
But she's truly amazing and I'm a better person for knowing her.
Learning from her experiences and going through my own.

In the past year, I woke up and after dating weenies after weenies and longing after the men I want, who were already taken. I learned I must put myself out there, up my standards etc.
Well I've started to do that and yet I'm more alone now than I was before.
But for the RIGHT reasons this time.

I'll just say thank you to all who before me have experienced heart ache, love lost and yet crave the next adventure. Shared your stories. You all inspire me.

There was a time not too long ago, where I had more male friends than women. I couldn't more happy that has changed. I have the most beautiful friends now, inside and out. Including those who I only read. Only see once in a blue moon, or who live too far to visit.
(Thank gawd for Skype and webcams)

They inspire me, my home, my life, my heart, my happiness.
Not only when they are happy, but when they are hurt, sad, doting, pondering, happy, giggling, dancing to only the music in their heads and do not care who can see them.

Okay this entry went sideways but you get the point.

I'll leave you with this.

Women are not meant to be understood, just admired....