This is how the general personal ad goes. I think there's a template cause they all look the same to me.

Picture = some glamour shot taken several years ago, you don't look like that, don't lie. Photoshop doesn't actually change your real appearance just the photo so stop lying to me and to yourself.

My name is blah blah blah, I'm a (insert age here, add 5 years for any age over 30, add 8 for over 40, subtract 3 for 18-21 to find the real age) year old (insert sex here, if i can't tell from the picture it's a major turnoff, no trannies for me, I've learned my lesson...well, at least no pre-op trannies) I work at .....nobody really cares where you work unless you make a crap load of money, or defy death on a regular basis (wanting to kill your coworkers but not doing so does not constitute defying death).

My activities include (first guess....writing boring ass personal ads, these are just a list of things that someone is going to use to pretend that they're too busy to date you...ie I have yoga class tonight so I can't see you).

I graduated from (look, only your mom and your employer really gives a s^&*, is anyone out there saying well you're cool, and I love your sense of humor but Duke dropped 108 points on my alma mater last night so don't ever call me again).

I'm looking for a (don't tell me what you're looking for, tell me what you'd settle for it's much more realistic). Honesty...trust me, you don't want me to be too honest you just want me to tell you what you want to hear, it's a tad ironic that you'd lie about this. Besides how do you think a liar would answer this question?

Then comes my favorite lists, compassion, sensitivity, someone to listen to me, someone to share my heart with....okay okay we all get the hint....you're into women, why didn't you just say so in the first place?

Then comes my favorite lists, compassion, sensitivity, someone to listen to me, someone to share my heart with....okay okay we all get the hint....you're into women, why didn't you just say so in the first place?

i needed the smile.. thanks

that how my turkeys bound to look tomorrow,,, you know... after a few drinks...

And the cynicism award goes to....drum roll please..........GEEK.

Jeeeeees!!!

Yeah it's all in jest, but every joke has a smattering of truth to it.

Women complain that guys don't read their profiles, just look at the pic and send a cookie cutter email to them. I'm sure a lot of women here can attest to that.

I like reading a profile that shows a sense of humor rather than just says oh I'm funny, I'm this I'm that. It just gives me a sense of, would I like to get to know this person or not?

It's less important for most people what the person does for a living, or where they went to school. I have lots of friends who don't like the same stuff I do. These are simply things people like to do, we don't fall for people because of similarities in activities but rather for similarities of the soul, having compatible values, being able to laugh at and with one another. Show who you are not just what you do in a profile. (yeah yeah, mine ain't done, barely started but that's cause I'm trying to put real thought into it).

Fine you want serious, there ya go. Now back to having a lighthearted laugh.

Well then apparantely I'm the only honest female here... my pics are all within the last few months to a year (except for the one form when I was a baby...). I am 23 and have NO reason to lie about my age since I'm perfectly legal for all activities...
I have photoshop but have NO idea how to use it...lol... so there goes that idea. HAHA, if I did I'd have MUCH larger boobies in my pics...

now--whare can i find them evil turkey at?---HEB?--what?

*fans herself*

Shadowdog is sexy...

Period.

Nice post. Just do what I do...take a retarded pic of yourself, write a short bit of nothing on your profile, don't say who you are or what you're looking for... And watch the emails come flooding in. Works like a charm.

You think I LIKE saying I'm fifty? Not everyone lies about their age....but I suppose the liars are out there, too.

Then comes my favorite lists, compassion, sensitivity, someone to listen to me, someone to share my heart with....okay okay we all get the hint....you're into women, why didn't you just say so in the first place?

Great post. I'm so gonna use that format on my page now.

Well you could just put...I'll fill this in later DUH
Later Gator

My pics are current. I try to give some personality to my profile. How do you know if you might be a "match" if it's the same ol same ol stuff.

I just looked at your page, laci... now I know why you were being a bit defensive

I hear what y'all are saying...
Cookie-cutter profiles suck... nobody is generic... we all have something that makes us who we are...
HOWEVER, I do know that some people have trouble with self-expression... and others simply are nervous. Selling yourself on a personal ad isn't exactly the easiest thing to do. Some people have a hard enough time expressing themselves in real life.

It takes people from all walks of life.

And to mention their job... maybe that's all they have going right now. Hell... it's an icebreaker. You have to start with the common stuff no matter how boring or mundane it sounds... and work your way from there.

If you are to honest in your profile.You don't get any e-mails or the ones that you do get,you wish you haven't.Maybe that's why I hsven't gotten very many e-mails.I'm to honest for my own good.that's what dad tells me.

If you are to honest in your profile.You don't get any e-mails or the ones that you do get,you wish you haven't.Maybe that's why I hsven't gotten very many e-mails.I'm to honest for my own good.that's what dad tells me.

Yes, but honesty is the best way to go. You may not get as many emails in response, but to lie and pretend to be someone you're not- what will that resolve? If you do meet someone off the profile you've lied about then you have to spend time either pretending to be someone you're not OR admitting that you lied about yourself and hoping the other person can forgive. I dunno... I personally would rather tell the truth and get no emails than tell a bunch of tall tales and then have to come clean after the fact.