| Anyone notice the new feature, Want a date on Friday night?
Posted: 6/20/2009 9:30:19 AM | | I don't think that new feature is something for me. I prefer getting to know a person prior to meeting, seeing if there are any common interests or if we spark each other's interest enough to want to meet. To put myself on some list for random strangers to hook-up with me for a date on a whim would make me feel somewhat like an escort, I think. | |
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| Anyone notice the new feature, Want a date on Friday night?
Posted: 6/20/2009 11:38:55 AM |
jus a simple question for u jaqi,
did u email him strictly based on his looks or was there something more in his profile that caught your eye since it seems u were expecting a reply n mayb something more than email banter?
Well of course his profile pic caught my eye first because it was plain as plain that he looked after himself as he had a gorgeous bod. I checked out his profile and sure enough he was in to the gym and we had a few things in common. He was a little younger than me and may be it is just a simple thing of not being in to older women or may be he thought that my pics must be old ones who knows.
I never expect a reply from anyone I send a message to but reading the threads in 'ask a girl' most are from men complaining that women never reply to their messages ... I was just making a point that you fellas don't always reply either! | |
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| Anyone notice the new feature, Want a date on Friday night?
Posted: 6/20/2009 12:54:19 PM |
well let me ask you this jaqi,
there's a bigger question i'd ask but i'll keep it simple: what kind of overall success have you had on this site thus far?
Why are you so interested? I thought this forum was about the new feature.... this is digressing. | |
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| Anyone notice the new feature, Want a date on Friday night?
Posted: 6/24/2009 3:58:16 PM | Now I'm curious about something else. Rather than start a new thread, let me ask here....
Anyone notice that when you go to your favs page, there is between 1 and 3 little profile pictures that show up....consistantly...and can be clicked on? I have no idea what THAT is about, but the person on mine is a forum user, but he isn't even local??? I just added him to my favs so I could put him where he belongs...  So far they haven't replaced him and this is the second day.
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| Anyone notice the new feature, Want a date on Friday night?
Posted: 6/24/2009 7:05:46 PM |
Anyone notice that when you go to your favs page, there is between 1 and 3 little profile pictures that show up....consistantly...and can be clicked on? I have no idea what THAT is about, but the person on mine is a forum user, but he isn't even local??? I just added him to my favs so I could put him where he belongs... So far they haven't replaced him and this is the second day.
YES!! I was wondering about that! But the ones that keep popping up on my fav's page, ironically, are local, and ones I have had "contact" with!
What's up, POF? Secretly accepting bribes to "remind" someone of someone? | |
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| Anyone notice the new feature, Want a date on Friday night?
Posted: 6/24/2009 9:58:14 PM | | I'm thinking the Want a Date Friday Night is for people who would like to go out this Friday - but really haven't started the whole process yet with any particular person yet ... and is really saying "oh what the heck, lets just give it a try and see what happens". You know ... like hey "you're free, I'm free, maybe not perfect for each other, who knows, lets meet and just have fun". I certainly dont see this as a vehicle for a quicky nor as anyone being desperate. I think it's just where you've got 2 people, neither wants to just sit home doing nothing ... so hey lets meet this Friday - for better or worse. No pressure at all. | |
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| Anyone notice the new feature, Want a date on Friday night?
Posted: 6/27/2009 5:56:55 AM |
I think it's just where you've got 2 people, neither wants to just sit home doing nothing ... so hey lets meet this Friday - for better or worse. No pressure at all.
I was thinking along the same lines as you njdxnj ... I had a look at the list on thursday as I wasn't able to do the planned dancing I wanted to do because of an injury (going whatever this evening though!) there wasn't anyone that I fancied meeting unfortunately so spent another night in : (
I have met guys on the spur of the moment in the past and purely for face to face conversation instead of virtual ones... I did that a couple of xmas's ago and I had only just got chatting to him when I suggested we meet for a face to face conversation instead... he agreed and we had a really nice evening chatting away about alsorts. Never met him again but that wasn't the point of meeting in the first place... just two people who didn't fancy staying in on their ownsome. | |
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| Anyone notice the new feature, Want a date on Friday night?
Posted: 6/27/2009 6:52:33 AM | I noticed that about 2 weeks ago. I thought they were going to plan get-togethers like dinner, a dance or a coffee social.
I'm up for it. It's just asking who wants to go out Friday night? Heck, why do we need a whole other category when we can plan amonst ourselves? | |
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| Anyone notice the new feature, Want a date on Friday night?
Posted: 6/27/2009 11:11:37 AM | Man, I've been away too long...got busy with other things and now there is a lot more responses.
Pro-filer, I can't understand why you didn't get any responses, because you are pretty, and your profile is nce, too, although maybe they didn't feel it told enough about you, since it was done in humor. Still, if they can't take a joke, would you want to go out with them? It's just a one night date, after all, and they could find out what they want to know then.
Not innocent, another week has passed...did you ever try it? I'd like to know what you thought.
Jaqi, I'm surprised to hear that you got no takers either...and you are also very pretty. Have you considered contacting someone who is on the list, instead of waiting for someone to contact you?
It's not really any different than a blind email except you can say "Hey, saw that you might be free this Friday PM to get together with the right guy...I could be that guy. Give my profile a shake and let me know if you're interested" Yeah J!dub, you could be right. I was thinking, 'why would I want to go out with someone who has never shown an interest before, and I haven't had a chance to get to know?'...but maybe I'm wrong in thinking like that....limiting myself, huh?
