Comments on: Have You Ever Lied About Anything in Your Profile?

By: hunter

hunter — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:47:01 +0000

Some women don’t call them lies, and they don’t call it misrepresenting. I think the word they use is, “Manipulative”.

By: Kenley

Kenley — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:44:52 +0000

Plenty of men have misrepresentative photos too — not just women. I think some people do it because they honestly don’t believe they look different. Others do it because they hope that once you meet them and get to know them, you won’t care that they don’t look exactly like their pictures. I also think that some might due it simply because of laziness — they just don’t feel like updating their profiles or their pictures. However, you’d think that in the extremely unforgiving world of online dating people would realize a dishonest strategy is a losing one, but it doesn’t appear that they do.

By: hunter

hunter — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:56:21 +0000

My applause on your last paragraph. I agree with you.

By: Seductress Within

Seductress Within — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:15:06 +0000

No never lied. I wouldn’t be very trusting of my date if he did.

Most men that I’ve met from an online dating site say “wow, you look exactly like your picture. That almost never happens. I’m always a little nervous to see how different she’ll be.”
I don’t know how many men lie, but women must do it regularly if the majority of the men I’ve met seem surprised to meet me and “everything checks out”.

What is up with that? Why would anyone want to start what could be a relationship with lies or misrepresentations, however small?

By: raindrop

raindrop — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:40:12 +0000

i liked about my first name, used a new fake name to people i met 4 years ago, and we r in touch until now, i know it sounds evil but its the truth ive recently confessed and told him my real name only cuz we r getting serious realtionship meeting for marriage, where as before we were goood friends

but ill never ever do it again made me feel sooo guilty ashamed devasted and hated my entire life for my bad doings

i never lied about my age hight weight religion anything else just my name

By: The InBetweener

The InBetweener — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:15:29 +0000

As far as LIES go, I guess a lie would be any UNTRUTH?

Let’s see, I’ve omitted my first name and just used my middle name.

I’ve said I was currently AT work, when I really just happened to be working from home that day.

I said I was born in Lebanon. I was actually. Just not the country.

I’m 5’5 3/4 bare footed but I never put that in my profile. I usually just put down 5’5-5’6. Mainly because, when you first meet someone in person, it’s almost never barefooted.

Those are my “untruths”. The thing I never understood with people that lie online is, how can someone lie about something that will be visible upon sight?

By: JuJu

JuJu — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:01:46 +0000

mic,

can’t say I understand what exactly you are proposing the dating sites do. Besides, do you hold, say, beer commercials to the same standard?

This reminds me of a JDate ad I once saw in Times Square, which in my opinion was totally unsuccessful. It showed a couple in an embrace – an attractive woman in her upper 20′s-lower 30′s and an unattractive man about 15 years her senior. Let’s just say, based on THAT ad, I’d never be inclined to go on the site. I can see how the woman in the poster could entice a lot of men to try it out, but if that man is a realistic representation of what they can offer, I’d rather take my chances elsewhere.

By: mic

mic — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:28:06 +0000

In online dating, many men lie about their height. That’s been studied.

“I think there are obviously more single shorter guys out there who use online dating and its probably true that more curvy women use online dating than not.”

Probably so, and the general physical attractiveness of online daters probably is lower than that of the relationship-seeking population in general. Online dating sites are going to need to better address that and the lying. Instead of running ads that falsely imply that online dating is a sea of beauties

By: change

change — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:09:28 +0000

I’m about 5’10 so I don’t have to worry about lying about height. But my license says 5’9 but that might be because I got it at 16 and never bothered to change it. Maybe I’m actually 5’9 1/2 but I think if you wear shoes you can seem taller like Doc Martins. George Costanza on seinfeld wore Timberlands to appear taller to women! But with internet dating, I think there are obviously more single shorter guys out there who use online dating and its probably true that more curvy women use online dating than not.

By: hunter

hunter — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:00:13 +0000

Lie after lie, after lie,,,,hhhmmmhh…its not really a lie, isn’t it more like, diplomacy, tactfulness, maybe,…just a little tinsy, tiny, manipulative……