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Posted: 4/3/2005 2:58:53 PM | Oh, I just can't stop sharing my happiness:)
It happens that we are apart till 5 pm today - so I thought I will use this time to encourage other people to keep trying.
Look at 34 and 5 more days through my thread.
I wrote it all there.
It takes some work to be a perfect couple - but it took me POF and one day to find someone to start working :)
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Posted: 4/3/2005 3:04:25 PM | aw yeah i read the thread...thats awesome!! :-D good luck with that!! | |
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Posted: 4/3/2005 3:08:20 PM | | Hahaha, that's just a little joke. Since no one reads my profile anyway or is interested in it then it doesnt matter what's on it. I meant my previous profile when I said an "ok profile"- not that one!!! And Tera- I'm here to use the forum. That OK with you, or do you want me to leave? | |
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Posted: 4/4/2005 7:15:42 AM | I contacted a girl from this site, and we're together now. Delynn1369. Nothing works unless you know how to work it!
Eborys, you could get so many women if you stick your chest out, show some confidence, and make em blush with that intelligence. They don't even have to know what you're saying, just say it and wink at them! 
Secretsunfolded, i happen to be a fan of those "four-letter-words"... farm... love... futt b*cking... hahaha! Anyways, I'm glad you started this thread and are at least trying to show some people some love and giving congrats.  <- that's me toasting you!
Go easy on Eborys, He's prolly just letting out some pent-up frustration... Even though when i have some I just ask my girlfriend how old she was when I was born and I laugh for half an hour when she gets the "OH THANKS FOR REMINDING ME!" face. 
Tera, You are the ever-lasting badass. Don't leave because we CRAVE you.  | |
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Posted: 4/4/2005 2:55:08 PM | | I agree about the f you comment on eborys profile. Plus there is no smile on any photos, were those taken at a funeral? I also noticed that you tend to have a negative spin to put on things. I have met ugly girls with no personality, ugly girls with a great personality (tip-get photo FIRST!) HOT complainers with a cr*ppy attitude, good looking woman who didnt like me, good looking woman who I didnt really get the fuzzys on and THEN BAM!! Hooked up with Rusfeline and have been inseperable ever since. And to dispute your claim that girls dont reply, I get a response more often than not. Add to the fact SHE messaged ME....and she's S...a...m...o...k...i...n!! | |
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Posted: 4/4/2005 3:56:58 PM | | I already said the F you thing is a joke, my profile wasnt allways like that. I'll change it in a while. Also, I'm smiling in one of my pics. Its better than a picture of Elmo at least. | |
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Posted: 4/4/2005 5:21:45 PM | Hey, he had his real picture till he met me :)
We are honestly together now - so - I think Elmo is just right :) | |
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Posted: 4/4/2005 5:33:53 PM | Geesh fella, if it worked for me and for for you you are in really bad shape!
I met someone great but I think I had a little better outlook than that shcmuck. | |
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Posted: 4/4/2005 7:36:37 PM | I've got one... met him within the first 3 days of having my prof up and running... im'd for 3 weeks, met in person... the rest is history. I have NEVER known anyone with soooo many common interests and soooo personable to boot. He is kind and generous and we can talk for hours about everything and nothing at all. I recommend POF for anyone... it is the best way to screen out the weirdos and pervos and jerks and pooey people out to get us. It's like window shopping for a mate, then you think you see something you like, you try it on and it either fits or it doesn't... but the cord is easier to cut before you really get to meet them in person. So my suggestion: REALLY get to know the person before you decide to meet in person... that way you already know you like everything about them so much that there really couldn't be much chance left for you to have your heart broken by the time you actually meet IRL. It worked for me, and it's a TRUE match made right here at POF. Sounds too good to be true? No, it's soooo good it's UNBELIEVABLY true, but it's true for sure. 
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Posted: 4/4/2005 10:05:16 PM | congrats dance... 
i agree with your suggestion,
and also that this place has helped me realize what type of guys are no good. like the ones in the IMS only talk about how "in the mood" they are and what they want to do. those guys=no good, unless thats whatur looking for in which im not.
im new, so i havent met anyone yet irl, but there is one person that im hoping works out...  | |
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Posted: 4/5/2005 5:59:16 AM | Secrets... we talked about this. You live in Delaware, things cannot work out between us. I'm sorry...
