I always say thay if it's OK to criticize something that's bad, then you should also be open and honest about it when you see something done well.



She's smarter than I am (although she won't admit it), so I'm not sure she's really all that impressed!

By the way, if I was still involved in music, I would steal that "Intellectual Foreplay" and use it for the name of my next band!



I have mentioned a few times that most of the women's profiles I've read here seem to have been appropriated directly from "Dating Site Profiles for Dummies." I look (in vain) for signs of originality, of thought, of intelligence, and.....pfffffffftt. I get "No game players." Thanks, that's helpful.

And maybe it's just me, but the only way I'm going to be impressed with a profile is if there's some content, something that make me think, or laugh, or, at the very least, makes me want to know more about that person.

And "I don't know what to write here" just doesn't cut it.

I think I've seen three profiles in the last month that had any "pull" at all. And several hundred that were markedly less interesting than the ingredients list on the Planters Peanuts jar.



Exactly, and it would be nice if at least one or two of those questions could be covered (or, at least, obliquely alluded to) somewhere in the profile. But that almost never happens.

In fact, one of the reasons my profile is 1432 pages long is as a deliberate protest against these "nothing" profiles that proliferate through my Mutual Match candidates....

Are the guys' profiles that bad, too? I can honestly say I have no real frame of reference here, since I generally only look at or comment on guys' profiles when specifically asked to do so....

once in a while,and i tried to be clear in my profile what i was looking for,and something about me.

mirror quit lovin up the neighborhood

I can understand where you're coming from, but I also take into account that some people are new to this and just don't really know how to talk about themselves. Or talk themselves up. Maybe they don't remember the big words they were taught in college or high school or whatever happens to be the last grade they completed. But that doesn't mean they're not intelligent. As for grammar, puncuation, and spelling, though it is nice to read something that's well written, everybody makes mistakes.

I'd much rather take into account what a person is trying to get across, not how they typed it. Of course, if it's atrociously bad, then yeah, it's a little harder to overlook. Still, how does it go? "Judge not lest ye be judged?" (And yes, I'm aware I probably screwed that up.)

Then there's the beauty of the whole dating concept. If you find you have something in common with someone that causes you to want to continue on with the association, great! If not, you don't have to. Simple.

I do have to say, however, that I appreciate all the responses to my vent, and no longer have any concerns. I'll be happy to just click the delete button and move on, without any irritation whatsoever to whomever's disregard for anything I had previously written.

Good luck to everyone! And sorry to any of those I may have offended. Have a great day.

I read, and ignore.
most dont respond, and the ones who do, do so lame.
So I do as I feel.