Dang! Now I read all this stuff! I was foolish enough to sign up on Match for a 6 month term. I have had 2 dates. Seriously..what are these people thinking? That magically, right before the date, you'll turn into a handsome prince or princess and the frog on the other side of the table will turn into an intelligent attractive, slim, (hehe) person? I keep trying to convince myself that the people I've met are just my first experiences. I'm too judgemental, or maybe it will take 6 months to meet a real person. The thing is, if you don't represent the real you visially do you think your date will see through the exterior and see the "romantic, laid back, hand holding, considerate, loving, REAL you"? FOR THE MEN: Why do you post pictures of yourselves far far in the distance, like on a mountain, or in a boat, or in the back of a room? And more times than not, you're wearing sunglasses. OR another thing that is annoying...why do you show us pictures of your fish, your truck, your dog, your boat, your cool car, your beer, the sunset, the beach...and did I mention YOUR DOG? We want to see you. A current picture of your face. Not some webcam, blurred, OLD photo. If you can't find someone to take a decent picture of you, then you must not have many close, loyal friends, and I wouldn't want to hang out with you anyway. As in, if you can't find someone to go golfing or fishing with, you must be a real A-hole! And don't even start me on the age lie. If some of you guys say you're 45, I'm 12. So if and when we walk into a room to meet you for the first time, and we look right past you, it's because we don't recognize you from your picture. unless, you have your dog or a fish with you and you're wearing sunglasses. Something similar to this could happen to you., except we will have posted pictures of our new shoes or hand bag, a starbucks, the mall, or our favorite flower. Or, we'll be 30 yards in the distance, wearing our sunglasses, holding up a credit card, that we just killed! Oh ya, at my age (sorry, I lied on my profile) I don't know the rules. Mama told me the boys call the girls. So if I wink at you first, and then you wink back, who does what next? If I email you, and I feel like I've been too forward, and you don't respond anyway, does that mean I should stalk you until you tell me to go away? Confusing. If we all signed up to be on match, hoping for the same thing, a wonderful person to be our partner, then how does that happen with all this crap going on? I have yet to know anyone that has actually ended up married to anyone from match. PUULLEESSEEE prove me wrong. WHEW!