| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 12/28/2006 10:26:05 PM | okay so here is the whole thing as how it REALLY works ...
some people not saying all put there bets in on looks .....
so Automatically the higher biddder wins ....Just based on looks .
i would place my bet on chemistry first ...i have seen alot of so called un attractive people get these people that look drop dead gorgeous ...so in the end if you go just upon looks you get burnt .
Therefore i believe a good heart would get my attention more ...even if she was hot . | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 12/29/2006 4:05:23 AM | | Well I have only met a couple ppl from POF. The first one I met I talked to for about 3 weeks. She seemed very nice which is very iimportant but there still has to be the physical attraction there also. She had no pic and she didn't want to send one until we met. So long story short we met and I was majorly dissapointed. She still is a great person but the physical attraction wasn't there. I don't think theres a reason not to put a pic on your profile. It doesn't have to be extreme just being yourself and giving someone an idea of what you look like everyday is great. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 12/30/2006 8:56:52 PM | Hi BossLady!
Actually, I met a man here about a month ago as well. He did not have a picture either, but his profile described exactly what I have been looking for. He has been very intriguing and I met him in the most unusual way. He is gorgeous! Plus, he seems to be everything I would want in a man. We have been dating ever since and I look forward to spending even more time with him. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 1/1/2007 4:36:30 PM | | I have met up only once with a guy without seeing his picture. It was against my normal rules but I took the chance anyways. He said I would not be disappointed so I took his word for it and it was a lesson learned. In the future I have been insisting on seeing a photo and only more than one photo for sure. I have also run into freaks who steal people's identities. They usually don't have a photo posted and then when they send you one, it's not even them. Make sure if you are agreeing to meet up with anybody, you see more than one photo. The more the better. I also met up with a guy recently who looked very hot in all 3 of his photos he had posted. But in person he didn't look anything like that. So, I am still wondering if it's even the same person or not. This person turned out to be a real freak even though when chatting he seemed very nice. Watch out ladies, there's alot of phonies and weird guys out there. It's sad because it ruins it for those few good guys that are out there but we have to play it safe. Screen them thoroughly before even thinking of meeting up and make sure you meet in a very public safe place like a Tim Horton's or something. I have gone as far as reporting a person who I knew he stole someone else's identity and his account was deleted by POF. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 1/1/2007 10:51:09 PM | I did ! About a year ago I met a gal witn no picture. we had talked for quite a while , and decided to meet..........OH MY GOD ! Never ever again! She had lied in her profile details and said she had a little "fluff" around the edges....and was a "few" pounds overweight. She had to weigh over 350 !
We had a nice date and I played it off well. When I walked her back to her truck she asked if her weight bothered me? ..."Oh No"....."Not at all" I replied....! I have no problem with your weight .....its just that I wanted a gal that would "read" my profile ! You see in my profile it said very clearly....No ladies over 180lbs...please !
I wouldnt do that ever again....... | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 1/2/2007 3:36:16 PM | | I don't have a picture on POF and problably never will, so I have no issues with meeting people with no picture. Just because we don't have a picture to post does not mean we are trying to hide something. People should be less worried about how the others look and just meet and see how it goes. You can learn alot about somebody just by chatting. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 1/2/2007 5:20:59 PM | Well you LOOK like you're hiding some thing.
Or maybe you're too dumb to work the internet and learn how to upload photos.
haha
Besides.... when you meet people in real life, their pic is the first thing you see.
So what's the big freaking hassle with letting people here see what you look like? | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 1/3/2007 12:49:23 AM | Personally, I will not say I wouldn't meet someone who did not have a picture, but, it would be as friends. And friends is all that I could be. Like so many people, I am going to be honest. Just like a woman or man is willing to put their presence out there in full, no matter what they think they look like, I am willing to met them on that level as well. It is fare. Now if a woman with no picture on her profile had pictures she wanted to share with me otherwise, I can accept that too. But, no picture means, no date, just a friendly get together to learn more and to see if we can build a nice friendship. And I have done that in the past with two women I met in Yahoo.
Spiderwoman you had a good and strong point why some of us desire some for of visual of why we want to see other peoples pictures. But, to call someone dumb because of it, is not only rude, but defeats your credibility and makes you seem more shallower now. That is just my point of view. But your right to me it seems unfair, suspicious, and almost like one person saying that I can play by my own rules and reap the same rewards. WRONG. In life there should be a balance and fair exchange. You want me to put myself out there and you are afraid to? Not going to work. This is why I say, if I get no pictures before I meet you, it is only friends. And trust me, you could be the hottest woman in the world and my perfect type, but I would not persue you because you showed me you are not willing to compromise where I am. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 1/3/2007 3:26:40 AM |
Or maybe you're too dumb to work the internet and learn how to upload photos.
Ah, insults. The refuge of those lacking a logical argument. Great strategy.
So what's the big freaking hassle with letting people here see what you look like?
