..ok. I might have posted this Topic before...
Honestly I can't remember..lol..
But the question is how much do you disclose of yourself when you first meet someone online... for example..
You meet someone online you exchange the normal usual text messages.. and then you exchange phone numbers... I tend to get all the dirt out about myself rather quickly..
Like how I have a ear pierced I wear silver jewelry I may or may not be getting one two three or four tattoos..
Lol.... this type of thing..
I find it's important to get it out in the open right away... it's the stuff that you don't really put on your profile...
So do you go with full disclosure?? or you let the dirt come out slowly..?

I'm a pull the Band-Aid off quick kind of guy..lol

Depends on the connection. That's different with everyone. And also what happens to come up in conversation.
I don't think I'd typically dish up everything in one go, although I'm very open, too much so at times. But it depends on context. If we're talking about going to Disney Land, it's not exactly the moment to tell him about piercings. Unless you plan to show them off during the Pirates of the Caribbean ride

With him I happen to have shared most everything on the first date, so did he. Not because we said, "Right, lets throw all the cards on the table!"
It just came up and it felt right. There was trust, respect and so on. With some -or with the one- the connection is deep and allows for such things. With others it may take longer or you may not feel comfy enough right away.
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Slowly disclose.
I personally don't want to scare off a potential date right away.

Course, I do disclose right away in my profile something that could/and has scared off women. Least nobody can claim I hid it from them.

I'm with Crystal on this, it depends on the connection and how comfortable you are. Sometimes it just feels right and fits the conversation, other times you might want to wait and see how things go. If it's something that you feel is detrimental and are worried they will ditch you if they know, then it might be best to speak up about it right from the start. It may surprise you that what you think is a big deal isn't to them.

Whatever seems relevant to the discussion and couldn't be used against me legally or for identity theft.

I must be a wee different.
I am a 'literal' and therefore disclose everything
as it happens, I'm nearly incapable of lying..I
also send the worst pics.

My feeling is, let the other one decide if who you
really are is what they want and need.

Sending bad pics sets them up to be pleased upon meeting.
I am really good with that :-)

Sorry double post.

It depends. I'm pretty straightforward - honest & open to a degree. Nothing to hide, but at the same time, hold the cards close.
Once there's more of a connection.. it's opening up about other things.

Wow I am sorry getting a single date does NOT justify me rolling up my sleeve and pouring out a pint of blood about my entire life or asking someone else's.

A date is suppose to be a pleasant exchange not an interrogation.

I get the concept that you might want some current information but that should come out in common conversation like how was your day. Expected interjections of facts.

Do I tell a casual date my credit report, a health update, my family business, or if I am dating someone else? No way. But then I don't hit the sheets for a date and I don't expect a gentleman to have to load up his credit card just to make a positive impression.

The full disclosure stuff comes into the picture when it goes from dating to courting. And give me a little credit for powers of observation and listening skills.

Hmmm... of course you do how and what and when you do. Nothing 'bout that. But to say that not disclosing everything right away is lying?
Choosing to not tell everything right away is a matter of waiting for the right moment, which would be feeling comfy enough with the other and the right time to bring it up. It's not lying.
If you withhold stuff that could be vital to the other, as in a real deal breaker, even after 10 dates... not really a great choice. But still not lying...

I am clearly not a deceptive person so in dating situations if someone ask me a straight up question I will give them one of three answers a) the answer, b) ask why they want that information ( curiosity is not enough in most cases)or c) I am not going to share that private information ( and if that is something I would share later under given situations say that.

I understand people want basic facts to make their own decisions but if you are making life decisions every minute of a simple date you are sucking the life out of life. Ask questions and give information when there is a realistic need to know.

If full disclosure is just reciteing every possible reason you think someone might reject you then maybe you ate selling yourself and the person you date short.

I don't talk personal til I move to the phone! Works for me! I've met several in person! Online gives me no real sence of who the man really is!

to say or not to say...that is the question or is it to be or not to be

I am a very private person so I don't disclose very much; especially on a first date.

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anybody out there

I usually wait until I've known her a while before I tell her I'm a secret cross dresser.

Why? A man in drag is a turn on!

I like a woman that understands

I am in agreement because it gives a person a sense of who you really are and where you have been then that person can decide whether there is a future in the relationship without the lost of investment of time in a futile relationship.