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Posted: 4/15/2007 10:06:29 PM | a person views your profile. Ok, am I the only one that this feature is driving crazy. So you get to view whos viewed you. Which is kindof cool in a way. Then it sucks. I dont know about you but dont you wonder? This person views your profile, and then nothing. Are they looking because they are interested? Or are they looking in hopes that you saw that they looked at you and you are the brave one to contact them? Are they being just curious about who is behind the picture thats posted? Any takers on this one? | |
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Posted: 4/15/2007 10:09:12 PM | That really depends, it could of been age, looks, name alais given, who knows...
The mere ct of them clicking on your profile to view you at least minimally means they show some interest in you, otherwise they would have never clicked on your profile. ;) | |
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Posted: 4/15/2007 10:12:55 PM | | you can set your profile on the mail setting to make it so people don't know if you viewed their page. But in all honesty, I think that's one of the main features that puts people in contact with each other. | |
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Posted: 4/15/2007 10:13:11 PM | I know, drives me nuts too. I'll view them, and if I'm interested, screw it!!! Throw caution to the wind and message them!!! | |
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Posted: 4/15/2007 10:14:03 PM |
Are they looking because they are interested? Or are they looking in hopes that you saw that they looked at you and you are the brave one to contact them? Are they being just curious about who is behind the picture thats posted? Any takers on this one?
They probably just found you through a local search or read one of your posts and decided to check out your profile. It's always interesting when they don't contact you, but they still put you on their favorite's list.  | |
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Posted: 4/15/2007 10:17:18 PM | When someone views your profile it doesn't necessarily mean they are viewing out of interest. I'd say 7 out of 10 times your profile is viewed it's because they read a post you made in the thread area and they're curious about the person that made a comment.
Don't read too much into someone viewing your profile. I'm truly not sure what the purpose of this feature is because it only leaves people with questions such as you have. They look at your profile, out of curiousity you look at theirs and neither of you took a chance and contacted the other...so, what good did that do? Nada | |
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Posted: 4/15/2007 10:18:42 PM |
It's always interesting when they don't contact you, but they still put you on their favorite's list.
Nah, that's something I do as well (think of it as a smile from across the room if it were real life). It could also be taken as a way to find a profile later when you have more time to write. What REALLY puzzles me is when someone adds you to their favorites, and the next time you see them online you send an e-mail which is read then deleted (but you're still on their list days later). | |
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Posted: 4/15/2007 10:22:04 PM | Oh just message the person whe viewed you.
Whether or not they reply to the message you send them is what really matters.
and I must keep typing cause even though I said everything that needed to be said...my message was too short. | |
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Posted: 4/15/2007 10:23:31 PM | if someone views your profile, the only thing it means is: the person looked at your profile
sheeesh threads like this are the reason I prefer to keep my "allow the person to see you viewed them" turned off.
too many people have too many ideas about what viewing a profile means. | |
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Posted: 4/15/2007 10:30:42 PM | i view them sometimes because i cant see the freakin pic they have posted in the thumbnail...LOL....
so how bout them profiles? i think they will win this year....tryin to fill up this box per POF regs ...lmfao!
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Posted: 4/15/2007 10:34:19 PM |
if someone views your profile, the only thing it means is: the person looked at your profile
agreed...that's the only thing you can be sure it means. if they don't message you, AND YOU LIKED WHAT YOU SAW, you will have to message them, and see what develops. go ahead...take the chance. what's the worst that could happen? unread/deleted? oh, boo hoo. 
When someone views your profile it doesn't necessarily mean they are viewing out of interest. I'd say 7 out of 10 times your profile is viewed it's because they read a post you made in the thread area and they're curious about the person that made a comment.
no...don't think so. only a small percent of pof'ers use the forums. it's far more likely that the person checked out your profile to see if you were compatible. maybe they thought no, or are too shy to send a mail, or....who knows??? | |
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Posted: 4/15/2007 10:48:57 PM | 1. They aren't interested.
