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| A Little Insight into Dating Profiles |
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In my experience, online dating profiles are not an accurate gauge of a
person’s personality. The most effective way of making sure that
someone is a good person is by spending time in really getting to know
her or him. A dating profile will really tell you very little about an
individual.
Dating profiles only contain what people want you to think
about them and their personality. It does not really reflect who they
actually are. I’m not trying to discourage you from using online dating
services.
I know that these services can be a good way to meet people,
and make connections in your life. However, you might not like the
results if you dive too deeply into something with someone you have
never met.
I met Jack through an Internet dating service. I received his profile from a matchmaker because the service determined that we were a perfect match. In the beginning it seemed like we really were.
Jack was into all of the same things that I was into: Computer games, volleyball, Swedish meatballs, and long walks on the beach.
However, I felt that there was something not quite right about him. I got no sense of it from looking at his dating profile because it was every bit as normal as any of the other dating profiles.
However, I got the barest inclination that dating profiles do not tell the whole story when we started texting back and forth.
I don’t think that it was because of what he said. He said all of the right things. However, I realize now that his responses were all too perfect, almost like he wanted to say exactly what I wanted to hear.
I did not know why I was unable to consciously pick up on this. I only had a bit of unease which I thought was just nervousness at meeting someone I had never seen before when we set up a date.
Unfortunately, the real world is very different from dating profiles because he turned out to be a total sleaze.
I found out that he had dozens of dating profiles, each geared to lure in a certain type of girl. I never totally fell for his game, but it was a close call. Anyway, I learned a valuable lesson that dating profiles rarely contain the truth about a person.
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