Hooking up on the net: what not to do #6

• 03 November 2008 at 16:48
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Ad on some gay dating website:

I'm not into smoking, drinking or poppers and i like to keep fit by playing sport and eating healthy.

Reaction:

Sounds fucking boring.

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Hooking up on the net: what not to do #5

• 25 August 2008 at 08:56
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A very important item in a meeting profile is the picture. Well, yeah, whether you like it or not, the image plays an important part. So, some pieces of advice:

1. Put a picture! If you think you're going to seduce with only a hundred-worded description, wake up.
2. Put a picture OF YOU! Well, yeah, there's no point uploading the picture of your latest favourite movie or your cat!
3. People need to see it's you on the picture: I find a lot of a group pictures such as "my friends and me", "my boyfriend and me" or "my best female friend and me" and it's often difficult to figure out who's who.
4. Avoid sunglasses, for two reasons: first because it covers the most important part of your face, your eyes, and then because you look like a show-off.
5. Avoid pausing like a playboy on pictures, because people can see straight away that it's not spontaneous!
6. Do not put a picture on which you look gloomy, you're going to look like someone depressed or someone boring.
7. Remember that the first picture is the most important: it's the first impression, so it must make you look good.

I think I forgot a few. Suggestions?

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Hooking up on the net: what not to do #4

• 24 August 2008 at 18:04
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When you describe yourself, you should avoid doing too much. Like:

I am:
Generous
Clever
Into sports
Fun
Caring
Romantic
Genuine
Honest
Cute

After reading something like that, I think the guy has got an issue with his ego. (Oh, I know, I, myself, am a blogger and have a problem with my ego, but I have never been that far!)

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Hooking up on the net: what not to do #3

• 24 August 2008 at 11:27
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I had already commented ads on the net. Now, I'm gonna talk about all kinds of ads.

So, the Facebook application "Are you interested?" allows you to check the profile of several people (picture + description), to say whether you're interested or not, and to send a message to the person. Sometimes, you see a profile with a nice picture and then you read a funny text in which the person introduces themselves. And at the end, there is a problem:

I am a nice, funny, straight-acting guy!

I still don't understand the straight-acting things.

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Ads: "Straight-acting"

• 21 February 2007 at 10:00
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What is the big trend in the ads for guys? The "straight-acting" word.

Yes, gay guys suffer from their femininity, because when you're gay, you're attracted to men. Then, a lot are not attracted to effeminate guys. And as a result, some try to "behave like straight guys".

I'm not gonna deny I am a bit like that myself, how many times when I met a guy I said to myself "for fuck's sake, I have such a camp laughter!"? However, I'll never say I'm "straight-acting", there's nothing to be proud of, since it only shows the shame you feel about your femininity!

The funniest part about that is that the guys writing this stupid stuff are often those who look the campest! A guy would call himself a "straight-acting" and added: "Don't be shy, I DON'T BITE!" with a picture where his head was leaning backwards and his mouth was wide open. Tss...

Oddly enough, I found an ad from two guys looking for a flatshare, who looked as superficial as possible and who ended their message with "every guy who calls himself 'straight-acting' is nothing but a prick without any self esteem".

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Ads: What not to do

• 12 December 2006 at 10:00
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It seems very desperate but anyway, checking the ads on Gumtree is really entertaining.

You can classify ads in two types: those for serious relationships, and those for the fun. The serious ones are the most interesting, especially as they look alike a lot and most are completely desperate.

This is how I happened to read the ad of a guy starting his message by saying he posted his ad several times and and that he's fed up with "confused" guys contacting him and that he's wondering if he's not the only "normal" guy around there.

I'm not gonna tell you about what else he said as he had already fucked up every chance with anyone since the beginning of the ad!

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