This might serve some of youse out there as a way to tell who's who and what you might be getting when you decide to click on a personals profile. It is sooo eerily true :ill:

http://www.buttafly.com/originals/friendster2.php

Online personals are like a box of chocolates --- you never know what you're gonna get.

If only I could squeeze the merchandise before I get to take it home... :D

Yeah, but if you are just looking for friendship --- what does it matter?

From reading people's profiles, even the ones looking for friends wouldn't mind a cut on the sly if the opportunity is there and make real sure to put what exactly they are looking for physically in their potential "friends."

Dangerous, possibly a pirate

:lol:LMAO!:laugh:

Those cracked me up. :laugh:

Photo Type: Dark, brooding
What They Want You To Think: Doesn't Care
The Truth: Dangerous, possibly a pirate

:lol: ARRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol:

:lol::laugh::lol: Hilarious! :thumb:

Those are quite spot-on, as has been my experience! ;) :lol:

DANG! I hope I NEVER have to date again! :yikes:

Damn, that was hilarious. :lol:

Well my secret is out :uhoh:

I really should play the lottery. It's a small world out there and I would have never imagined in my many years of strange and bad luck this would happen.

I placed an ad on Yahoo! personals hoping to meet new people in the SD area. At the same time, I registered a new Yahoo! e-mail address with a fake name - except this "fake" name was from someone I went to middle school with 13 years ago. I didn't think it a big deal that the name I used was from a female since all I needed was a random name to register a new e-mail address. I could change it later to something else. I've used random names to get e-mail addresses before and for this instance I thought it a good idea to use a fake name since you never really know who you encounter on-line. There are way too many horror stories about psychos and weirdos and liars.

Well, I get a reply from a local girl whose singles ad reads a lot like mine! Seriously! The whole first half of her ad reads like something I would have written! Even the title she used was a title I was considering to use for mine!! Anyway, the story doesn't end there. I gave her my e-mail address and she contacts me. A couple of days later, I reply back to her nonchalantly. This morning I get this weird e-mail from her that reads like it was written in a tone of shock and disbelief. It turns out the name I used to register my e-mail address is the name of one of her personal friends. The eeriness doesn't stop there since this personal friend of hers is most likely the same person I went to school with 13 years ago! At this point, I may as well fall into the same category I was weary about: I am now one of those cyber-weirdos/stalkers :ill:

F**K! This is the kind of thing that happens to me all the freakin' time! If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all. Think about it: Of the THOUSANDS of people I can encounter on-line at any time and the THOUSANDS of people in this area, this one knows the random name I picked for an e-mail address which came from my distant past. Talk about 6 degrees of XXX :lol: Sooo... anyone wanna go to Vegas with me :confused:

I really should play the lottery. It's a small world out there and I would have never imagined in my many years of strange and bad luck this would happen.

I placed an ad on Yahoo! personals hoping to meet new people in the SD area. At the same time, I registered a new Yahoo! e-mail address with a fake name - except this "fake" name was from someone I went to middle school with 13 years ago. I didn't think it a big deal that the name I used was from a female since all I needed was a random name to register a new e-mail address. I could change it later to something else. I've used random names to get e-mail addresses before and for this instance I thought it a good idea to use a fake name since you never really know who you encounter on-line. There are way too many horror stories about psychos and weirdos and liars.

Well, I get a reply from a local girl whose singles ad reads a lot like mine! Seriously! The whole first half of her ad reads like something I would have written! Even the title she used was a title I was considering to use for mine!! Anyway, the story doesn't end there. I gave her my e-mail address and she contacts me. A couple of days later, I reply back to her nonchalantly. This morning I get this weird e-mail from her that reads like it was written in a tone of shock and disbelief. It turns out the name I used to register my e-mail address is the name of one of her personal friends. The eeriness doesn't stop there since this personal friend of hers is most likely the same person I went to school with 13 years ago! At this point, I may as well fall into the same category I was weary about: I am now one of those cyber-weirdos/stalkers :ill:

F**K! This is the kind of thing that happens to me all the freakin' time! If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all. Think about it: Of the THOUSANDS of people I can encounter on-line at any time and the THOUSANDS of people in this area, this one knows the random name I picked for an e-mail address which came from my distant past. Talk about 6 degrees of XXX :lol: Sooo... anyone wanna go to Vegas with me :confused:


LMAO

That figures something like that would happen.



Me and Coco would go to Vegas with you.

I gotta stop using other people's names to register e-mail addresses. If I do that again I'm liable to get hit by lightning :D And it didn't ever dawn on me that people would think it shady that I would even use female names sometimes, so I'm just a lightning rod for not being able to use common sense :thumb:

LOL!

Guy with beard sitting on couch

Sits on the couch a lot, has a beard

Sits on the couch a lot, has a beard :laugh:

Word of advice to XXX: Using a chicks email addy to hit on women through the personals probably isn't in your best interest! :lol:

Photo Type: Dark, brooding
What They Want You To Think: Doesn't Care
The Truth: Dangerous, possibly a pirate

:lol: ARRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol:
:laugh: LMAO! Thats the first thing that popped in my head when I read that!!:lol:

Word of advice to XXX: Using a chicks email addy to hit on women through the personals probably isn't in your best interest! :lol:

I know :p Too late now for that. That little incident cost me 20 bucks. One day I should publish the accounts of what goes on in personals ads and recoup that money :D It makes for great fodder if I was an Improv amateur comedian. Like there was the one time I got messaged by a lady who looked like Chris Farley in drag at americansingles :ill: AS was worth the 25 bucks I paid since every night on that chat Chester and Katsbaaak (the local hackers) roast someone mercilessly :)

New topic within a topic!

