Great conversation guys.. that's the way to it.

kudos to you all

Well, there's your clue... They look at my profile... and then.. find nothing there.
"I will tell you later" is not going to get the ladies knocking at your door. Tell us now. If you have nothing to say, we move on to a guy who does.
You got to pique our interest, you got to sell yourself online. Maybe you can walk into a pub and have your aura work for you. It doesn't work that way online. You have to present yourself a different way and having a profile text will help.
If you truly want to get somewhere with online dating, read up on it a bit online. There's plenty of info on how to write a nice, appealing profile text.
The boring, default: "I'm funny, I like to laugh" stuff won't work because everyone says that. It's a pointless claim. If your profile texts would show and exude that you are funny, positive and happy, that's another story. That will work.

Simply put, if you want online dating to work for you, you have got to put a little time and effort into it. And not into aimless messages, but in a creating a good profile. Good thing is, once you got one that seems to work (that may take a bit of experimenting) you can use that on any site.

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Can you hear me

(Sorry, double post)

CrystalFairy, you are so correct. The great phrase I noticed in your reply is "to sell yourself". It's no different than selling yourself to get that great job. Our profile here is like the resume's cover letter. It has to be different than any other "applicant's" to get their attention.
I agree that it shouldn't be this hard, but online dating is different than the real world.

ive never had a conversation with nobody. people are just here for the games

Same here, I chat in the forums, that help. I wonder, in my area not that many active.

Hi Mike!
Indeed, it has to stand out! Pique interest, not by coming up with a lot of cr@p, but by being yourself, showing the unique interesting person that you are. If there is nothing interesting about you, well, then you cannot and should not complain you don't get interesting ppl replying to you.
You cannot expect first class if you got nothing to offer yourself. Simple as that.
And yes, it is different from the real world, but not necessarily more difficult. It's just learning other skills, it still comes down to presenting yourself though and developing communication skills, just like in real life.
Also, in real life you can only 'work' one room at the same time. Online you got lets say 100 rooms in one go. That's why it may seem you get more rejection, but if you were to 'work' 100 rooms in real life, you'd get as much. It would just take you a longer time to get it, cos it would take more time to do 100 rooms than it does online.
You get what I mean? In real life it might take you 2 months to do those 100 rooms (clubs, pubs, restaurants, whatever), and get lets say 50 rejections. Online you could do those 100 in two evenings on a dating site and get the 50 rejections, making it seem much more, while in actual fact it's the same percentage of rejection...

Just a matter of learning modern techniques and using them to your advantage. What it takes to get people's attentions and to pique interest really isn't all that different from what it takes in real life ...

Let the words flow. Hi everyone.