Whitney's Future Date

Monday, November 23, 2009

Like every other social networking site in cyberspace, the first thing you have to do upon signing up for a dating site is create your profile.  Upload the pictures, pick your user name, yada yada yada. Except with a dating site, the pressure to create the perfect, appetizing profile is paramount. Your profile and photos are all you have to show the world how datable you really are.

On the website I signed up for, this pressure has resulted in a myriad of amazing profiles. These guys are winners! And keepers! Wow. Not only do they all enjoy things like life, they all listen to things like music, and enjoy such adventurous hobbies as travel. Every single one of them touts himself as being ‘hilarious’ and wanting nothing more than to ‘make people laugh.’ Oh, and they’re all looking for the exact same thing: “A woman who is beautiful, inside and out.”

Ok, I know we all want to put our best foot forward, but c’mon! Everyone loves music and going out to dinner and travel and laughing.  These profiles sound like a vocabulary list in an ESL class of “What Americans Do on Weekends.” I want to know what makes you different than everyone else.  I want to know why you’re on this site, what brought you here. I want to know what your EX would say about you!

I guess I can’t expect these dudes to fess up to the truth if I don’t do it too. I decided that my profile would be a shining beacon of possibly detrimental honesty. Under “Who I Am,” here is what I wrote:

“I’m jealous. Passionate. Demanding. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I’m too nice for my own good, and sometimes people walk all over me because of it. I’ve dated a lot, but never had a real relationship. I’m afraid of intimacy. I’m frequently depressed and have trouble sleeping. I’m a workaholic.

That’s all the bad stuff. Still interested in hearing the good?”

Ok, I’m off to post this….can’t wait to see what the responses (if any!) will be. Until Wednesday!