Abelian, this list isn't generated by POF...we put ourself on it. That's the difference between this list and the other ones you mentioned.
Kow626,
filtering seems to be the biggest issue. if i don't meet your mail settings restrictions, i shouldn't show up in your search n u shouldn't show up in mine n vice versa. n since i can't contact u based on those restrictions, u shouldn't b able to contact me n vice versa. You have a very valid point there. That would get aggravating, I would think. You can't blame people for their restrictions, as we all know who we would like to date...who we are looking for. Who wants to go out with someone they have no interest in? hopefully, though, POF will come up with a way to eliminate those that don't fit from showing up, though.
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| Anyone notice the new feature, Want a date on Friday night?
Posted: 6/27/2009 11:15:52 AM | Carolann0308, I wonder about the trust issue, too. Knowing nothing about them could set a woman up for a bad experience, I would think, unless I saw a testimonial from a local woman, letting me know that she had met him and was vouching for him being a nice guy. (This is how I think the testimonials SHOULD work, BTW)
Lilpaco, another beauty with no luck...well, I don't guess I'll be trying MY luck on it, then...*sigh*
Ouch, Exciting one...how rude! I would've deleted, too....and for your information, I don't see where you have a weight problem. It's HIS problem, not yours.
Maybe98012, it seems like a lot of people just haven't noticed it yet....look at the people on this forum thread who didn't know about it before seeing this thread....and some people never read the forums. I think that maybe we need to give it moretime before judging.
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| Anyone notice the new feature, Want a date on Friday night?
Posted: 6/27/2009 11:31:00 AM | I'm starting to think that it is just another useless gimmick, like the "if you're really serious, then buy a gold dot" thing.
Any one of us is totally free to contact anyone else, within the email limitations, and say "Hey, ya wanna go out Friday night?" Most of us would say no to that kind of blatant, sudden approach. I think it's a rather poor attempt at legitimiatizing such an approach...making it acceptable, saying it's "okay" to approach someone like this. Almost like a "hook-up is okay" thing.
Truthfully, if you rec'd, out of the blue, an email that had those words in it on a Thursday morning, would say..."oh, heck, yeah, I'll take a chance...I don't know a dang thing about you, but I'll go out with you Friday night!"
I think it's cheapening this site, lowering its quality and respectability...just as the pay for serious gold member" status is.
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| Anyone notice the new feature, Want a date on Friday night?
Posted: 6/27/2009 5:35:53 PM | I didn't understand the point--I figure if someone is on the site and had logged in during the past few days, they probably are open to a date on Friday night. It's a little cheesy to me, like we're all looking for dates so  pick me pick me. | |
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| Anyone notice the new feature, Want a date on Friday night?
Posted: 6/29/2009 11:29:00 AM | Sweet J-me baby,
I don't think that new feature is something for me. I prefer getting to know a person prior to meeting, seeing if there are any common interests or if we spark each other's interest enough to want to meet. To put myself on some list for random strangers to hook-up with me for a date on a whim would make me feel somewhat like an escort, I think. That's exactly the way I was thinking.....but maybe we are wrong, judging from posts below yours? 
Whole 9 Yards...Well??? I'm waiting to hear how it went....or aren't you tellin'? 
HDspringer09,
What's up, POF? Secretly accepting bribes to "remind" someone of someone? bribes, indeed!! That's funny, but that obviously isn't the case with mine. Funny thing, though...I put the first one in my favs...then another popped up and it was another non-local guy, but someone I consider an online friend, so I added him to my favs too. Now its been a few days and there haven't been any. Maybe POF gave up on trying to do that to me again!  njdxnj, well, I certainly LIKE your take on this!! It sounds like fun when you think of it that way. Hmmmm...maybe some of us should just change our way of thinking?  I have another question...I notice that you can change the mile radius within certain limits to get dates...but how do you know whether the other person is willing to go that distance? When you sign up, does it ask you how far you are willing to go? I mean, you can expand your choices by playing around with the ages, too, but when the ages aren't agreeable to both, it's obvious on the profile. ~DC~ | |
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| Anyone notice the new feature, Want a date on Friday night?
Posted: 6/29/2009 7:14:26 PM | | I signed up the past two weeks. I got nothing out of it. I even tried messaging a few women who had signed up also. I just got the usual read/deleted. I'm skipping this week because I'll be busy. I don't think I have anything to lose with this date night thing. I'd rather go out with someone I don't know very well then sit around watching tv or browsing the internet on a Friday night. Two people meet up somewhere, and if the date goes sour, I can just leave and forget about the woman I met. If I get stood up, so what? I've been stood up before, it's not the end of the world. I'll take the chance, I've done dumber things then meet someone I don't know at a resturant. | |
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| Anyone notice the new feature, Want a date on Friday night?
Posted: 6/29/2009 7:24:14 PM | I don't think I have anything to lose with this date night thing. I'd rather go out with someone I don't know very well then sit around watching tv or browsing the internet on a Friday night.
I agree. What have I got to lose.  | |
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| Anyone notice the new feature, Want a date on Friday night?
Posted: 6/29/2009 7:37:00 PM | | Yeah I was wondering about that. I put my name up for a couple of them and not sure how it is suppose to work never got anything out of it. If anyone knows hows it suppose to work please let me know, message me on my profile. Thanks. | |
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