| One liner profiles
Posted: 1/20/2007 9:15:30 AM |
I've come across a lot of 1 liner profiles, in fact one woman had three words total(!) and one of those wasn't really a true word. Then you look down at the favorites and they're triple digits !?!? For what, the ability to actually make it here without tripping?
nope but perhaps because a picture says a thousand words???  | |
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cjsfu
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Joined: 1/7/2007
Msg: 27 | |
| One liner profiles
Posted: 1/20/2007 1:34:23 PM | Here, here dog walker.
With these one liners, what is there to respond too other than a pic if there is one, physical atributes and location...
Some don't even put in any interests so you can't even respond to those.
What is a guy or girl to do at that point but pass them on by till they get their act together.
Cheers,
CJ  | |
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 1/20/2007 3:34:13 PM | as oephys pointed out with his examples, there are a few of the same one liners from the women that don't really lead to anything of substance to pursue other than their pic, and some of those also don't have pics to help further a conversation off of. personally i don't have a problem with the ones that say they're just here checking things out, after all, they're being honest about what they're looking into and also give the impression that they may or may not hang around based on what they see.
for yayawhatever, i have no thoughts on what drives women(other than insane), i take people as they are without pre-expectation and go from there.
i have often wondered the same things as puppylove, if they aren't willing to share abit about themselves, how are you supposed to get to know them? and why would you try to get to know them when they haven't put the effort out to share with everyone else? | |
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 1/20/2007 5:52:37 PM |
^^^^^ @ canada he
150 word limit?!... How little he knows
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wait....i meant...Minimum of 0 words to a Maximum of 150 words. | |
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Diogi
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Joined: 10/1/2006
Msg: 30 | |
| One liner profiles
Posted: 1/20/2007 6:02:13 PM | One-liners have a bad reputation!
Mine is simple, honest and timely... kind of like the "Open/Closed" sign on the front door of a store. | |
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 1/23/2007 4:09:22 PM | There is just something inheritantly wrong with the psuedo intellects that think a one liner profile is going to attract anything more than laughter and a quick click into oblivion.
What is the point? If you aren't prepared to divulge some intel about your persona or what you are seeking, why bother being on here in the first place.
Stand up, be brave and give up something of remote interest to have a pursuit for more.
My humble opinion as always.
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/4/2009 9:07:13 PM |
Re: The one liner profiles. I have responded to guys who have written them in the past and asked them why only the one line. Their response usually was that they wanted something to talk about when we met or did not want to "spill their guts" on a website.
sounds like a face-saving response to me :) | |
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/4/2009 9:10:20 PM |
In the past I myself have had a one-liner profile. In my case, the answer to the query is simple. I was being stalked and I was here to read forums and would only respond to men that I had messaged first. I saw no need to tell the world what was going on with me so I just left the spaces empty or filled them with silliness.
even if you're afraid of being stalked, you can still put stuff about what you're looking for in a man/woman. you can also put something that would spark an interesting conversation in in the awkward moments during a date. stuff that wouldnt make you vulnerable should it turnout that he becomes a stalker out of it. | |
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/4/2009 9:15:03 PM | I notice that alot of guys dislike filling
out profiles, which is understandable. Mine
really sucked when I started. But being blasé
about it is likely to make you blend in with
the other guys -- and highly likely to:
* make you look quite boring
* half-assed at the things you do
* make the already awkward attempt to connect
online even more awkward.
An interesting profile will,
* at best, heighten interest
* will, at the least, allow for a more comfortable
point of discussion (however brief) before deciding
to connect in person.
* allow for a more comfortable point of discussion
should there be some awkward silence during the date.
In any case, life is more interesting when you try your
best at whatever you do. Just a thought. :) | |
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/4/2009 9:24:34 PM | ^^^
I agree, a more interesting profile will garner more attention, hopefully from the people you're hoping to attract.
There is a caveat though, for there are those who have a short attention span and only look at photos.  | |
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/4/2009 10:07:42 PM | Hey, one liners worked for John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, and Arnold too. | |
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/4/2009 10:17:39 PM | Yup, it kind of surrounds the profiler with a mysterious aura. Actually, seriously, most people go by the pictures. I prefer short profiles.
