"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

I think that every person has a different taste and consider beautiful different things. As people grow older, their view of beauty changes as well. Not to mention that everybody consider themselves beautiful in one way or another.

In my opinion, if you consider yourself attractive and are confident with the way you are and the way you look, then there is no need to announce it. Confident people don't need to point things out but instead, they know that the people that meet them will see that on their own without having to be told.

There is confidence and then there is vanity, and nowadays people tend to confuse the one with the other. And like I said before, some people might be attracte by vanity as well so... to each its own. =)

It always comes across as if they're trying to convince themselves first.

It's like when someone uses an adjective in a screen name -- "sexy" is different things to different people -- if you need to wear a sign saying "I'm sexy" then maybe you're not....

It comes across as arrogant. If they're good looking, there's no need to announce it to the world. Others will be able to see for themselves.

I totally agree. The pics should explain what a person looks like. (ie a pic is worth a 1000 words eh? LOL)

That's NOT confidence. That's arrogance. (And as Lex said so well .. WHO are they trying to convince? ha ha .. nice Lex!)

Other people can define our outward appearance in a less 'vain' way than we ourselves.

You pat yourself on the back, no chance of gettin it from me. LOL

Imo...I don't think you can tell if someone is confident from a pic. I know I can't.Confidence is usually spotted by the way a person acts in person.They can say anything in a profile, its the way they are in person that will tell the difference.

No one will boost you, like you will. If takes looking at yourself or telling others that you think you are attractive, there is no harm in building your own confidence. Maybe some will see it as a shallow way of doing it, but sometimes whatever works for you is a good thing.

if it's in the first sentence, yeah - concieted.

but a little self confidence is nothing to get all upset about. hell, that's the point of the profile - to advertise whatever traits of yourself you think are best.

is it concieted to think you're smart? funny? hard working?...so why does thinking you look good have to be so vain?

To me, these things also fit into the vanity genre. A person only knows for themselves how smart/funny/hard working/etc. they are, so it still isn't for them to make that distinction about themselves to others. It's up to others to notice it for their OWN selves and make their own conclusions.

I would NEVER be so presumptuous as to say, "Damn, I am a really good lookin' guy!", because that's not for me to say. That's simply a self-attitude. To that end, it STILL makes me uncomfortable to hear others say it about me, because I've never thought of myself that way.

I do know I'm smart and funny. I always make people laugh. But as far as announcing how hot I am think I am, that's pretty vain. I could think I'm the hottest thing there ever was, doesn't mean anyone else would agree with me

I am flat out concieted, narccisitic, egotistical and vain.

But, at least I am honest so I should get one point in the honesty catagory.

I don't claim to be a looker. I'm a good thinkerer though.