| | User has private images VS. No image VS. imagePage 1 of 1 | Hi all.
Just curious if anyone is reading the Quebec forum #1, we're 3rd to last behind PEI and NWFLD...voyons donc!
So what's your message ratio related to images?
User has private images - would you send a message or skip?
No image - profile is great, but we're visual creatures...would you send a message?
image - a picture tells a 1000 words, but does it make you NOT message?
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| User has private images VS. No image VS. image
Posted: 12/22/2011 6:15:06 PM | FOR MYSELF I DON'T REALLY CARE IF HE HAS A PICTURE OR NOT ,IF THE CONVERSATION FLOWS THATS ALL THAT MATTERS IN THE BEGINNING, IN TIME SURE I WOULD WANT TO SEE A PICTURE OF WHOM I'VE BEEN TALKING TOO. BUT SEEING HIS PICTURE IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE ANYTHING ,IF OUR CONVERSATIONS HAVE BEEN GREAT... | |
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| User has private images VS. No image VS. image
Posted: 12/23/2011 7:31:59 AM | thanks pomolive !
So those conversations you mentioned, did they start with you sending a message to a profile with no images or perhaps with private images?
That's the discussion I was having with other POF'ers offline from the forums.
I do tend to skip over the no image or private image profiles.
When I read the About Me or Interests sections, and they are really enticing, I'm still more likely to skip over the profiles.
I guess I'm more comfortable in visually seeing the person, just to know that I might be interested in going that extra step of initating a conversation by sending a message. | |
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Posted: 12/23/2011 9:06:28 AM | My profile is set up to accept messages from profiles without images, but there is an option to restrict any messages from profiles with out images.
I thought about turning it on but then I thought about if I were to like the person on paper only, why dismiss them, right?
The thing is, I am motivated to send new messages to profiles with images that I also like what they wrote in the their profile.
Oh and I definitely don't always reply to messages I get and I don't think it's impolite to just delete. A recent message I got was from a lady who is a non-smoker profile and on her about me, she explains that she smokes joints at night to relax...give me a break!
I am pretty clear about smokers on my profile, that's a deal breaker for me, big turn off.
Happy Holidays pomolive! | |
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Posted: 12/23/2011 9:38:15 AM | I haven't a clue how my profile is set up. I don't think I have any sort of restrictions on picture or no picture...If the person takes the time to send me an e-mail, the very least that I can do is reply......postively or negatively.....!.
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| User has private images VS. No image VS. image
Posted: 5/21/2012 10:59:53 AM | thats where males and females differ. vastly.
we are visual creatures.
im having this debacle myself. i want to see photos, but then, if i ask for photos and im not attracted to the girl
ill feel bad for blanking her. im hardly going to say, sorry, but i dont find you attractive
though in essence thats what i am saying by blanking her.
so.
to message or not to message... | |
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Posted: 6/7/2012 6:20:11 PM | | no picture = not taking this seriously. I don't care about looks (at all) but if someone doesnt put one up or refuses to show one than I loose interest. Also, I find you can tell a lot about a person by their picture (i.e. if their smiling or holding booze...those things influence me) | |
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Posted: 6/8/2012 12:15:50 PM | I hate seeing myself on a picture, does not meen I don`t look good, some people also judge too fast, I know for one people judge too fast by looks, sometimes just because they fell intimidated by what transpires from the looks of the person.
Just my 2 cents | |
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Posted: 7/25/2012 7:36:48 AM | | Hello , to me I find it not so credible profile when there is no picture and what is the purpose of being on a dating site without posting your picture , this is not a beauty contest but it is being up front about the real motives for being here , i personally think everyone should have a picture of themself , alot of times the ones not posting pictures are just playing their games in here and wasting people time and theirs! | |
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Posted: 7/25/2012 8:49:38 AM | I once dated a girl who had no profile pic, because she was a high visibility professionnal and didn't want her customers/co-workers seeing her on here (I didnt really ask her why, to each his own).
I think I waited for a week and 6-7 back and forth messages before asking for a picture, and I was pleasantly surprised !
We saw each other for 9 months, then it went to shit but that's another story :p
Nowadays if someone writes me without a pic, I will reply but ask for a pic (or at least WHY that person has no pic) | |
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Posted: 7/25/2012 10:00:12 AM | | Seems though with my experience in here in mtl area anyways ,lots of men who dont post a picture are not real and genuine profiles, hey we are adult ,i fugure everyone should assume being on a dating site and even if it means everyone finds out ... what is so unprofessional about being on a dating site , this is the modern day way of finding love ,which ever their own definition of love that is ; i call it each their own appropriate love ! | |
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Posted: 1/29/2013 12:31:33 PM | Hi everyone,
I agree it's a good question to ask why is there no picture.
But then, if there is a picture it doesn't mean it's gonna click.
I said that in another thread, to be in a relationship, it's important to be attracted by the other one, if I do not find a girl beautiful, how will I make her feel beautifull ?
And if I don't, how would she feel ?
Some people can feel the connexion through the intellect only, personnaly I need it to be both in the personnality, in the intelligence and in the body.
But eh, It is only to be polite to answer to someone who wrote you a decent email, isn'it ?
It's better to be told straight ahead "not interested, sorry", then to be ignored.
All of this being said, and since we're talking about pictures, people, please, do not post a photo of you with your ex-boyfriend/girlfriend. It's depressing, if you're up for a new relationship, maybe it's not for the best to present you by a relic of the last one... Who would like to feel like the replacing plan ?
Somebody might want to date you, but nobody not your ex and certainly not you thinking about your ex.
Just speaking my mind, ^_^ | |
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Posted: 2/6/2013 3:22:28 PM | (yup guess who's back..but as a simple member now)
Pictures, privates, no pics....Its about reciprocity and politeness first.
- You do have public images on your profile, Perfect!! do they date of THIS decade, is the question! If your pictures are more than 2-3 years old...insert the date; otherwise you are deceptive and shooting yourself in the foot the second the person first see you in the flesh.
- You have private images and you message some who display her/his picture publicly? the decent thing to do is to include one of your private image in the message. Not doing so is a flag of either lacking in politeness and proper education...or you have something to hide...again you are shooting yourself in the foot.
- You have private images and you message someone who do not display pictures (having none or private), negotiate that both exchange pics after few message; reciprocity and knowing "what's what".
- You have no image at all? Either you been living in a cave..or have something to hide, including that you're not serious...its a big red flag for many. | |
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