Reply To: Maintaining Active Profiles on Mainstream Dating Sites

Yes, there were some profiles that gave useful information about the users’ personalities. I was searching in the San Francisco Bay area at the time, there are some very political people in this area, and I saw a lot of things about politics on profiles, especially just after Trump was elected president for the first time. From that I could infer some things about their personalities.

Not many people said directly what they wanted out of a relationship, but we were all younger back then so maybe we didn’t know any better.

Mostly I saw boring information about people’s jobs, generic hobbies like traveling (there were LOTS of travel-lovers), and long lists of music people liked.

I never found any of it inviting. I saw the same things over and over again, and the environment felt shallow, like people had nothing to say or wanted to project an image more than find a partner. People are fake in real life here, too.