8 Embarrassing Mistakes You Won't Believe People On Dating Sites Make

5. Scantily-Clad Selfies As Their Display Picture

While I'm very well-versed with naked men and women on the internet, as my history browser will reliably confirm anyone who cares to look, there's a time and a place for such images, and a dating site is certainly not one of them. If you're looking for a potential partner for life, why on earth would have to bare all your flesh in order to attract somebody? Would these people in question do a similar thing to boy or girl in public to get his or her attention? Although I do see some nightclub shenanigans going on... Regardless if such a sight is nice to see €“ and believe me, there some very well-put together characters on many dating sites €“ it's still embarrassing to see such desperation for attention. All these pictures attract are moronic messages of a sexual nature, that I'm certainly not proud of now. And what's funnier is that on some of these explicit profiles, of which I've never ever looked at, will have written that they're not looking for any fling and don't appreciate suggestive messages about what flesh they're showcasing for the general public to see. This, my wonderful readers, is called irony. It's very difficult to convince a potential partner in the making that you're a person with honest intentions when you're all too willing to bare flesh on a public dating site. Such profiles don't exactly scream out 'future wife' or 'future husband', but will more likely earn you a short-lived romp-fest that is over sooner than you could finish reading this article - although I'm a fast-reader....
 
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Crippy Cooke, 23, is a freelance Football Writer contributing to What Culture. He's had work featured on Zoo, MSN, London 24, The Telegraph, The Huffington Post, and was recently named Writer of the Year on FTBpro - while also a nominee for Best Male Blog in the Football Blogging Awards.