Let me point you to the fairly scary gentleman on POF that lives about a block away from me, and you can judge what the potential hassle might be. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 1/3/2007 10:35:34 AM | | The picture thing is more an expression of choice than whether or not you are shallow. And yes, I applaud your bravery and the result of it. I myself don't know for sure if I would, much like yourself, I would be guided by instinct with a measure of reason. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 1/3/2007 5:47:15 PM | | I don't really care if the person has a picture ,because no matter what your goal you need to be friends at first. However I have had an experience in that the person lied and lied and lied and lied and lied and lied. After about the 14 thing I found to be false I said "Good bye my dear" | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 1/3/2007 10:10:47 PM | actually I had a profile on here with no photo, and a guy I was coresponding stopped in on his way by to a job, we had a fun time, he liked my profile. I notice that there are a lot of profiles that don't say who you are at all. Mine is pretty specific, don't date guys without horses!!!! | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 1/3/2007 10:22:10 PM | I would meet anyone picture, no picture. Yet I would rather meet someone who doesn't have a picture because I think they would be less judgemental about my pics and appearence.
People who aren't judgemental and don't give a crap about looks rock!  | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 1/5/2007 9:09:10 AM | I have met a couple of peole without pictures. Pictures being digital and someone with a brain can alter them or upload any pic they feel like. Just having a pic does not mean that is the person.
I have never had a problem with women without pictures describing themselves. Always been reasonable accurate. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 1/6/2007 2:23:27 PM | Oh wow seriously good for you! I'm happy things worked out for the both of you that way and you wrote a testimony about it. It's nice to know there are people on POF who are genuine in meeting people as opposed to playing g "win-lose" games with the opposite sex.
I remember reading a dos and don't article about online dating that suggested avoiding people (especially men) who didn't have pictures on their profiles. According to the author the reason why a man would not put his picture on his profile is likely because he was already in a relationship and he didn't want to be detected by his girlfriend's single friends. As true as that is/can be it's a shame that author had never met me or that pilot you had the fortunates of meeting.
Interestingly enough, the person who introduced me to POF (we don't talk) had a nice profile with a few waist height picture on it. At first, the part you might find confusing about his profile is how dude put down 6 feet as his height while being 4 feet (with shoes on) shorter then me (I'm 6 feet). As I got to know him I realised he was an habitual liar (he was raised that way and sometimes I think would be unable to tell the truth if his life depended on it).
To answer your question yes I would meet someone who didn't have a picture on their profile provided I felt they were the genuine type and of course had what I was looking for in a woman. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 1/6/2007 3:37:32 PM | Yes, one so far, and we are still friends, and I am not considering anything physical with anyone right now anyway but, she is a great gal, physically she is attractive, she definitely intelligent, with a beautiful heart, honest, but I am not ready for anything, unfortunately, even better she has not pressured one bit. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 1/6/2007 5:27:56 PM | I would meet ANYBODY on here without a picture on their profile. That would be known as giving someone a chance. Open to new things. The person behind the pictureless profile, might be learning their computer and don't have a digital camera yet. The pictureless profile may even look like Pamela Anderson, but without that visual connection, you just don't know until you TRY IT.
Yes, the pictureless profile might look like Medusa's twin sister, but unless you are psyhic, how do you know for sure? You don't!
Heck there's profiles with pictures of everything else BUT themself.
If you were blinded, would the pictureless profiles really matter? | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 1/6/2007 6:08:19 PM | Spiderwoman has a good point, and a agree with al her reasons. But at the same time I've done it a few times based purely on the fact that the person sounded cool online.
Hey, the worst thing that can happen is you don't find the person physically attractive. So what? Pictures online aren't a very good indication of how the person will really look anyway, so you're taking that chance regardless. You still meet someone cool.
Yeah, with a pic you feel safer (though it can be fake, old, ridiculously and meticiously photoshopped) but as a guy, I never really felt threatened by the security problem. So you make another friend, no biggy. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 1/6/2007 6:26:04 PM | I've met 4 ladies and a beast on different dating sites. All had pictures. The problem was that 3 of them had pictures posted that in no way resembled what they looked like. Even though 2 of them had posted pictures that had to have been taken at least 15 years ago I was polite and talked to them and finally told them I didn't think it was going to work for us. If I had gotten to the restaurant we met at after they had, there is no way I would have recognized them; they recognized me. One's picture was of a very beautiful slim woman who turned out to be a super humongusly large woman with tree trunk legs. The other had just changed in appearance a bunch since her picture was taken. The third one(the beast) had taken someone elses picture and pasted it on their body, like I wasn't going to notice. There is no way I could have recognized her if I hadn't known what kind of car she was driving. This beast was missing teeth, had dirty fingernails, and could have used a bath. I told her I didn't appreciate her dishonesty and left. Two of the ladies were very sweet and I dated one for 2 years and the other for about a year. In the case of the three liars, they might as well not had pictures posted. They may have done better if they hadn't, because I don't think anyone appreciates a liar. I'm no jewel, but I do look like my pictures.  | |
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