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Posted: 4/5/2005 10:33:00 AM | darn it...my dreams are shattered.
on the topic of success stories..im wondering how far the people are away from each other when they hit it off and be together? just curious :) | |
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Posted: 4/5/2005 11:23:24 AM | In response to waspleg's request for pie graphs, I think that bar or line graphs might be more appropriate.
Pies only tell toy what percentage of the total population are categorized into relationships/hook-up/friends, pie graphs don't tell you the overall numbers...
Bar graphs have the ability to demonstrate the percentages as well as the total numbers within these categories. Bar graphs can also demonstrate changes in a longitudinal survey, that is, a survey that takes place over time…thus we could see how POFers are growing, or declining in our abilities to catch quality fish, in a survey over a period of say, the past year.
So dominate hypothesis presented here is that women are more successful on this site because there are less women on POF than men. Thus women receive more responses to their profiles, and find more dates/hook-ups/friends/relationships.
MY critique of this research model is that the successful (straight) fishing women have to be finding relations with someone. Therefore, somewhere out there, POF women are finding POF men.
So, as a good academic, I present an alternative hypothesis to why you read more testimonials from women than men. Women are more socially inclined to verbally gush about their relationships, therefore, POF women are more likely than POF men, to post positive testimonials on our forums.. Ahh, the research one could do on this topic...my little nerd-heart is a-flutter!
I am such a stats geek, aren’t I? Luckily, I have found a wonderfully nerdy-fish, who appreciates my inner statistician and trivia freak. | |
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Posted: 4/5/2005 1:53:24 PM | | Impressive use of demography/ statistics jargon but doesnt sound very plausible. You saying there less success stories amoung women compared to men than we think there is? That's bullshit. Look how many good looking women have hundreds of people putting them on their fav lists, all the stories about women getting hundreds of e-mails a day (how many guys get that?) and how many times do you see a "no responses" complaint/ rant thread? Its usually made by guys. You cant deny women get more attention than men around here. | |
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Posted: 4/5/2005 2:39:27 PM | secrets, she lives a whopping 18 minutes away from me.
eborys, i've never recieved 100 e-mails in one day... i usually just recieve about 50-60. it's not all fun because unless you're online ALL the time, you won't be able to reply to much.
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Posted: 4/5/2005 3:25:54 PM | thats awesome hrhqod!
i agree girls are more likely to gush about their relationships than guys do. and not all people use the forums...so there are some biases in it.
king-thats cool u found someone so close. but i guess most people find their sucesses with people close to them, long distance is hard anyway. | |
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Posted: 4/5/2005 4:04:29 PM | | Once agian eborys you're excactly right. No man using this site has ever gotten more responses then he knew what to do with. But it's appearently very common for women on here. And why are we so pessimistic again? | |
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Posted: 4/5/2005 7:54:08 PM | | Of course there's more guys than girls,but even if it was even, its still the guys that would be doing all the messaging (or most). And girls are way more fussy than guys. How many times do see a guy putting stuff on his profile like "seeking someone adventurous in spirit...must have goals in life, motivated" etc etc. | |
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Posted: 4/5/2005 8:15:57 PM |
How many times do see a guy putting stuff on his profile like "seeking someone adventurous in spirit...must have goals in life, motivated" etc etc.
cuz we know what we like.
i have motivation and goals in life in my profile cuz ive been with guys who had no motivation whatsoever for his future. they would just sit on their couch, watch games and play video games . and its not what im looking for. its not attractive to me. who wants to date a couch potatoe? would u want to date a girl with no job, no aspirations for her life? | |
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Posted: 4/5/2005 8:38:07 PM | | Eborys.....I dont wish to pile on....you seem very articulate and passionate about what you write......BUT.......what planet did you just arrive from?.....OF COURSE women get 10 if not more times more mail/responses......Thats the way it is.....guys are a horny bunch....PERIOD.....woman in general are more discreet and selective. You also fail to mention the prospect of those 100 messages being split into 8 guys firing off 12 messages, each getting increasingly beligerant at the lack of response. Keep at it.....browse but dont search and your lady will find you. Send messages, absolutely, but keep in focus that there are many jack-a sses out there for your girl to weed through. | |
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