What do you guys and gals think of personal ads to meet people? Good, bad, worth it, or worthless? Anyone have any experiences they'd like to share?

So far, for me, I'd say worthless. Hmmm. I went in there expecting to get nothing out of it and haven't been disappointed yet. There are some ads there that are just outrageously too good to be true... makes me think they're either 1. Not the real deal or fake 2. Looking for something other than meeting people (see number 1) 3. An ego boost 4. The packaging may look good on the outside, but who knows what kind of person they really are :ill: (PoisonGirl can attest to this since she brought it up to me). The rest of the ads are either from people who live reeeeaaally far and/or from people who are looking for friends, but who specifically look for physically-attractive people (I'm guilty of that myself...).

I was talking to my roommate this afternoon about this and know I'm beginnning to think it's not a positive reinforcement for one's character to be so impersonal about meeting new people the way it's done on-line. I used to say it's because I have a busy schedule, but I think if I tried even harder in the real world I wouldn't have to deal with the weirdness that on-line encompasses and avoid utterly embarrassing situations like the one that happened this morning (not that something similar couldn't happen in the real world, but still...). Technology has it's pros, but in my instance I think there's quite a few cons to ponder. I think the next time I'm investing in a salsa dancing class :D

New topic within a topic!

What do you guys and gals think of personal ads to meet people? Good, bad, worth it, or worthless? Anyone have any experiences they'd like to share?

So far, for me, I'd say worthless. Hmmm. I went in there expecting to get nothing out of it and haven't been disappointed yet. There are some ads there that are just outrageously too good to be true... makes me think they're either 1. Not the real deal or fake 2. Looking for something other than meeting people (see number 1) 3. An ego boost 4. The packaging may look good on the outside, but who knows what kind of person they really are :ill: (PoisonGirl can attest to this since she brought it up to me). The rest of the ads are either from people who live reeeeaaally far and/or from people who are looking for friends, but who specifically look for physically-attractive people (I'm guilty of that myself...).

I was talking to my roommate this afternoon about this and know I'm beginnning to think it's not a positive reinforcement for one's character to be so impersonal about meeting new people the way it's done on-line. I used to say it's because I have a busy schedule, but I think if I tried even harder in the real world I wouldn't have to deal with the weirdness that on-line encompasses and avoid utterly embarrassing situations like the one that happened this morning (not that something similar couldn't happen in the real world, but still...). Technology has it's pros, but in my instance I think there's quite a few cons to ponder. I think the next time I'm investing in a salsa dancing class :D


Or you could join Lava Life for free. ( Of course if you want to talk to someone it will cost you) But you can read profiles and see who are the local chicks in your area. Some might even send you messages or mail. You never know until you try.

But then you might meet a HOT chick in a salsa class. Whoo Hoo ;)

:lol: Those are funny!!!!!! I'd hate to see all of our avatars analyzed. :p

But then you might meet a HOT chick in a salsa class. Whoo Hoo ;)

I took Salsa classes last year & all the women in there (aside from me) were all over the age of 40 :D

americansingles :ill:

I signed up for tht when I first got my computer. You can't read any thing in your inbox or reply to anything unless you are a paying member. I refuse to pay for that crap. I do like to go look and see who is local. :D I did find a guy who i went to barber school with. I wish i could have sent him a message to see what he has been up to but as I said, you have to pay. :irked:

What do you guys and gals think of personal ads to meet people? Good, bad, worth it, or worthless? Anyone have any experiences they'd like to share?


I will never put out a personal add to meet people you just don't know what kind of weirdo you are going to get. I have had only one great experience out it and after that nothing can compete... so I wont even bother to try it again.



And why do you have to put out an add to meet chicks?

And why do you have to put out an add to meet chicks?

I dunno. I blame it on my youthful impulsiveness, my curiosity, my terrible laziness, my misconceptions about what it really is about, and, last but not least, my lack of common sense :D Excuses, excuses, I know. Just trying to avoid being shot down at the bars and clubs, but there's no way to go around that, I guess :p A guy will always have to bear the brunt of rejection. It's like they always say, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained" :)

When I asked people who use that service about it, a lot of them said the same thing: Their fear of face-to-face rejection and their shyness are part of their main drive for subscribing to the personals services (I'm guessing rejection on-line doesn't taste as sweet as it does in real time) and they would not have it any other way; they are convinced that "chatting" on-line will allow them to get to know the person better than if they were in a social setting (I'm ambivalent towards that view). There's also an overwhelming amount of people there who play into the statistics of such services. They are people who just came out of a relationship: Some peeps just can't bear being alone, much less feeling lonely; it was their previous relationship that defined their self-esteem, their mood, and confidence. The rest come off as socially inept for a variety of reasons - whether it's behavioral or physical or both - and don't have any other means of meeting people.



I took Salsa classes last year & all the women in there (aside from me) were all over the age of 40 :D

Images of The Graduate cross my mind. This place being La Jolla, I would imagine that an older lady taking a dance class would be of money too :p Hmmm. Shuggamomma :D ! AND even if there were a lot of middle aged women in your dance class... you were there, so one never knows ;) :* Sigh...