| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 3/28/2005 2:16:11 PM | About a month ago I got mail from a guy from POF that I thought was cute...so I responded with my msn even with no pic on his profile....something I rarely do. For me a picture is about familiarity ...Anyway..he was even better on msn....smart....funny and intriguing. When speaking about his looks he said "don't worry I am not ugly" and I asked him if having no pic on his profile was an attempt to weed out the shallow people! lol  He said yes..that was 80 % of it and the other part had to do with keeping a low profile for his work (he is a private pilot)
Now let me just say that my instincts online have turned out to be very good...no bad experiences when meeting people at all...so when he asked me to meet hiim for coffee the next day, I agreed. There were no warning bells at all. I knew from the conversation that no matter what his looks we would have a laugh and a good time.
So to make a long story short..we met and he was hot! Not pretty boy movie star looks but totally my type! So coffee turned into lunch turned into an all day date
I was just curious to know if anyone else had ever met anyone without ever seeing a picture and how it turned out?? | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 3/28/2005 2:48:35 PM | wow sounds like you had a great experience there........i havent met anyone from pof with or without a pic..........i did meet someone from another site who was nothin like his pic......but thats the only time i met anyone from online..........mmm.....guess i need to get a little more experience at this........
as my friend onthebus says,
any takers? | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 3/28/2005 2:50:41 PM | | I don't have a pic and probably will never have one. If a man interests me I send a pic. If he is too shallow to talk to me since I do not have a pic, he is not for me. I will send a pic, and if he thinks i am dog ugly, he can say that and move on. I am not attractive to some and am to others. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 3/28/2005 3:01:56 PM | Why would being a private pilot make him leery of putting a pic up for internet dating? This makes no sense. My porcine senses are tingling.
For those who won't talk to people without a pic, what if its obvious web clip art, like the "cats in pain" genre of pics? | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 3/28/2005 3:04:41 PM | I have made that mistake...
Not from POF...but another site back when I started this online dating idea...I was at Matchmaker and this man wrote me, we talked a bit, he seemed very nice...I asked why he had no pic, he told me that he had an ex-gf who was stalking him...So he would not put a pic up...Sounded like a good excuse...
Well what got me about it, yes nice guy, way older than I was given to believe, [he had lied on the profile about his age too...] | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 3/28/2005 3:25:43 PM | i wouldn't do it. i'm even a wee bit leery when it comes to people's pictures, but i want to see who i'm going to be meeting. i don't want to meet up with a random guy who's a lot larger than me (not hard, i'm 5'2") and be thinking "he could do anything to me and i couldn't stop him" the whole time i'm with him.
maybe i'm just paranoid, but that's my two cents worth!! | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 3/28/2005 3:39:30 PM | Once while in Uni. Was at work with friends on an MSN chat forum. Back then everyone was using "HotGuy" or "HotGirl" so we called ourselves "IM2Sexy4U".. Girl came & challenged the nick, turned out to be from the same campus. We met & she was cute 
Never doing it again, though  | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 3/28/2005 4:02:31 PM | honey_kizzes:
Do you really belive that a picture would've made a difference? If he was lieing about his age, he would've most likely have put up a fake one anyway.
As for people that won't talk to people without pictures, It seams shallow and superfisual to me. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 3/28/2005 4:29:31 PM | ohhh yes, a few times, and boy did i learn my lesson, lol never again. one guy was nice to chat to, met him after 3 months of chatting, and still no picture, i trusted him because of his chat. anyways, he was 20 years older than what he said, he said he was 5'10", but he was 5'6", he said blonde hair, well he was bald. Another guy turned out to be mentally challenged, lololol boy do i have bad judgement, he talked ok, i couldnt tell, but wow i was so in shock when i met him, lol, and he was very young, id say 20 years old, he also insisted he was nice to look at.
MM | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 3/28/2005 4:40:11 PM | | yes I met someone from here with no pic at all ...he was a really nice looking man....really sweet too...we talked on the phone for awhile then met...the age difference in the end begin to bother me....I just felt like in the long run I would be holding him back..he emailed me again this year...and is overseas...I hope we can remain friends...he was really a nice man | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 3/28/2005 5:23:57 PM | I've met a girl from here with no pic at all once. We spoke on the phone a few times and even though she insisted she was fat I still agreed to go out for a coffee with her and boy was a surprised. This time in a good way!! She was totally not fat and I was attracted to her + she was greek!!