2. They saw you post somewhere and were only checking to see where you are from and get a bit of background.
3. They may think that you wouldn't be interested in them. Just look at all the threads about not getting responses after attempts to contact. | |
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Posted: 4/15/2007 10:50:33 PM | To be honest I rarely look at the viewed me section.. it is usually only an after thought when I am bored of the available forums, lol...
What does it mean? As others have pointed out.. that someone has looked at you.. so? I could kind of care less for the most part, lol
I also get a kick out of the fact that now you can look at ALL of the available pics of someone in your "viewed me" page without even commiting to looking at their profile... that made me laugh hysterically..
I don't care if people see that I looked at them.. it doesn't necessarily mean that I am interested.. anything they are assuming is on them, not me...
I mean really.. if someone is interested, they'll write you an email.. right? | |
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Posted: 4/15/2007 10:52:30 PM | Most people don't buy every item they look at when they're shopping.
Same theory applies. | |
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Posted: 4/15/2007 10:54:51 PM | i check out the viewed me section every once in awhile and if i see someone that interests me, i email them. i usually say something in a teasing manner about their profile though - i never even mention the viewed me thing. every single one has written back with interest.
maybe sometimes people are just too shy to write you. | |
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Posted: 4/15/2007 11:07:54 PM | | anytime some one reads into the "viewed me" thing more than just the typical "they looked at me"... is reading way WAY too much into things. No, they arent ready to propose marriage to you... | |
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Posted: 4/15/2007 11:25:01 PM | i'm with sassy aquarius and humor monger...
i don't read too much into it, but not in a literal sense
i mean there's like 40000 pople on here at any one time, so if i picture just a big huge bar, say, with all of us in it, I'm sure there's gonna be some looking around...
i thought this was what made this site fun
i read a forum post, i check her out...then i notice she checks to see who it was that checked her out...i think it's great fun
or i get an email from some far away distant place and suddenly youcheck her profile and you spot a bevy of beauties along the top row along with hers...of course i'm gonna check them out..and i sit and read profiles or i get turned off one and cllick on the next...I'm sorry am I doing something wrong here?
gawd I'll look under every rock if thats what it takes to find a partner...
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Posted: 4/15/2007 11:38:54 PM | | well i look at profiles for a lot more reasons then just being interested in the person . sometimes i have seen their post in forums and am curious about them .sometimes they have a shocking or funny photo and i go into their profile to get a better look. sometimes you read a whole profile through and see a lot of what they wrote are things you just dont agree with or care for. think of it as being out in public . people look at you it usually means nothing most of the time . there are times though when i see a picture of a really good looking guy but would never contact him because he is way out of my league. | |
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Posted: 4/16/2007 12:12:22 AM | Hi,
I think most of the reasons why have been said already. It is pretty simple.
I live in the Oregon and got some from England and Canada in the Viewed Me area. I was curious about this and found out they were just doing searches and was curious with my photo so they checked it out more.
This got me going. I started doing this with the picture bar you see when you view someone’s profile. I would pick one I hadn’t seen before, check them out, look at the bar of photos above their profile and go on from there. I started out here in Tigard, OR, and ended up in Vancouver, CA, which was kind of cool.
I think also that the people that put you in their favorites with out every contacting you could be due to how they are shopping around? POF does not have a Keep This One In Mind on HOLD while I shop around so I can come back later thing. I don’t do this but I think some guys have as I have read in some profiles by ladies about this same thing, they don’t know most of the people that have put them in their favorites.
I think that if you are here on POF you are most likely looking to meet someone so having your profile viewed should be the expected moment of the day. Even if you are here just for the forums.
I rarely check out ones without pictures unless they are local or viewed me, because it is less than half the ordeal without a face. I don’t understand the no picture thing, unless the poster is really ignorant about digital cameras, and or taking their own photos to a Kinko’s or some other copier place and scan them saved to mem stick. I do notice that most of the profiles with no pictures say they are over weight or with extra weight. From past experience most ladies are too harsh on themselves about that and usually aren’t as heavy as they think they are. Some are, so you have that but why not post a picture anyway. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and you may miss that one, or many, that find you attractive.
