serious? pffft I will skim it
sometimes shake my head
sometimes grin

I do read them so I can see what they're looking for ; just to prevent confusion lol

Don't feel bad. Right now I have 241 matches. And if I was looking not one of them would be worth my time. Every one of them are scammers. I know this because I've Google searched many of them. And others I've already dealt with on another site. All of them are 20 and 30 somethings. Most of them are from out west. If they are really where they say they are, Which I doubt they are, every one of them are over 500 miles away from me. I've already figured out that it does no good to report them. There are too many. The site is overrun with them. And the filters don't work. The smartest thing you can do is put them on your block list and move on.

I can't understand when I get messages from women in their 20's & 3o's ? Now if they were in their 60's,70's that would be great.
I've enjoyed chatting with folks all over the world. Very interesting to find out about their lives and countries, states.
Char

*** making mental note to not contact Char again for another 40 years ***

Yes,man read female profiles

I read profiles and try not to go by the pic (though there has to be some physical attraction!)

If there is a little info I will try to ask a question to get more out of them. If there is no info, then why bother. If a guy can't take the time to write a sentence or two, it doesn't give much hope for decent conversation through mails.

I think men do generally read my profile, going by the number that view it and don't message me. But I'm OK with that, saves us both some time.

Just waiting to find the one that sees enough in my profile to want to know more and get the hint that I'm not looking for casual fun (I'm not that subtle about it!)

Yeah some men actually do it the smart ones I think lol.. Thumps up for does ones ☺☺

A profile is how some one sees themselves anyway. Some truth and some BS.
A good writer will sound better than some one who is not. So yah back to the pictures and see if I am at least attracted to them before one sorts out the BS from the truth.

yeah you bet... my profile says looking for friendship... its crystal clear but they would message me asking what im looking here... guhh?? like seriously?? they just look at the picture... its more like photo reading than profile reading

Wow. That really goes both ways. I don't know how many I get on this site and others that just don't bother to read my profile. Granted, mine may be longer than most, but there are things in there that people should read so they do not waste their time or mine. Like Motorcycles. Most of my pictures have a motorcycle in them. My profile says that if you don't at least like them to move on. What is so hard to understand? I say if your not in the United States don't bother. Yet I get them from all over anyway. So it is not just guys that don't read profiles. Although I do. But women also do not read them much either.

LOL, i think it apply's to both men and women.

The bigger question is how much of a book a person,places on a profile is true?

I see woman expect complete and total love on either, the first email or picture.
I believe more in Lust at first site/pic..If you can get past that, then there is hope in finding love.

Me I prefer face to face to see a woman's eyes and body language to see when she is lying or telling the truth.

Only skim the profiles first to find keywords like fishing, camping, or other outdoors activities that interest me, if my interest is twerked, then I usually read the whole profile SEVERAL times before I message anyone. Doubt I have messaged two ladies a year on this site, not many really in the field I am searching for. (As many regular poster know I do message you on matters relating to the site and other things, but not in looking for a relationship)

I too have noticed that wimmins want a long winded romantical first message, when most of them can only come up with, Hello, if they message you first...

So many profile have "have not been seen in over 30 Day" (which means they were to lazy to delete) that I have now quit doing searches all together on this site. Only perv profiles of recent posters on here and many of them delete the first week after getting online...hopeless here! Even most who have thousands of post are hardened and no longer looking, just here to post and play on the forums.

So cynical, some of us are still living in hope.

I read yalls profile and find that a lot of you are very hateful. profiles that don't sound pleasant don't get any responses. also we men know your only looking for a big bank deposit rather than finding a relationship. start being honest for once. we can see through your lies like you say to us.

same with women. be really honest, just put on your profile, I'm looking for a man who earns 100k or more a year.

most of them don't.

Most of them don't what Butribu? After spinning 24 pages, I forgot what we're talking about. ;)