Do Men Really READ the profiles ?
Some do.
But if they don't like what they read, they're just going to click on "next" and forget you in 2 seconds, never even considering contacting you.
Your profile is their first impression.
Some don't.
They've used online dating before so they inherently realize the outcomes to contacting you are:
- you don't read their first email.
- you read their first email and don't reply.
- you do/don't read their first email and you reply but you're a scammer.
- you do read their email, you reply, and you're in no way a match or boring.
- you do read their email, you respond, but you're only online to chat because you're bored, and you may interact for a while, but you'll just disappear.
- You do read their email, you do respond, but you're catfishing them and your profile is a complete cliche or lie.
- You do read their email, you do respond, but you've been here so long you haven't updated your profile in months or years and have no idea what it says anymore, and you and your mood have changed since you filled out your profile.
- you do read their email, you do reply, and you are a match, you meet.
Odds are reading your profile is pointless, and better to just shoot you an email to determine if you're real, not looking to just chat, not a scammer, will respond, and if you can contribute to/hold/lead a conversation.
And personally, when I've really used online dating, most of the first conversations are them talking about crap I've already read on their profile.
Not to mention in a lot of emails they will bring up something in my profile, we will talk about it, move on, and then they'll ask about it again having completely forgotten they've already asked about it.
There are a lot of articles online about the dwindling attention span of people online, how they watch videos, how they read news articles, and how they interact.
It's not "manreading" it's an "epidemic" of online changing how people absorb information.
Hints about scammers would be appreciated..
What do you mean?
Scammers and "players" are pretty much the same.
One wants to use you for their personal financial gain, one wants to use you for their personal sexual gain.
They don't care about your profile.
Only that you're accessible.
More than likely they are sending out as many emails as possible.
Spamming doesn't allow a lot of time to read or differentiate.
They don't care about any "no soliciting" warnings on your profile.
The worst thing you can do to them is not respond.