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1) People posting pictures from previous decades, even centuries as representations of themselves today.
2) Exaggerate their body type, size and shape which is hard as heck to extrapolate from a head shot alone.
3) Height. What happened to the other 5-6 vertical inches you claimed to have?
4) Damn, on the Internet you didn’t have bad breath!
5) Posted ages off by anywhere between 5 to 10...20 years!
6) Married men pretending to be single.
7) Failure to realize that chatting on Internet dating services doesn’t actually constitute a true career.
8) Playing people by chatting on the Internet and pretending to actually want to meet for real.
9) Here today/this moment and gone forever.
10) Difficult to read into people’s messages due to lack of expression and not being able to look into one’s eyes or read facial expressions. Damn…No polygraphs!
Of course there were good reasons for using the Internet which included; shopping from home for your ideal mate, using it anytime and anywhere and being able to meet the person of your dreams wearing your undies or nothing and truly not being an exhibitionist! Hey, can you beat that?
Most people we spoke with thought deception and distance were the greatest deterrents. Lying and false pretenses were overwhelming experiences for many users. On the other hand, when some finally thought they had met Mr. or Ms. Right, they lived in another city, state, province, country or time zone. This only led to further frustration. We found you could meet what you wanted just about for anything you wanted on-line. The cyber world really is open-season for dating, romance, friendship and sex! We even interviewed a dating service for married people, people looking to have an affair or spice up their marriage without including their spouse. It would seem everything is fair game on-line.
It would seem Internet dating requires much persistence, perseverance and panache! As we were told, “It’s only going to prove effective and successful as much as you are willing to put in the time and effort.” Gee, doesn’t this sound like training for an Olympic event?
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