Alright, folks, let's talk dating app photos. Specifically, those heavily filtered ones.

Seriously, Am I  the only one noticing how some pics look like they belong in a sci-fi or a horror movie, not a dating profile? I get them wanting to look your best, but when there're unrecognizable and just look like a pigs wearing lip stick, it's just...disappointing.

Honestly, I'd almost prefer someone just be upfront or just lie about their ages and use a recent, unfiltered shot. At least then you know what you're getting.

Anyone else feeling this? Should dating apps have some kind of filter regulation? Or am I  just being am old-fart ? Let's hear your thoughts!

worse is when and if you get to a video call and those same filters are in place 

 

 

Simply ask the other person for a video call.
 

Next. 

Isn't that what face to face meetings are for 

4 hours ago, banglay said:

Alright, folks, let's talk dating app photos. Specifically, those heavily filtered ones.

Seriously, Am I  the only one noticing how some pics look like they belong in a sci-fi or a horror movie, not a dating profile? I get them wanting to look your best, but when there're unrecognizable and just look like a pigs wearing lip stick, it's just...disappointing.

Honestly, I'd almost prefer someone just be upfront or just lie about their ages and use a recent, unfiltered shot. At least then you know what you're getting.

Anyone else feeling this? Should dating apps have some kind of filter regulation? Or am I  just being am old-fart ? Let's hear your thoughts!

Surely one would do  a vid chat, before actually meeting in person.   Though TBH, I never did, but that was decades past, when not really available like it is today.   Though possible, but I just didn't bother.

 

Back in the day, when Yahoo Chat was a thing.  Just a current photo was enough, and actually needed, as they were picking my up at the airport when meeting.

Why do you need one?

Always assume that she's 5 to 10 years older, and 5 to 15 kilos heavier, and that the photo is 5 to 10 years old. This is why when friends ask me for advice I always recommend spending no more than a couple of hours of your time getting to know somebody online, before meeting them.

 

I know some guys that communicate with women that they've met online for months, sometimes years before meeting them. For me that just seems beyond the pale, where is the self-respect in that?

 

You don't know who she is until you actually meet her, and spend significant time with her. 

5 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Always assume that she's 5 to 10 years older, and 5 to 15 kilos heavier, and that the photo is 5 to 10 years old. This is why when friends ask me for advice I always recommend spending no more than a couple of hours of your time getting to know somebody online, before meeting them.

 

I know some guys that communicate with women that they've met online for months, sometimes years before meeting them. For me that just seems beyond the pale, where is the self-respect in that?

 

You don't know who she is until you actually meet her, and spend significant time with her. 

And then after meeting them and being with them a long time you still may not know them

6 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Always assume that she's 5 to 10 years older,

A girl from a nail salon (one of the hundreds in Pattaya) that I know and talked with at her shop, goes for 32 yr currently, last year she was 36 yr. Her real age is 42 (should be 43 this year).

7 hours ago, Nemises said:

Simply ask the other person for a video call.
 

Next. 

The freelancers have no problem with a video a call.   

 

A lot of pretty girls on the apps. 

 

No lady drinks and and bar fines.  No bar hoping and BS. 

 

Dial them up from the pool side, and arrange to meet later.  It's the way of the future for Pattaya. 

On 3/10/2025 at 1:45 PM, KhunBENQ said:

A girl from a nail salon (one of the hundreds in Pattaya) that I know and talked with at her shop, goes for 32 yr currently, last year she was 36 yr. Her real age is 42 (should be 43 this year).

Does it matter if you like what you see and hear on a video call, and then in the real life face to face meeting? 

On 3/10/2025 at 8:45 PM, KhunBENQ said:

A girl from a nail salon (one of the hundreds in Pattaya) that I know and talked with at her shop, goes for 32 yr currently, last year she was 36 yr. Her real age is 42 (should be 43 this year).

And she can get away with it