Re: Internet dating:
PoF is genuinely the ugliest and worst-designed website I've ever visited (that hasn't been infested with viruses). Also, every single email the site sends you shows your password in plain text, unhidden, unencrypted. It is just there. I mean, honestly, what the fuck is wrong with the admins? And, yes, it is a bunch of single mothers or 25 year-olds that have "longest relationship" as 7+ years.
I guess I haven't really messaged enough people on it to get a good sense of success rates, but there's not really much to go with due to how short and abysmal the profiles tend to be. Got 2 dates with the second girl I messaged, but nothing since then except for, like, 6+ messages with a girl that stopped responding the moment I asked her out to coffee. Oh, and the only girl that picked me on the "would like to meet" function has been a 24 year-old single mother that had the title "Bella looking for her Edward." Yeah. No.
I think OKCupid is the better site, even if the women are a bit bigger and overall fewer in number. I'm not really a looker, so I need the decent profiles and messaging systems. But, yeah, haven't had all that much success with it, either. But I've been happier with it than PoF.
You'll find more serious people on pay sites, but how they segregate users causes a whole bunch of other problems.
If you're tall, live in the city, and have good pictures of yourself internet dating will be awesome for you. Suburbs, or short? Yeah, don't expect many messages out-of-the-blue except from fat chicks.
I really need better pictures of myself since my weight loss. Should get on top of that soon. None of my friends or friends' wives or girlfriends are photo addicts.
