Thus spake LauraRae:
LR, why don’t you just delete your dang profile? As Monty Python says, “If they can’t see you, they can’t get you.”
Tim
“My hovercraft is full of eels.”
Because there is an entirely different breed of random IMer that I welcome–the ones who may have gone to my school (or are thinking about going there), the ones who teach in my area or in the same grade, the ones who think I may be that girl they knew from way back when…people whose interest is something other than cheap sexual fantasy thrills.
It’s also so people (such as those I encounter on message boards) can simply know a little more about who I am. That is the original purpose of an AOL profile, anyway–it is NOT designed to be a personal ad, and shouldn’t be assumed to be one. (Esp. if they say “I don’t cyber.”)
“Me fail English? That’s unpossible!”
“English? Who needs that? I’m never going to England.”
Before I meet someone from the net, I input their email address into every search engine I can, plus perhaps www.ask.com [multisearch], www.dejanews.com [newsgroup search] & check any business they say they own at www.salesleadsusa.com & then perhaps match to see if it agrees with what I have been told. Kinda just bored sometimes, so I do these things. Can also check if they are flirting with more people on the net that way.
‘FINGER’ing’ someone, also used to be a great way cause you could check how many emails they got. But most have it turned off now.
Sorry, no hairy chest, no mustache… actually, I’m NOT sorry about that! I guess what I don’t understand about an Internet Romance is how do you get together? If you live in the same state I could see it but what if they live rather far from you? Unless you have a lot of money falling out your ass that seems rather difficult to swing.
I might be tempted to meet someone if they lived here in Salt Lake but I don’t see myself flying out to see someone KNOWING that I won’t be able to see them again for a long time. It seems almost like teasing myself with something I know I can’t have.
The moon looks on many flowers, the flowers on but one moon.
Byz-
Careful some of us do have chest hair and facial hair!
[[If Bob (Big Iron) ever takes that trip out west, he knows better than to not stop by for coffee. ]] Diane
You got that right! 