# The Ongoing Online Dating Advice Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 27, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978 "2010-05-27T18:50:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1460
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/1460 "2011-04-02T15:23:04Z")
Long time reader of this thread first time caller. I kind of posted about this in another thread feeling a little wild and euphoric Anyway I’ll quote myself: > [@late night dating site musings](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-night-dating-site-musings/576477/1): > > So after two years I decided to try dating again. Been too long, and my fore arm getting too strong. I’m in a much better place and gong places > > So I set up a dating profile, it’s suitably, and reflectively chill, ironic, satirical, and possibly even funny. Then never get around to messaging anyone. Eh lot of trouble, being a hermit is so much easier. > > Yet for some reason I still browse I have no idea why. Every profile I find a reason not to message them. Wonder off, come back a few weeks later and do the same again. Lather, rinse, repeat. I end up messaging a few people. One no response, one that peters out, one that messages, then disappears for a week then messages me back (not impressed; I didn’t respond). > Well l I check the who viewed my profile page. Top of the list, some chick. For some reason she looks different than the rest. Extremely average, a tad over weight but different, hard to place, but eye catching. She didn’t have all this trashy stuff people around here seem to like, and her pic wasn’t a myspace angle. Just her with a nice hair cut looking slightly awkward at the camera. It had a certain charming sincerity, that’s what’s different. > > I figure this is a good omen. I don’t like fake people. So I click her picture, and her profile seems like her picture. Sincere, plus she has a lot of the same interests. So a little excited I decided to message her. When guess who should message me? > > The same young woman! Apparently she really liked my profile. > > So now we’ve been messaging back and fourth, and I wonder where this could lead. Probably no where, I mean some messages on a dating site tells me nothing, really. I know so little about this girl. Maybe she’s really a guy. Maybe she’s really a jerk in person. > Yet just on the off chance it does go somewhere. I shouldn’t jynx it by telling her I get a little more excited when we trade messages than I’d like. Which is odd because most people aren’t exciting at all. Quite the opposite. Anyway today it seems not quite so wild and euphoric. We talked a bit about talking on the phone. She said she’d give me her number. So I messaged her back my number and asked her for hers and what would be a good time to call her. No response, nada, but she read it awhile ago apparently. Should I message her again and see if the message was lost? She seemed very interested up until then. At anyrate I’m going to go get the ingredients for a nice lunch, because then no matter what I’ll at least have a nice lunch. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978)._