Sweet Jane
And, yes, I actually do believe the pictures and the non-optional details on a profile count for the most. The rest is gravy. MM - you understand, don't you? | |
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/4/2009 10:38:46 PM | | In my experience, most men don't read past the first picture. | |
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/4/2009 11:01:37 PM | ^^^ And if the pic is a cleavage shot,  they won't even get past that!!!! | |
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/4/2009 11:43:54 PM | Now, now you two ^^^^^! claws in please. LOL.
When I go fishing, my intro line is not much more then two or three lines. But they are usually enough to have them go to my profile read and pic. This is where I have a fairly good amount of current pic and info for many to at least respond, even if they feel that we wouldn't be a match.
I very much like it when woman takes the time to send me a short note to let me know that they interested or not, because they are at least giving me the time that I gave them in showing interest.  | |
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/5/2009 12:25:46 AM | One liner profiles
Message: In my experience, most men don't read past the first picture.
they like cartoons - add a cartoon ...I did
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/5/2009 2:35:41 AM |
In my experience, most men don't read past the first picture.
Sad, but true.
Further to that, most males don't enjoy writing (papers, essays, forms, profiles) and find it much less... "effiminate" to talk about themselves or let people find out.
On the other side of the coin, who really enjoys reading a life story? | |
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/5/2009 5:20:48 AM |
In my experience, most men don't read past the first picture.
There's pictures?????? Where??? Where?????
Oh,,,I thought you meant the "good" pictures. I always look for THOSE ones but there never ever on here until they get SENT thru the e-mail.
Us guys have learnt that anymore than a paragraph or two and some out there get lost. We're just trying to do you gals a service and keep your mind on what is in front of ya. At least were trying.  | |
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/5/2009 10:24:51 AM | We don't read past the first picture? Ouch, I represent that remark.
...I mean I resemble that remark.
...I mean I resent that remark. Yeah that's what I meant.
Guys don't look at women as merely sex objects. We look at them as a hole.
...I mean a whole.
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/5/2009 11:08:22 AM | ^^^^ LOL. Humorously put.
I consider one-liners and few or no hobbies/interests listed as an indication of how they would be on the phone or in real life -- uncommunicative.
One man who had a one-liner on his profile did contact me, and after a few one-liner (or one- or two-word) replies from him, he said he was a slow typist and asked me to phone him. I did, just to see if my initial assessment was correct, and he probably spoke a dozen words in our brief 'conversation' (mostly "Ya" or "Not much", that sort of thing).
One example is hardly an empirical study, I realize, but from now on, if the fellow has a one-liner on his profile, I'm not interested unless the message he sends me shows a lot more thought and interest. | |
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/5/2009 11:29:04 AM | I pass up one line profiles and profiles that have a lot of prefer not to says on them. If a fellow is too whatever (you fill in the blank) to put something in a profile to catch my interest then he does not get it. Who knows or cares what the mentality behind it is I am simply not interested. | |
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/6/2009 2:18:32 AM | One, or two - Liners tis all that's needed.
Some stats ..... a pic ..... and a forth-coming message to meet
I am not one to enjoy reading novels on-line.
Words. Just words. W-O-R-D-S.
Can be mis-leading ~ ~ oft times deceiving.
Save all the tall tales for later,
For the short walk or the long walk from which
springs the short talk or the long talk
~ Silence can be quite Golden ~
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/6/2009 3:08:02 PM | A lot of the times I see the one-liner profiles on profiles for Newbies....more often profiles of very young single guys looking for a hook up... a one-niter.
they don't want to be bothered to let anyone know anything about them because they are not here to get to know someone or to date.....they are here to hunt for fresh meat.
then again they could just be plain lazy.....and they think a hawt pic is enough for someone to fall all over them.
me?... I don't have the hawt looks.....so I got to fill out my profile! | |
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/6/2009 8:45:19 PM | ^^^How true WWR!
I also believe that if he is putting so little energy into attracting someone now, it will be the same of worse once he is with a woman...Blagh!
MN | |
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| One liner profiles
Posted: 8/6/2009 9:14:02 PM | When I was more serious about dating, I would just look at the mandatory details and the photo, too. If I actually was going to meet someone, I would then read their profile.
I think one should do their homework before going on a date. | |
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