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Do selfies on dating sites turn girls off?

I have read on some websites that apparently women hate when men post selfies on dating sites, which is pretty hypocritical if it's true because all women post are selfies.

Can anyone shed light on this?

IMO one argument is that you don't want your friends posted onto a dating site without their permission. Selfie is the most discreet way

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Reply 1

siamakdie

Just take topless pics. I wouldn't take any girl on a dating site too serious tbh. They expect 1000 word essay on why you like them, ain't nobody got time for that.

Reply 2

Alpha brah

Women do not just post selfies.

Anyway - no, wouldn't give a damn. And the obvious solution if you don't want to post your friends in is to just cut out the part of the picture you are in.

Reply 3

syrettd

Can't you just post a photo of yourself that someone else took? I'd have thought this was what most people do for a photo...

I don't use dating sites, but if a guy I met had pictures he'd taken of himself in front of a mirror on his Facebook, I'd be a bit put off. I don't understand why people take selfies and post them online, I only take selfies if a friend wants to see how I've got my hair and make up for a night out.

Reply 4

Knighted

Original post by Alpha brah

Women do not just post selfies.

Anyway - no, wouldn't give a damn. And the obvious solution if you don't want to post your friends in is to just cut out the part of the picture you are in.

This information would be useful if you were actually a female.

Anyway OP you're overthinking it mate. Post what you want, spread your personality across that page don't confine yourself to what you think people will find attractive.

Reply 5

username234673

Original post by syrettd

Can't you just post a photo of yourself that someone else took? I'd have thought this was what most people do for a photo...

All well and good saying that, but my group of friends aren't really the type to take photos much...

Reply 6

datpiff

Original post by mikeyd85

All well and good saying that, but my group of friends aren't really the type to take photos much...

That's what we're like. We don't have many photos whatsoever. We just can't be arsed with turning everything into a photoshoot like some girls do. Wastes time.

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Reply 7

syrettd

Original post by mikeyd85

All well and good saying that, but my group of friends aren't really the type to take photos much...

Couldn't you just say 'Hey mate, I'm making a dating profile and need a picture, here's a camera'? Me and my friends aren't the sort of people that take photos either, but when my friend made her dating profile I took a picture for her.

Reply 8

username234673

Original post by syrettd

No. Mainly because I really, really hate contrived photos.

Reply 9

syrettd

Original post by mikeyd85

No. Mainly because I really, really hate contrived photos.

But that's what selfies are. At least if someone else takes the photo there's no mirror in the picture/weird twist of your arm as you try and get your phone out far enough to get the shot.

Reply 10

username234673

Original post by syrettd

But that's what selfies are. At least if someone else takes the photo there's no mirror in the picture/weird twist of your arm as you try and get your phone out far enough to get the shot.

I don't do selfies either.*

*aside from those taken to track progress.

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Reply 11

datpiff

I hate those group photos girls take. A massive group in a line with all of them jutting out their arses and doing duckface with **** cocktails.

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Reply 12

Inazuma

Read an article (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2532522/THIS-perfect-online-dating-picture-men-youre-female-THIS-photo-success.html)

that:

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Zoosk study finds women get 60% more attention if photo is taken indoors

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Men get 19% more attention if theirs is taken outside

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Full-body photos boost both sexes success by 203%

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Men get 8% fewer messages if they put up selfies

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Writing using :-) smileys gets 13% more responses - but :smile: gets 66% fewer

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Talking about kids and exes gets men more messages but women fewer

Reply 13

datpiff

Original post by marinaim

Read an article (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2532522/THIS-perfect-online-dating-picture-men-youre-female-THIS-photo-success.html)

that:

If you can find an article that isn't the Daily Fail I'll read. Sorry I just refuse to read anything by that paper I wouldn't even use as toilet paper

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Reply 14

Inazuma

Original post by datpiff

If you can find an article that isn't the Daily Fail I'll read. Sorry I just refuse to read anything by that paper I wouldn't even use as toilet paper

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God seriously. I don't like DM, but if you read it all the statistics are by an independent called ZOOSK. ffs.