I just uploaded this picture as my default for gay.com private messaging. I realize I need a little help in the eyebrow grooming department but I didn’t think I looked that bad. The complaint I got before when I was using this picture was that they couldn’t see my face well enough. Now I have no idea if they can make out my face any more clearly because now no one will talk to me. I have no trouble getting people to talk to me in person, in fact sometimes have to come up with ways to get them to stop. I guess the answer is either to figure out a way to chat online only with blind people or have a picture taken in a dark bar because that seems to be the only time I look presentable.
AIM: homebrewtexas
I’ll chat sometime.
Uh, maybe it would help if you could get the Yahoo! photo people to stop placing a large “Sleep Angel” ad next to your photo.
Something about the association with sleep apnea, and the big headline “QUIT SNORING!” might be disconcerting to potential contacts.
If you’re the one marketing the “Sleep Angel” and not Yahoo!, please forgive me, it sounds like a wonderful concept.
WTF? I just put that photo on Yahoo today and I don’t remember there ever being an ad in my photo albums before. That fucking SUCKS that they sell ad space in MY photo album.
The photos for gay.com are uploaded separately, not linked over from Yahoo.
Homebrew, I don’t have AIM. Do you Yahoo?
Hey you haven’t really given people a chance yet have you? I notice the pic was posted on July 19. Having said that I don’t know anything about private messaging…
Are the guys on that service looking for adult men who look like adult men or are they looking for twinks? Perhaps you are marketing yourself to the wrong people? Or maybe Jackmannii’s right and all the adults are looking into their sleep problems.
Well, obviously, you should not have cropped out the airliner aimed at the building from the photo. (It builds interest.)
It’s not a good picture of you. Relax more, you look tense somehow- wax your brows - get a haircut - show some teeth when you smile.
Well, I’m female, so I don’t know if it counts for much, but I think the first picture is very attractive. I like the eyebrows!
After looking at all your pics, I gotta say that first picture you linked doesn’t do you justice. You’re much cuter and from what I’ve seen, the second picture seems more true to life than the first.
Well whaddaya expect. You end sentences with prepositions. Nobody’s gonna put up with that crap.
You must be really repulsive, because my browser won’t even display that page!
Or maybe I’m just having trouble with the link…
Nah, spooje, I’ve got the same problem.
Not that I’m meaning to imply that Otto is repulsive, though.
Maybe it’s your date, whom you have your arm around in the new picture, that gives pause. 
It’s just not a very good picture. The one you uploaded to the Stunning Sodomites was much better.
I’ve had similar worries about the photo I uploaded to PlanetOut. It was two weeks ago, and no one’s responded 
Ah, it can’t be that bad, lemme take a look…
OH GOD!!! MY EYES!!! MY EYES!!!
Just kidding. Looks like a decent pic to this straight guy, but it sounds like others who have met you say it doesn’t do you justice.
I read somewhere that the pics a person likes of themself are often not the pics others think are flattering. If you have a lot of possible pics, show them to friends and ask their opinion.
In my opinion, any/all online chat/meet services are a W O T.
You may have more success meeting people at:
Club 5
Rainbow Room
CE’s
Shamrock
Ray’s Bar & Grill
Opus Lounge
Cardinal Bar
Planet Q or
Barracks
Than you will online. Out in public; you talk with people, get to see them, laugh, flirt, read one another’s expressions, etc. as opposed to typing to them.
Use online services only as a supplemental tool for an occasional fling or a precursor to a video-conference - not as the means to finding prince/princess charming.
Otto:
My AIM is HeldenBoy – and I love to chat.
I am planning on visiting NYC someday – wanna be my tour guide?
Otto:
My AIM is HeldenBoy – and I love to chat.
I am planning on visiting NYC someday – wanna be my tour guide?
I swear I only hit Submit once – the hamsters are out to get me.