| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 10/12/2008 1:37:19 AM | | I have! His wonderfully attractive voice made me forget that I hadn't seen a picture. This was a few years ago and I still remember our first meeting, wow. And our short romance that continued, wow. I was lucky, and fortunate...considering all the lies that still manage to remain hidden behind pictures. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 10/12/2008 1:53:35 AM | I agree, age lying and younger pictures both genders do.
I saw something funny recently. On a guys profile he had one picture up a tiny bit fizzy [definitely a scanned image] the date on the photo said it was taken in 2000. 8 Years ago, lol.
What comes in handy is asking for a My space page. Not everybody has one but most do so if someone doesn't it just makes me a little wary. You can tell a lot from a My space page, you can tell if it's a fake page. One guy I talked to said he was against drugs but on his my space page his friends were talking about doing them with him. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 10/12/2008 5:25:08 AM | | I am glad that my point came across, Eddie. He was totally not subtle when he said that people who do not post pics are usually unattractive, which is an opinion he has a right to have. My opinion was no different than his, in the fact that both were direct and to the point. The point I was trying to make was that posting a pic is no different than not posting a pic-some are attractive, some are not, and making that sweeping generalization is silly to some who read his words. It is an individual opinion-I do not find him to be attractive, other women might think he is handsome. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 10/12/2008 7:00:17 AM | | Oh My Goodness, how could I have ever been so dumb, when I thought that big and tall/bbw meant that one was either big and tall, and/or bbw? mmmm many others on POF are also dumb, since we did not want to lie and say that we are "a few extra pounds" overweight when we are more than a few pounds overweight. If there had been a choice that said "Short, busty, and bbw", that would have been the perfect choice for my sexy self.....Fifi | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 10/14/2008 11:12:08 PM | RE:2118
fifi, I was just being sarcastic. You will get no argument out of me about pictures. Yes, I have pictures posted. But as it says on my profile, I don't discriminate against anyone if they don't. I talk to everyone who wants to talk. I have been doing this for almost two yrs all together. I have met women with and women without pictures. So far i have never had a problem. I think it's because i have not one superficial bone in me. Usually unless the women it a complete jacka$$, Drunk, Idiot,Air head or moronic i can most times find something in her that i like. She may not be the "one". But i have made a friend. Some of these guys that post on these forums are gonna get old alone because of there way of thinking.  | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 10/15/2008 2:34:18 PM | | I think I will add a pic to my profile, it might be a pic of someone else, but hey, then I will not be a control freak who is surely ugly, insecure, willing to date men no matter what they look like, and whatever else my "generic" profile seems to say about me. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 10/16/2008 7:19:57 AM | i haven't, but i would -- if one of my friends set me up with him
i wouldn't meet someone completely strange (lol, well, ya know what i mean  ) without a picture because it could be anyone - including someone i already know and might prefer to avoid | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 10/16/2008 9:06:46 AM | Yes , I have. We hit it off in emails, chat and on the phone. We talked for about a month prior to agreeing to meet. I appreciated his humor and wit and just had to meet the man behind it.
I was not at all disappointed with his looks either, however it turned out that he was a married man (hence no picture)and now we no longer speak! That was back when I was new to this site and I've learned MUCH since.
Nothing ventured nothing gained, but be wise! | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 10/16/2008 9:36:02 AM | | Seeing a pic of someone isn't shallow it's curious. I have my pic posted and I think there's should be as well HOWEVER.....if it's going to be a High School prom picture from 20 yrs. ago don't bother. My problem is when people, men and woman alike, misrepresent themselves physically. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 10/17/2008 4:05:49 PM | | Safety issues: I leave a pic of the person I'm meeting in my car/with a friend with a copy of profile information, phone number, etc. - just in case. If you're not recognizable from your pic, forget it. You have already deceived me and I am not interested in meeting you! I already know all I need to know about you, thank you very much. That even applies if you post a pic of Mr. Ugliness and turn out to look like a movie star, although I suspect the reverse is more likely to happen in real life. It's one thing to put your best foot forward, it's another thing to post 10 -20 year old photos. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 10/17/2008 5:24:07 PM | I would definitely go on a date with somebody who had no pic.
There are several reasons people do not want to post their pic.
A respectable job is one of them. Some people want to remain anonymous to the public, but are also interested in looking for non-shallow woman out there at the same time.
Take me for example, very handsome, polite, well dressed, working and love my job, earn a great living and so on. I don't even know why I am on POF, seems that shallow woman are all over this site, the ones I didn't think would be turn out to be.
To be honest, I'm disappointed in this dating site, and I'm thinking of just living the single life happily ever after. I like a nice big bed to myself anyways.
Cheers
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 10/17/2008 7:03:39 PM | There are several other reasons people don't want to post their pics. One that comes to mind is they don't want their spouse's single friends to find their pic posted on a dating site...Come to think of it, I did meet someone without a pic one time. Wanna guess how that one turned out?
I just remembered why I always follow that rule now! And I'm not feeling a bit shallow about it. Oh, and I consider my job as respectable as anybody else's. Doesn't stop me from putting up a picture. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 11/5/2008 9:06:24 AM | | I think the author of this thread had it spot on. The people who start asking if you are shallow, and make a big deal of saying they themselves care more about 'the inner person' than looks, say they want to email or chat at length before sending a pic, an excellent indicator they aren't happy with their own looks. I don't have a pic online. However, I do state in my profile that I can refer you to a site that does. The bad part about no pic is that its true, 90% of guys don't even glance at the profiles with no pic so I am potentially missing out on a HUGE pool of possibilities. I also have had the most luck when I have selected and contacted the guy, not the other way around. I've had good luck meeting people online and I think its essential there's a pic of you available SOMEWHERE before making that first date. Chemistry is so very important. I have had it work both ways, the guy shows up, obviously the pics posted are OLD, I mean YRS old! Or, you can be pleasantly surprised and he's even better in person than the pics. Just met a guy last night who looked pretty different than his pics, although they were current, go figure. I feel I have an active enough social life that I don't have the need to post a pic on this site. And people, take a quick look-see at the ones without pics, they will probably be happy to send you one privately. Whatever works. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 11/5/2008 2:21:39 PM | I did this once, although it wasn't someone from pof or even a date just a first meeting. I didn't feel weird or even think about it until right before the meetup when it occuried to me that I was about to walk into a potentially crowded place and I had no idea who I was looking for. Oddly, on this particular occassion I didn't even have a phone number because we had only exchanged emails. Luckily, we arrived around the same time and found eachother easily. The experience was actually one of the most fun first meet experiences I've had and am still good friends with the guy. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 11/5/2008 6:06:37 PM | | I will not talk to anyone without a picture. He either sends me a picture, or I don't talk. Too many wierdo's out there. Plus, I want to see who I am talking to. THat is why I want to meet the person within one month. THen It weeds out the wierdo's. But that still isn't safe because 2 guys showed me one picture. ANd there is no way that was them when I met them. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 11/6/2008 1:19:28 PM | | Actually, it's pretty exciting, have done that a few times. Never know what you are going to run into so I never have my hopes up high. It adds another dimension to the whole process and is fun. Would I do it again? Not sure, that was in my early days of dating when I was new on the scene after 25 years of marriage. | |
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