How About A Legit Dating Site?
It's common knowledge (and if it's not, WAKE THE FUCK UP) that online dating sites typically do anything in their power to make you pony up and pay to communicate. I have firsthand knowledge of many sites and their fraudulent activities, from not cancelling memberships to paying good looking people to model for profiles, to flat out making fake profiles.
Each site I look at is at least $25/month*. Most sites are more. The way that I handle any site is I look through every realistic profile I can - distance, attraction level, everything - until I have gone through and messaged, bookmarked or somehow otherwise noted every possible profile I might be interested in.
Funny how a lot of websites highlight "hot locals" but when you see their "last online" date it's weeks or months ago - hardly a "hot" local, if they haven't even been around. Online dating may be a craze and may be successful for a lot of people, but so far I've hardly received any replies to messages, and trust me - I send a lot. When I do get a reply, it's bland or in the case of the last couple - actually insulting.
You may think I'm a jaded, bitter fuck, based on this website, but I approach each situation with hope, and the pictures and profile I post on these sites is one of a decent guy who isn't ugly, but in that big pool of "cute" and who is easygoing and enjoys just about anything. I usually add something in to show a little bit of my sense of humor - as that is one thing almost universally noted by women as being desirable. However, nothing really seems to work.
So with that, I've done my perusal of one site today, exhausted it, and am tired of browsing dating sites for the day; so unless I get an email, perhaps tomorrow I will have enough patience to try again with a different site. It would be nice to know I'm not wasting my time though writing fake profiles or other filler.
* Yes, I know plentyoffish is free. Downside: that means it is full of 100x more douchebags flooding the inboxes of women.