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The_Face_of_Boo
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02 Jul 2011, 8:57 am

^^ that would attract pedobears!!


Anyways, my fake account received a 6th initial message (I never send messages with it), from a few years older lady saying how handsome he is and she wants to teach him things because she knows a lot O_O.



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02 Jul 2011, 8:59 am

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Everyone already knows this happens.
Why even bother?


Well, I heard a lot of theories, from the ladies mostly, saying that the good looks don't make much difference for the guys's chances, but personality and success do.

So far I am seeing they were very wrong.


Btw, on the favorite movies section I've put "The God's father" instead of the "The Godfather", just to show a negligible intellect value with other few typos just to make him sound a little dumb. I didn't even make him look social, his matching rating is very close to mine.

I also made him sound kinda of geek (a sexy geek!) : English (Okay), Arabic (Fluently), French (Okay), C++ (Okay), and working as a Mechanical Engineer, yet very into gym.

I am not sure how much difference did this, but this fake account (and it's not even interacting with others or replying to messages!! !) is still far more successful than my real one.


I've also noticed that the fake accounts gets female visitors from...all sides of the globe, while mine only gets local visitors .... and few Filipinos.



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02 Jul 2011, 10:13 am

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Well, I heard a lot of theories, from the ladies mostly, saying that the good looks don't make much difference for the guys's chances, but personality and success do.
So far I am seeing they were very wrong.


Women often say that. They want a guy with a good sense of humour and a warm personality. I can't say I've noticed either in Brad Pitt. Personally I reckon it's because they don't want to come across as shallow.

Ladies, you ARE shallow. You're no better than the menfolk!

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Btw, on the favorite movies section I've put "The God's father" instead of the "The Godfather", just to show a negligible intellect value with other few typos just to make him sound a little dumb. I didn't even make him look social, his matching rating is very close to mine.


Conclusion - people don't read those bits. The picture is the biggest impact.

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I also made him sound kinda of geek (a sexy geek!) : English (Okay), Arabic (Fluently), French (Okay), C++ (Okay), and working as a Mechanical Engineer, yet very into gym.


I definitely wanna date him now. :D

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I've also noticed that the fake accounts gets female visitors from...all sides of the globe, while mine only gets local visitors .... and few Filipinos.


Interesting. And possibly a sign of skewed results - most of those visitors are clearly not interested in meeting up.

Ultimately, however, your sample of women is not entirely respresentative of women in general. These are women who have signed up to a dating site. They're the sort who'll screen prospective dates based on a picture and a few lines of text rather than anything real. While some will respond based on a genuine interest, many on there are flirtatious numpties who are only interested in handsome guys for a meaningless fling. They're not after a relationship, they're not even after the sex. They just want to show off.



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02 Jul 2011, 1:00 pm

someone did this on WP once - he started a thread with an obviously fake pic of a beautiful woman and said he wanted to date someone and didn't really care who. i think "she" asked for PMs from potential mates, and got quite a few responses. the guy came clean about it in a roundabout way in a thread later on.

5 responses over a few months is not that high though. maybe try it with other variables, like a very unhandsome man (according to stereotypes) with an undynamic personality and little education... with a very high income.


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02 Jul 2011, 1:10 pm

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5 responses over a few months is not that high though. maybe try it with other variables,


They were not responses, they were introductory messages, big difference, girls usually never approach guys.

And 5 introductory messages is something huge for a site where Lebanese are very few: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt163256.html



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02 Jul 2011, 1:12 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
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5 responses over a few months is not that high though. maybe try it with other variables,


They were not responses, they were introductory messages, big difference, girls usually never approach guys.

And 5 introductory messages is something huge for a site where Lebanese are very few: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt163256.html

ok, well if you think it is high... try it with other variables. you're comparing only one variable and it isn't enough data to draw any firm conclusions.


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19 Aug 2011, 12:30 pm

I always find 1 to 3 pms when i sign in that account once in a while, despite its very poor activity.

A pm I received on my sexy fake account:

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hey...you're first guy i ever text.. Actually its ma first initiative ever.. So i feel a bit shy :) anyway i loved ur honesty.. Im not sure if u would find ur girl ever in this country :) good luck


Yea...right.... his pic makes him look very honest. :lmao:



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19 Aug 2011, 3:50 pm

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19 Aug 2011, 7:46 pm

oh come on, you can't compare online dating sites to the real-life dating scene and expect anyone to take it seriously. ok-cupids and craigslists of this world are full of scumbag fakery and it in no way reflects what is actually going on in the real world.


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19 Aug 2011, 8:00 pm

anna-banana wrote:
oh come on, you can't compare online dating sites to the real-life dating scene and expect anyone to take it seriously. ok-cupids and craigslists of this world are full of scumbag fakery and it in no way reflects what is actually going on in the real world.


True, I had a guy that faked his pic but I overlooked it and continued to chat to see what he was really like. When I eventually did ask for his real pic the chats stopped.



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19 Aug 2011, 8:00 pm

haha, I did something like this a few years ago. I didn't make a handsome dude profile, though...I made a jockish, a-hole, jerk profile. I answered all the questions in the most selfish way I could think. And yes, I got quite a number of inquiries too!

But now I realize that this is really a self-selective process. Yeah...I got a lot of responses, but are those women I'd really want to date? No.

I could make a profile of an ugly dude and state that my bankroll was +$250k, and I know I'd get profile hits. That doesn't prove anything, because you know what? I've also made an honest profile on OkC, stated quite plainly that I had Asperger's. With this, I also got a number of responses -- sure not as many as the jock-ish dude, but that only shows me that the pool of women I want to date is smaller.



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22 Aug 2011, 10:48 pm

Yep, in the online dating world, guys with attractive profile pictures will get horny desperate girls messaging them out of nowhere. If your pictures are dull, then you better hope you have an extremely sexy profile. I'm sure there are girls out there who are sexually attracted to good sexy text. :lol: