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LonDom61 -> RE: Profile content... Brevity v. Verbosity (10/29/2012 6:20:42 PM)
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OP: Like you, I prefer more content to less. I want to get a good idea of the person and how well their ideas & mine overlap. I'm also looking for the ability to express that. I'm a "get into her head" kind of Dom. The profile that lets me do that (depending on what I see when I get there) is a profile I like.
And there aren't hundreds of girls in my area to consider. So it's worth the time to read even long profiles of those whose basic details (location, age, etc) and pic interest me. Or details, even without a pic.
I also like to read others that pop up on my main page (in Canada we can't select by province. We have to scan the whole country...or use search for city/keyword.) Good as general insight.
But unlike you I don't consider "several paragraphs" did you say? as "verbose".
Mine is more like 30 paragraphs. Now THAT is verbose. More on that below the box.
When I read profiles, near zero content indicates to me that the poster won't interest me. It's an ad for you. If you can't find a few interesting things to say about yourself--and say them well--here...are you gonna be MORE interesting in person?
"Gee, I dunno what to write here. Go ahead and ask me..." Arghhh. Next.
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I will contact a woman with a great profile and no pic. I won't contact a woman with a great pic (ie hot) but no--or crappy--profile.
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ORIGINAL: xLaChienne
I'm often described as laconic. My profile is a reflection of Me.
I don't care if it is verbose or brief as long as it is a good reflection of the person writing it. Some people can be enthralling enough to want to read endless paragraphs. Others aren't. Some aren't inclined to it but are no less interesting.
My preference would be a short profile with pertinent information with thoughts and such in the journal area. I see the profile as the bait. The journals, when done well, can be the hook.
Animus and sexyred made lots of points I agree with.
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I quoted this one for a number of points.
The profile should be a reflection of the person. xLaChienne is laconic and her profile reveals that. Great. Folks know what to expect.
She mentioned verbose. Mine is...because I am. I'm a talker. So, in addition to the "lots of info about me" in the lines, the "between the lines" part is...there's a lotta lines.
Some have said x paragraphs. Others use 500 words as a benchmark. I haven't counted mine, but as a guess I'd say 6-800.
I've had a nice number of compliments on it. By women too far away to be "dropping a hankie". One said "you said it was long, but I found myself wanting to read more". They like it overall. Or some point in it. Or that it seems to give a good sense of me.
Some local/nearby too. They wrote me or at least dropped the hankie. Talking with a few of them now.
OTOH, anyone turned off by the length...just didn't read it, didn't email me and I don't know about 'em. That's one feature of having your profile do your talking. You don't see those who reject you at that stage.
But I may be losing/turning off some who I'd like to attract. The "profile as bait, journal as hook" idea is interesting (except the journal formatting is so crappy on page one; that and having to click through are friction; friction, in this case, is bad)
On my latest rewrite I did move a chunk off to the journal. May cut some more & move it there. Thanks for that LaC.
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