Girls have 3 criteria for a 2nd date.

I'm not very photogenic. That must be it. Offline, in person, I get a fair amount of interest from women Im attracted to (although meeting a girl who's single AND can hold a conversation. . .). Online I get 'click delete'. Offline I get giggles, raised eyebrows, blushes, 'Oh, youre so INTERESTING/funny/smart/romantic' and 'You should meet my single friend.' Online? 'Youre not my type.'

I give up.

Three to three. That's the problem. Three is the number of criteria women have for agreeing to go on a second date. And that's IN PERSON on a first date. Men have 3. I'd guess that online the number of things that will lead you to click delete is over three ! Curious where I get these crazy ideas? Do a search for 'just one cynics opinion' and scroll down to my post about it. If all those musings on dating (amongst other things) makes you more curious, find the link to the blog I use for work-red insights. Incurious? I'm not interested, sorry.

In the meantime, I'm going to stop wasting so much of my precious time reading all your cute profiles and trying desperately to engage you in clever repartee, only to find you (not YOU, of course!) have posted 10 yr old pics, or don't have a recent full body photo up because 'average' body type takes into the fact that the average Canadian today is overweight. I have no problem winning second dates, ironically, it's getting you to reply to a message, let alone meet for coffee, that's the insurmountable challenge!

Let's face it, despite the theoretical appeal, online dating does not work, ladies. Humans are social animals, designed to react face to face. While online SEEMS to be a viable social medium, in reality it is virtual, a medium we were never designed to interact naturally in. Good luck, but youre not meeting the 'cream of the crop' because you simply can't recognize them online via a few pics and paragraphs, no matter how astute you're certain you are!

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