| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/5/2006 3:06:25 PM | If someone messages me i always read their profile before replying, but then i always reply, even if it's just to say thanks for the message. I never message anyone first even if they have nice pics, but i do click on people, when they come up along the top, male or female and read their profile....i'm one of lifes nosey people!!!lol.....so it's a must for me | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/5/2006 3:14:29 PM | I read the whole of a profile before deciding to get in touch. After all, we are total strangers, and I need something to discuss in the first email.
I tend to ignore comments like " no balding Yorkshiremen need apply". | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/5/2006 3:31:13 PM | | I always read them. If I'm thinking of contacting them hopefully I'll find something in there for a conversation starter. Or there could be something that's off-putting. So many are very plain and generic, like was said earlier, only a few words changed from one profile to another. Others say hardly anything at all, which actually says a lot. I need to see some personality, not just a pretty face, cleavage or her knickers. | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/5/2006 3:46:29 PM | I like to read peoples profiles before I contact them. It gives me a small insight into how they think, what they like, if we would have anything in common etc.
I don't reply to messages that say 'wow you're hot' 'have you got msn' etc, as I'd rather someone got to know me for who I am first | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/5/2006 4:33:13 PM | a profile must be laid out in a novel way to make it worthwhile, i get so bored with reading the same old cliches day in day out, most members are innefectual semi-literate boring buggers, i feel like messaging some of them and pointing out their spelling mistakes and bad grammar, but that would be wrong, because whoever they are going to be messaging will find out soon enough that they`ve got a complete moron messaging them.
most profiles i attempt to read get clicked off after the first few seconds, a profile must hit you hard between the eyes from the very start.
you dont need to tell people you have a good sense of humour, you can make that obvious in your content. a lot of women on the site kid themselves with humour, they think they have a sense of humour when there`s none there,you find that out when you message them with a novel theme on humour, and they dont return your communication because they dont understand anything more than the very basic stuff.
and the amount of men who think they are funny or like to shock with their many references to sex with double entendres a kid of 6 or 7 would groan at, then they follow on with hehehe, as if you probably missed the infantile inuendo. | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/5/2006 4:52:01 PM | I do, and usually send people PMs with spelling corrections, lolol.
I got a reply back the other day "u r rude! i can see why ur divorced"
I replied and told her that I was doing it to help, that actually I'm a good guy... it's all about marketing really.
Your profile is your selling tool... the first bite is with the eye. Therefore a pic and a nice profile works wonders.
I couldn't be bothered to sell myself as I'm on here for friends, but if I was I'd sit down and do it right. I wouldn't be deceitful, or creative with the truth, just happen to make sure that what I put down shows the real me and gives people an incite.
Then if people like me... yay. If not no biggie, I'm still me and I'm still a happy chappy! :D | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/5/2006 5:44:15 PM | Yes i always read a profile if someone lives near me and find her attractive in her photo.Have read a couple of ladies profiles that post on here that interest me but i'm not saying who 
Have made my profile invisible in searches for now for various personal reason(but not sure if that includes from the left side of these posts) if it wasn't for this wacky forum i would be long gone. | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/5/2006 6:23:14 PM | Dave. message 33
an incite? or an insight?
oh please let it be message irony ;)
'Hoist by your own petard'
Just joking, strange sense of humour | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/5/2006 6:39:19 PM | | well i think it's sometime the pic that tell's the story, i've had lot of reply's mainly chat's and yet i've still not found time to complete my profile, but i will very soon because most of my contact keep asking me for more info about myself? | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/5/2006 7:13:15 PM | I alway read it if i'm gonna contact someone~I like a lot of info in a profile {not a life story though makes findin something to say slightly hard} & i like it writen well.
l never go off just pictures & I contact people without pictures if i like the write up.
age and location doesn't really bother me where as if someones married,just looking for sex it does, them type of people don't apeal to me.
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/6/2006 2:03:28 AM | Yes I do why? Because I am too nosey 
Apart from those who I talk to on here alot and online mates
I get lots of messages about the meet nights etc.. 
So I always look to see how far away they are etc.. helps with travel & other info too
Has helped me lots of time's too when reading the forums & people have ' massaged the truth ' 
I have quite a good memory too which helps lots - when needed lol... | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/6/2006 3:57:40 AM | Lol, no I'm not "blown up by my own bomb" :P (Well if I fib, I'm not)
I meant, of course, to incite people to message me, stringently_flexible *winks*
And it's cool, I like, haha! | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/6/2006 4:16:12 AM | Yes, I do read peoples profiles.
When they message me.
When they pique my interest here in the forums.
When I'm 'browsing'.
I get annoyed by the 'ask me' comments on lots of them - that's the point of a profile!
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/6/2006 4:19:07 AM | | Yes always. A profile says a lot about someone, and the more I know about them first the easier it is to communicate with them. | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/6/2006 5:12:12 AM | Of course I read the whole profile, otherwise how can you message them with any modicum of decency or interest in them.
At least by reading the whole profile it can give you some ideas as to how to compose your "first contact". That is, of course, assuming that they have provided some form of information on their profile that you could comment on in some way. If they have not then the lack of information coudl be commented on! | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/6/2006 10:41:11 AM | Picture first to see if i like the look of them then i'll read their profile and pick bits of it to mention when i message them. Then they read mine and don't reply, maybe i should include something that's actually about me.
What gets me about peoples profiles is they tell you what kind of person they are what type of bloke their looking for but put they're only looking for friends or chat. Then to top it off they put a long list of conditions about people who can't message them?? Why? you're looking for friends not a bloke.
Then there's the ones who are looking for 'dating' but say they prefer not to say if they've got kids. At least be honest about having them, it looks like you're ashamed of them because it might put people off. | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/6/2006 12:42:48 PM | | Yep I certainly do, cause whats the sense in writing to someone you find you don't fancy when you meet, also a lot of people reveal a lot more about themselves than they put into writing.I hope that ppl read my profile as it's there for their information. what annoys me is ppl who don't bother to write with a polite "No thank you" and just delete the letter. | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/21/2006 12:58:41 PM | Thank you Misty 
I had a big injection of humour this morning, should keep me going for a while.
You guys should be scared, fear the unknown and a man hater. 
I do read people's profiles before replying or making first contact. | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 12/21/2006 1:03:10 PM | Always, and I only contact the ones whose profile I like. ultimately I'm looking to meet someone and I have things in common with, so personality - which comes over in manner of writing - is important.
I get the feeling I might be in a minority | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 8/21/2007 9:11:16 AM | It's really good to see that a lot of folk do read profiles.
I always do.
I just wish that people who messaged me did...maybe that's too much to ask! | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 8/21/2007 9:22:34 AM | | I always read profiles. I look at the pic first and then read all of their profile. If the profile makes me laugh I'll message them. | |
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| Do you read peoples profiles?
Posted: 8/21/2007 9:32:43 AM | Picture is what takes me to the profile, so naturally I read it, whats the point in getting in touch with someone you have nothing in common with..
Also because I'm so nosey, I will read other forumites, male or female, and people I have met at a meet, gives you an insight into what makes them tick.... | |
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