aj22one Posted November 24, 2010 Posted November 24, 2010 I joined an online dating site a few months ago (one of the free ones). One of the major problems I have encountered is that there are very few women in my age range (I'm 22, so 19-23 is what I consider my age range), but when I expand the search criteria I have found that there are quite a few women 2-4 years older than me (24-26). However whenever I message them I never get a response, they view my profile but do not message me. Granted I'm sure this happens a lot generally in online dating where people just don't message for any number of reasons, but I'm wondering if age is a major factor here, and if I should just stop messaging women outside of the 19-23 age range or whether the whole thing is just a coincidence. Anyone else have this problem?
fishtaco Posted November 24, 2010 Posted November 24, 2010 I joined an online dating site a few months ago (one of the free ones). One of the major problems I have encountered is that there are very few women in my age range (I'm 22, so 19-23 is what I consider my age range), but when I expand the search criteria I have found that there are quite a few women 2-4 years older than me (24-26). However whenever I message them I never get a response, they view my profile but do not message me. Granted I'm sure this happens a lot generally in online dating where people just don't message for any number of reasons, but I'm wondering if age is a major factor here, and if I should just stop messaging women outside of the 19-23 age range or whether the whole thing is just a coincidence. Anyone else have this problem? That's just how online dating is. You have to spam as many women as you can, make sure messages are somewhat relevant to their profile, but keep it short. Pump out as many messages as you can. Focus on ones that recently signed up, since they're more likely to respond. Oh and you need a really good profile picture, preferably one that's professionally done. The percentage of women that will respond is extremely low. My recommendation is to stick to real life dating.
Author aj22one Posted November 24, 2010 Author Posted November 24, 2010 That's just how online dating is. You have to spam as many women as you can, make sure messages are somewhat relevant to their profile, but keep it short. Pump out as many messages as you can. Focus on ones that recently signed up, since they're more likely to respond. Oh and you need a really good profile picture, preferably one that's professionally done. The percentage of women that will respond is extremely low. My recommendation is to stick to real life dating. Yeah I realize that but found it strange that none of the older women I messaged responded. The response rate is usually low for online dating but I figured if I got a low response rate from people 19-23 then that response rate should be more or less the same rate that I get from women 24-26. I'm not strictly relying on online dating, just using it as a way of casting a wider net so to speak.
ascendotum Posted November 25, 2010 Posted November 25, 2010 As per fishtaco's post, its the nature of internet dating, and as he/she said, you should be doing real life dating. Jeez at 22 you should be encountering so many single girls in your day to day life and should be out socializing way more than if you were much older.
Author aj22one Posted November 25, 2010 Author Posted November 25, 2010 As per fishtaco's post, its the nature of internet dating, and as he/she said, you should be doing real life dating. Jeez at 22 you should be encountering so many single girls in your day to day life and should be out socializing way more than if you were much older. Hell, I wish. I have a good amount of friends who know very few women aside from their girlfriends. At school, the place where I thought it would be a slam dunk meeting women, I have found that a good amount of women are married or engaged, or at least all of the ones I've met. I guess that's what I get for going to a commuter school. Also, I never said I wasn't doing real life dating, just augmenting what I'm already doing. Maybe I'll just wait until I graduate and move out to worry about dating.
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