Missokyst -> RE: First R/T meeting after "net" time (7/16/2008 7:05:16 PM)
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I am not her but.. Pics can be very different. I look exactly like the pic I present online (well the top half of my face does), but I took the picture. When people meet me after I send them the full face shot they tell me "YOU LOOK JUST LIKE YOUR PICTURE!" LOL, as if I could be anything but.. however, when other people have taken my pic I rarely look like me. A professional shot makes me look.. I don't know.. unreal. An amatuer can take my picture and it comes out blotchy, bloated, ICKY. My simple held out at arms length picture taking looks more like me than any other pic I have had taken. I have met men (and women) who send me pics that look nothing like them. Personally, I don't think too many people take good shots. One guy I met did have the bluest eyes I ever saw on film. But his description was average height, and he might have been, if 5'3" is average. One guy looked nice from the pic, but in person his aroma made me want to pass on lunch. People are more than the physical image they present. They are scent, attitude, behavior, manners, intellect, activity, humor, and ability. I am more than the woman with the serious eyes. I am also a punster, quick witted with fast comebacks, logical and intuitive woman. Online, people put together the image they want to believe. She is a perfect match, he is a commanding dom.. but for the most part that is what WE want to perceive of them. We project our desires and see what we need to see. You know that saying "Take what you want and leave the rest."? Basically that is exactly what we do in getting to know someone online. In the rush to feel that romance, we see our own reflection in the mirror of their soul. That continues until you are faced with reality. Kyst quote:
ORIGINAL: CelticPrince quote:
Curious </image/2star.gif> Posts: 39 Joined: 1/1/2004 Status: offline </image/blank.gif> I have to remember not to expect the person I have created in my head. The image I have of the other person is based on very limited information, and information that is consciously controlled by the sender. Even with the best and most honest of intentions, the sender is only communicating a timy fraction of the information needed for impression formation, and the rest comes out of my wishful thinking, accipitres, Interesting handle! Well how can he turn out to be different than the current pic that you asked for? CP 85% of our impressions of other people (in RT) are based on non-verbal messages, which are not under control of the sender. So that charming guy with the gift of gab who made me hot on the phone, may turn out to be a fat old man with bad breath who doesn't actually know where the clit is. That is not their fault; it is mine for confusing my fantasy with reality.
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