I have just spent the last few hours, and the last few days, trolling through profiles on match.com/jdate/yahoo personals/okcupid/etc, and I have a few notes:
- Do I REALLY have to pay for these things? UGH.
- It does not make you more appealing when you post pictures of yourself with other women.
- I don’t get why you would specifically note power or money as a turn off; maybe you just mean that you don’t want someone who is really into these things, which is totally fine. But it sort of sounds like you would find them threatening, i.e. they would make you self-conscious about the size of your penis.
- Sometimes, the really earnest pictures of nice looking but obviously lame guys whose profiles I would never click on make me want to cry.
- Profile pictures men should avoid are ones where: their eyes are red; their faces/(bald) heads are shiny; they look like actor headshots; they look angry; they have soul patches, but that’s because they should not, in fact, have soul patches; they are in black and white or WORSE, sepia
- Other things to avoid: user names that use numbers/letters instead of full words (i.e. “gr8 guy 4 u”)
- Don’t tell me you are “just a normal, laid back guy, looking for a nice girl”. You may very well be, but that is boring and tells me nothing. Also, I am not nice.
- Don’t misspell words like “insightful” (“inciteful”); if you misspell obvious things like “great” (“gret”) that are clearly typos, I will be more forgiving
- Don’t say your date should be (only) “Caucasian”. Obviously, I am, so this shouldn’t affect me, but I am offended that you would not consider someone of a different race. You asshole.