Viewing profiles is interesting as in those bar photos they are usually squished, out of focus, or stretched and when you view the profile you get to see the pictures better, and the other pictures on that profile too. Some are funny and others seem to post almost the same picture maybe eight times, with just a slight difference in each. I planned on have a close up facial, body length and maybe a couple outside for proportion. I was in a hurry and the only one that came out well was the facial and that is in bad lighting and shows my blotchy skin because I used aloe vera as a pack and then lotion and took the pictures. The aloe vera was going beneath the top layers of skin and healing, leaving things blotchy. I will redo my photos, soon, I think, I should so most likely I will.
I do know that I only had four viewed me entries without any photos in my profile. As soon as I posted some bam it has been a steady kind of thing to see who is new in the Viewed Me area. Rarely do I get any responses and I think it is because they may expect the guy to do the first contact, even though they may have done it already by viewing me. Maybe, like a form of flirting like someone earlier stated.
I like that feature with the amount of photos in their profile so you can just click on that if you don’t have the time to go to their profile. I do use a 56K modem dial up so it takes some time compared to higher broadband.
Thanks,
Eddie | |
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Posted: 4/16/2007 1:03:20 AM | It's interesting that women can't see which other women viewed them
Same for the guys, of course
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Posted: 4/16/2007 1:13:52 AM | I have been really curious about it too since they added the "who's viewed me" feature to the site. Its flattering to an extent when you do get a steady flow of views but then it makes you wonder why they didn't send a message. I know my profile is relatively short and to the point but I don't like to "sell myself", this is a dating site not a job interview!
I do the same thing though, so the girl i'm viewing is probably wondering why I didn't send HER a message lol........ahhh the dating world is so confusing, even online. Its hard to assume anything in relation to this topic, I have viewed profiles and been shy or hesitant to send a message due to past "read/deleted" experiences but then there have been other occasions where I lost interest after reading a profile and that was the reason I didn't mail. Most times the connection is formed through chats and emails anyway so its the interest section I pay attention to most in a profile. I guess its best to keep things simple and assume that views mean nothing although there have been times I have used the feature as a flirt tool in the hope that the woman contacts me . | |
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Posted: 4/16/2007 1:29:07 AM |
if someone views your profile, the only thing it means is: the person looked at your profile
Which of course begs the question "for how long?". | |
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Posted: 4/16/2007 4:13:51 AM | It seems no matter what feature is added here there's always someone it seems to downright throw into a major confused state of mind!! LOL
BEFORE the Viewed Me thing was added we had the Favorites List which caused this same sort of "I wonder WHY..........?' post after post here.
Whenever I find an interesting post by someone I've not seen before I'll click on their profile to get an idea about that person---naturally I'd show up in their Viewed Me list. If that person has anything about them I like I'll add them to my Favorites List. There's really nothing more to it than that.
Several women on either list have emailed me and I've done the same and for the most part nothing has ever come of that------which is no problem. I don't think so far it's offended anyone----I've had no complaints anyway.
I can't understand why either of these features cause this much concern for people who post about it. It's been done a 100 times but yet keeps cropping up like it's a new discovery!! LOL | |
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Posted: 4/16/2007 7:08:41 AM |
I can't understand why either of these features cause this much concern for people who post about it.
yes this one baffles me for sure as well...not to be like mr. spock, but this seems highly illogical...
i did up a profile on here hoping it woud get looked at...and now to complain that it did get looked at...sorry..that's just completely illogical
squiffy, i'm kind glad of the unisex feature...a lot of men, I'm sure would get a little antsy seeing guys checking guys out, but again, the reasons for me it's twofold...
1) i want to see what other men are saying on their profiles just to see what other men are saying on their profiles
2) when someone writes a good post in a forum, i always go check who that cat was that just wrote that...usually pretty interesting forum pieces are written by people with some pretty interesting backgrounds...
'''i just throw it all in the "live and learn' category | |
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Posted: 4/16/2007 7:21:59 AM | | Well I don't know if I need a bigger monitor, but those tiny thumbnail squares are hard to see! I click on them a lot in searches or "my matches" because from a distance something catches my eye, or they have a funny headline or thoughtful post or something....opening it up usually doesn't manifest a possibility, lol.... What on earth are we here for if not to look? | |
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