knicks94 wrote:What I found out about online dating from personal experience:
1) It gives many women an advantage over men that they otherwise wouldn't have in the real world. Women who are 4's and 5's are treated as 9's and 10's on these platforms because there are twice as many men there looking for love as they are women.
2) A lot of women post outdated pics or photoshopped images of themselves, but when you meet them in person they look far from how they appear in these pics.
3) There are only a handful of decent women on dating platforms. The internet is saturated with women who are damaged goods and are competing with one another for the top 1 percent of men.
4) Watch out for catfishers: They are all over the internet, especially on platforms in which you don't have to pay a membership fee.If you begin to chat with someone who refuses to show themselves on camera or begins to ask you to send them money those are obvious red flags.
5) Never limit your options to online dating, unless you live in a secluded area in which there are no available women. Try and build your social skills with women in person in order to increase your chances of meeting the right one.
One thousand percent true. Almost every gal I met didn't look as good as her pictures (no one is going to put up their worst pic) and in some cases, unrecognizable. Surely this works both ways of course.
But yeah, back when I was living in Philly I had a date with this gal who had one picture up (that right there is no bueno). I walk into this TGIF and I see this totally unrecognizable woman frantically waving at me from a booth. Turns out her picture was from fcking fourteen years prior.
She looked Pat Benatar-ish in the picture, more like "It's Pat" in person that day. On top of which, she ultimately ended up thinking I was the asshle here for thinking that was false advertising.
And part of the big mistake here was making dinner plans. I had to now consume an entire meal flavored with awkwardness and pissed-offed-ness on both sides... my reward for which was paying the bill at the end. Yay.
Always make the meeting plan something quick, like coffee or a beer, so your exit strategy is built in. Just guzzle that sht and gtfo if it ain't clickin