I wouldnt post a pic on my profile but I do have pics for whoever is interested enough to see.
I'm not the shallow type, I would message or reply to msgs sent from people with no pics on their profiles.
But What I dont get in this day and age is how some people have no pics whatsoever online or on their pc, its not a very hard thing to do. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 3/28/2005 5:54:35 PM | Come to think of it, all 3 guys I've met from online I didn't see a picture first! Wow...
Two were from Yahoo a long time ago, and last year a guy a coworker was trying to hook me up with. We chatted via email and then phone for a long time before we met. None of them were bad looking or weird really. Just no 'spark'...
I'm always interested in remaining friends but, for some reason, if it's going nowhere beyond that, they just don't put up the effort. Ha! Guess we all know why that is...
Beth | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 3/28/2005 6:02:45 PM | Why I do not talk to people with no pics:
-- it is not fair for them to see me and me not see them
-- if they end up being a creepy stalker I want to know what they look like
-- when we meet people in real life, we see what they look like
-- I am here to find people I am attracted to... if I do not know what they look like then I do not know if I am attracted to them
-- worst case scenario: they do not have pic cause they are married/have gf and they do not want their significant other to see them using dating services | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 3/28/2005 6:20:14 PM | | Glad your experience was a good one, Bosslady. I met a woman online a few years ago and we chatted for a good few months. When we decided to meet I still hadn't seen a pic of her. She said she wasn't crazy about being photographed because of her weight. She was a bbw. But I didn't really care, and I hopped in my car and drove down to Cleveland. Yup, she wasn't petite, that's for sure. It didn't matter. She was a great lady and we had a two year relationship. | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 3/28/2005 8:57:41 PM | | kanuk...well I did a very stupid thing and let him come to my home...I was very lucky he was not some weirdo...so when he drove up in the car he told me he was going to be driving I knew it was him...but I will say...I will never let another soul know where I live...I learned from another experience that its not a wise thing to do...thank goodness I had my cell phone in hand and pressed my best friends number...she came flying over and helped me get rid of the weirdo...I learned my lesson..... from then on i meet people in a public places... | |
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 3/28/2005 10:22:46 PM | Yes.
We talked for abit and became good friends. I knew that were she not to be sexy in my eyes, we coudl still hav efuin and be, if nothing else, AWESOME buds. I repsetced her, and at the vbery worst, made a good ally and friend.
And..
She was smoking.
Many people dont put pics up JUST TO SEE who the shallow sobs are out there. I used to do the same. I also posted abad pic of me once, then about 3mths later posted an ab shot of myself andf apic that made me look cute. (we all have god nbad pics) Many of the girls that treated me rawe, called me names,. or simply ignored me came back kissin my ass and teeling me how much they loved my ad, and agreed with my statements/shared interest etc. THE EXACT AD I HAD UP THERE BEFORE>
(I simply told my online buds who the shallow easy girls were) Wanna get laid; show yer abs. ;)
No problem.
So,ya; if I like you and you can keep my attention, intrigue me, and make me sure that we can get along and enjoy eahc otehrs company no matter what...YOU GOT A DATE!
Mind you, if I am not at all attracted to you, the date may not go super long unless we're doin something super fun as a distraction or mutual enjoyment. ;)
That being said; I do also prefer to see some pictures "most" of the time so I can know all of you, or enough to make a decision on "dating eligibility n such"
Heck, it's not like I will onluy be friends with hot chicks..like come on!! THAT would be cheating myself of some VERY good friends!
Lie to me and its over though or..... pain for you when yer lie is turned into a spear which turns back into your soul.
And for the girl who said a guy can do anything to her if he is larger....dont you meet up in public first? Like HELLO!!!
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| Has anyone been brave enough to meet someone with no pic at all?
Posted: 3/28/2005 10:43:51 PM |
If, indeed, it even is a waste of time.
I never think it is a waste of time to meet someone interesting, which is why I don't care about seeing a pic. But not all men feel that way, and it can lead to an uncomfortable meetings. | |
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