re: Is anyone else extremely paranoid about dating apps?

I only started reading a few posts to this thread and it disappoints me. Is this what beautiful, successful, amazing women have to go up against?! [I can be rather confident… ;-)]

I am on Bumble now only after spending three month membership on Match to have 25% success. I say 25% because I had 2 decent dates, 1 in which we connected really well and "dated" for about 6 weeks. I figured about this point I would ask about exclusivity, just to be turned down. "I'm not looking to jump into a relationship." I wasn’t going to invest in someone who didn’t have the same path as me. Although I beat myself up for being the 'common denominator' for failed dating life, however I still think I am pretty freaking awesome. Maybe I AM looking for love in all the wrong places. Nonetheless, I sure hope to not match up with any of the negative posters on here. I still try to keep an open mind with online dating, because I do see success with them. I can easily count five couples I know whom have met on online dating sites.

I would agree that first impressions are BIG! However even attractive men share the wrong pictures. And it’s an immediate turn off. On a personal preference, I think that shirtless mirror pictures give off that he is looking for more of a sexual encounter, and that’s not what I am after. Or that he’s full of himself and has to blast his “masculinity”. I like pictures with smiles and cute candid shots where I can see his face, body language, and sense of style. After that, a creative short profile bio is effective.

But who am I to critique men’s online dating profiles, because in the long run I am still single too!