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user-inactivated  ·  3100 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 1, 2016

    Preferences are nonsense anyway.

That was a point of conversation last night with my brother. Be too descriptive and it allows for knit-picking, be too brief and you're just another profile with little to say for oneself. Finding a balance with indulgence and brevity is an odd concept to me. Maybe I'm looking at it a wrong way around.

Note: Love your sense of humor in those 'preferences.'





lil  ·  3100 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't know whether you have seen my #stateofthelil posts which are mostly about internet dating, but Dating Part 4 ignores preferences altogether and talks about describing your ideas on your profile.

Also thx for the compliment.

user-inactivated  ·  3099 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Truth be told, I started from the beginning once I saw your "Dating Part 5," seeing its relevancy to my current position. I've you in mind as I was (read am) cyclically typing and deleting preferences.

    Dating Part 4 ignores preferences altogether and talks about describing your ideas on your profile.

Sound logic to me. Looking for someone with aligned ideology is at the core of reading the preferences, one would think... I'll pop this method into the slower dating apps in the coming week. The 'fast' ones like Tinder etc. just aren't my cup of tea.

Shit, just the phrase "my cup of tea" feels like a disqualification.