My goals for Day 2 were to read the profiles of the men who "liked" me, go through my Quickmatches to see if I "liked" any of them, email four of the nine men who appeared in my ideal search, respond to the guy from Day 1 who emailed me back and possibly change my screen name.
I was quickly reminded another reason why my stints on the various online dating sites have been so short is that I find wading through profiles to be both tedious and boring. As I read through them, I was thinking about what a time suck this is and how paying my bills or taking a nice, long, hot bath would be a much better use of my time.
My list of men who "liked" me had nineteen men on it. Since four of them don't appear on my Visitors list, I'm guessing they are either A-List members browsing invisibly, or I appeared in their Quickmatch section. I'm still not entirely sure how that works. Of the 19, I made it through 11 profiles. Of the 11, I emailed one and passed on the rest. My reasons for passing on most of them is they either lived too far away (i.e. Germany), they were too negative in their profile, or they had the hallmarks that indicated their profile might be a fake. I did "like" someone who "liked" me first so I'm curious as to whether or not he will email me or if his profile is fake as it read as one that could go either way.
I'm not sure how many of the Quickmatches sent to me I went through as they all tended to blend together. Again, from Quickmatch you can either "like" or "pass" and I only liked two of them. I didn't keep track of how many I passed on or the reasons for doing so but I know that a couple of them were because they didn't match my filters. I have it set that I'd like to meet someone who is between 35-48 and who lives near me. A 51 year old who lives almost 200 miles away certainly doesn't meet that criteria and makes me wonder if the system just matches you with anyone.
So the Quickmatch goal wasn't quite completed but I only had 11 profile views yesterday and only received 3 messages - two from scammers and one from a 29 year old - so it's not going to take me a lot of time to wade through yesterday's "results" and I should be able to make it through the rest of those profiles today.
The next goal was to respond to Day 1 Guy. That was easy enough; he again replied back but based on prior experience I get the sense that conversation is going nowhere. As did the conversation with the 29 year old, who I responded to but whose response to me gave me nothing to comment back on. I also changed my screen name to one that is more generic as I wondered how many people "got" my old one and if that was hampering my profile views.
The hardest part was emailing four of the nine remaining matches from my ideal criteria search. I changed my search to include men who "might" want children and that bumped my matches to 31. In the end, I did email four men yesterday: one from my now expanded search, one who "liked" me, and two who appeared in the "you might like" section. While I have always appreciated getting messages that indicate the guy read my profile, I really have to give props to men who take time to write a nice, well-thought out message. It is not an easy thing to do.
I was going to email a fifth guy. I was checking out his profile and it popped up he was checking out mine. Fate? Nope, when I went to email him, I got an error message that profile didn't exist so he either deleted it or blocked me.
Two days in and I can already tell I paid $20 for nothing. My goals for Day 3 are to finish reading the profiles of the men who have "liked" me so far, go through any new Quickmatches I have and email four men.
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