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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 9/2/2007 10:18:38 PM | | I think that great tiger guy sums up what my friends and I have experienced pretty well. Most common reasons are either poor self esteem, or they somehow think that the guy will be just so into them that he won't care about the weight. Regardless of whether the weight is an issue to him, more guys than not do care about the honesty (HWP doesn't mean height and waist size are the same number). I would however, Email someone without a picture, but only with the proviso that I do get a recent picture before we meet (if we're even that compatible). There's a lot of reasons women may not want to post pictures (stalkers, etc.) | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 9/3/2007 5:50:21 AM | | So if a woman is a lot thinner than she says she is, men would also not be interested in her? seems as if women who lie are going to lie if they are large or small, so why is it that I never read comments about the woman being smaller than she says in her profile or who sends an old picture to a man, but if she is a larger woman (my experience has been that men seem to think that a size 12 makes a woman a bbw and even though I have told them my size is 18 and they have seen an accurate, recent picture one said that he thought I was making a joke and the pic was of someone else when I sent the pic that showed my cute, plump realistic self), but then one man left me in a restaurant when he sees that I was too small for him at my size since he likes big women and I don't have a huge ass so he got up and left and why did I lie when I said that I was a larger woman? Attempting to date does seem to be a no win situation these days... | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 9/17/2007 7:27:46 PM | | When I met someone he had a pic and I didn't. I had just joined and was new to the whole scene and no digital camera. We chatted on msn and got to know each other then decided to meet and he was brave enough to do it, without a pic and we were very glad we did. He told me that I was honest about describing how I looked to him, and that even the girls WITH PICTURES had lied about their appearance. It was a good experience for us, so much for you liars. I mean you're gonna get found out the minute he sees you! | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 9/24/2007 10:29:19 AM | Yes actually I did once for something work related about three years back... there are lost of potential misperceptions with meeting folks without pics. Some people actually don't post pics but are willing to forward some once they chose to say hello. Some folks are incredibly shy, others just don't like to post all over the net. The problem could be as simple and dumb as having nothing newer than a pic of self thats newer than five years old. I can see it more often in women... they don't want their ex's or potential stalkers to have anything other than a profile which can be altered or just dumped at any point.
Would I meet someone like that. Does give the woman a certain amount of edge I'd say. She could be five feet from me and if she doesn't announce herself I'd most likely not even know it. I would say yeah but they're stuck with all the pressure of first contact. Most men are visual creatures and like to know that they're not meeting someone who's being sly in an untoward manner | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 9/24/2007 7:22:18 PM | i did that and im like totally stoked and she was hot imean like an angel tall and beautiful and she had a good head on her shoulders and everything it was like God put her there and no i wish i could date her but i went out with her once and then i tried callin again but nothing
oh well maybe one day she will call me | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 9/24/2007 9:22:52 PM | Almost 10 years ago when I was a complete newbie to the internet I met a guy online on a chat site. After emailing, messaging and talking on the phone for about 4 months, I drove 300 miles to meet him in person. Neither one of us had seen a photo of the other, but WOW! Sparks flew! I really think I had already fallen in love with before I ever set eyes on him. We ended up in a relationship for about 3 years, until finally the distance became too much for me to handle.
Would I do that again after all these years of seeing the kind of people you can come across online? No way! But I might drive across town to meet him for a cup of coffee. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 9/26/2007 8:53:24 PM | as a rule i ignore profiles without photos. and even profiles with photos i carefully look at. I carefully read a profile as well. I only message people who appeal to me intellectually, emotionally and physically.
As a photographer, I know what photoshop can do. I think people should have at least one unretouched full body image of themselves on thier profile. This would eliminate a lot of people from meeting up and having an akward moment. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 9/26/2007 9:10:05 PM | I had a strict, "won't answer back without picture" policy. One day I got a charming letter from a gentleman. I went completely against policy and talked with him a bit. He sent me a picture and I thought he was cute. So I didn't meet him without a pic, but we started talking without one.
He's asked me to marry him this past weekend and I said yes.  | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 9/27/2007 8:15:34 AM | WOW fantastic. I'm going to try to be firm in my no pic no contact. If something exceptional comes along then I'm flexible BUT I'm going shallow all the way now. No picture no see. If he's cute but his profile doesn't impress me then I'll give him a miss. I need the physicality of a picture. CONGRATULATIONS | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 9/27/2007 4:59:51 PM | | I had a guy with no pic send me an email asking me to go to an OSU Buckeyes game with him. This was the first email I had ever gotten from him. I tried talking him into meeting at a POF event but he wouldn't have anything to do with it. As much as I'd love to go to a game I declined. I think if they have no pic they have something to hide. Then again, you never know if a pic is really the person you are talking to either. | |
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Mzzzy
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Joined: 7/10/2005
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 9/30/2007 8:19:56 AM | | I wouldn't reply to anyone without a picture, in fact if I know before hand they dont' have a picture I won't even open the message. People who don't have pictures usually don't have them for a reason. Maybe they aren't married or in a relationship, but they're too scared to be open and in my eyes that makes them a non starter. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 9/30/2007 8:56:50 AM | | Excuse thaat they don't have a camera or that they are usually behind the camera or, or, or, None of those excuses stand up in today's digital world with or without timers. You see tourists all the time taking pictures of visitors with their cameras. Heck even if you don't have a camera, you must know someone who does and they can take a whole pile of them, download and mail them to you and then you can pic whichever ones you want. Give me no excuses POLEASE. If the reason is for low profile, privacy, fine just have it available to include with the first email. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 9/30/2007 6:28:59 PM | Yes - and it won't happen again. The guy had lied about his height, his size, and a few other factors - and yes, I know that women are guilty of this also. Of course pics can be faked, I've met guys using their SON's pics too. I fully understand the decision not to post a pic in profile, for privacy reasons, but if we have been emailing or chatting for a few days, I don't understand a guy refusing to send a pic via private email.
If there's no pic by the 3rd or 4th email....maybe he or she doesn't have a face? | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 9/30/2007 6:55:00 PM | Hello I have met men with no picture and with pictures.
I have never been disapointed with men with no pictures , but have been disapointed with some men who posted a picture .
Now understand I am not a shallow person but how can you post a picture that is outdated by 10 years and you don't look anything like it .
Do you think we are not going to notice lol.
I must say though I have met some really great men . Most who were very open and honest and if no connection said it straight out .
so do not give up hope .
There is someone wonderful out there for all of us .
Good luck on your search .
I am still looking and who knows!!
cheers
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faour
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Joined: 6/19/2007
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 9/30/2007 7:38:28 PM | I am a girl, but my opinion may still count. Until today, when I uploaded what I thought was a but* ugly photo because of a forum thread someone wrote, I felt the pic thing was only for looks -- not personality, or something deeper. I really do want to weed out the shallow people.
Anyhoo -- I posted the photo not because I am so good looking or the pic was good, but in part because there is a huge "dating" population in the area where I am starting to date. I get offers, but feel you still have to have some photo and be "more" good looking when in an area where the fish are plentiful. Even if you don't, however, the offers still slowly pour in. The biggest reason for my not-so-great pic, though, is that I understand that some of the forum folk don't like talking to a blank face. Understandable, but not why I think your Hot Guy had no pic.
The point of this is, perhaps the fish are very plentiful where you live? Perhaps he does not need a pic? Just my thoughts. | |
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