It is a dating site, and if there is no pic in a profile, and no/little interaction on the forums, its pretty obvious you aint gonna get many messages, you know? Its just easier to to move to the next person who as showed a bit of themselves (photo or chat). At least you can get an idea of who they are.. Not many people are into blind dates, after all ..
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I've only just joined agen and have been overloaded with msgs i find it hard to keep up. I try and have hopefully suceeded in msging all those who have sent me a msg but after awhile it gets tiring, it does'nt matter what the msg starts with as long as the person can hold a conversation. All msgs from guys, guys so far who are older than 23, oh well back to msging.
Force be with you lol

I know it's been a little while since someone responded to this, but may I add another reason why people look at profile but then don't message.

I do find myself doing a search, looking at someone's profile usually with picture attached and then I self select myself out by thinking "God, he'll never talk to me, he's out of my league"...............I know, I know shouldn't do that but it might explain some profile-lookers who don't send messages.

Of course I do agree with others that no piccy and hardly any profile makes you wonder if they just put themselves on for a joke on a boring Sunday night.

i agree with you, there was one guy on here was complaing that no one ever messaged him, said he couldn't understand it, when someone asked him if he ever messaged anyone he said no....

emmmmm

What i don't like, is when you send a perfectly good message, and people read it, then don't reply, with something as simple as even a thanks, but....
that get's me..

I'm averaging 0 messages in 100 views so far... going for the record. A record which is unknown to me..

I've had 4 marriage proposals from Turkey and Mexico but other than that Zilch!!

Apart from those who want to tell me what they want to do to me. I don't need that - I have Anne Summers!!!!

(Those who need to ask PM me) xx

Ive not had any marriage proposals from strange people from abroad, its not fair. *Throws tantrum*

Ive had one lovely lady message me just recently

other than that all my messages are related to what goes on here on the forum, as being a moderator people contact me about 'stuff'

oh i get that a bit too, women from the deep south in the states or somewhere messaging me about marriage, or more likely an easy way into the eu.

damn knew it was one or the other...hello mr cheekyboy
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i don't believe i've been cheeky to anyone as yet, or have i had a clothing malfunction that i hadn't noticed or something?

I get fellas msg me all the time, with no pic, nothing on their profile. Sometimes I reply, 'cos don't wanna seem like a bitch, but it's very annoying when you put effort into your profile, and they can't even fill in a few boxes.
As for not msg some1 I think is nice, it's usually 'cos I would think they wouldn't even look at me, so why bother. I know that's stupid, cos nothing ventured, nothing gained
Also, I find people msg me, haven't really looked at my profile at all, and then are shocked when I talk about my kids, then they can do a runner!! Very frustrating. Maybe that should be another topic

I think deep down most women still like to be approached!? Few women make the first move!! Or do they??

Problem is, women get hundreds of messages, while the men
who are sending them are just competing against each other.

Unless there was something specifically said that attracted
their attention in the first place, they don't usually write back
unless they find you at least physically attractive.

People are shallow, regardless of what they say. It's a 1 second
decision after looking at your photo, so you'd better have a
good one. First impressions everything. Approach it like you
would, going for a job interview.

You would think that it can't get any easier than just typing "Hi" and clicking the enter key, but obviously it isn't THAT easy.......
I think that the fear of rejection is probably the biggest reason why most people 'look but don't touch', which from my point of view is insane, but then I am pretty a friendly guy to get along with so it's not like I would tell anyone to get fucked or anything.
I tend to look at the pictures only to put a face to the person, but looks are far from important, you just can't tell from a picture what their personality is like.
I don't get loads of messages myself, but all the ones I have had have been from friendly people so I would say keep cracking at it and anyone who does not want to know you has just lost an opportunity to make at the very least a new friend, and I don't know anyone who has too MANY friends........