I don't know quite how I found this information, but to basically sum it up, someone did an experiment on POF where they set up an account both as an attractive female and an attractive male. The female was swarmed with dozens of pages of messages a day. I mean stupid amounts. The male profile had several messages a day of girls openly asking for ONS's. The point being that this is something I think everyone can gain some sort of knowledge from. This has given me a wickedly awesome idea with which I will use after the final end of my current experiment.

I plan to eventually create a secret profile of a female user on POF, Zoosk, and OKC. I desire to collect data on the types of messages that men send, and further more which ones are most likely to catch the eye. After extensively viewing profiles and reading countless messages, I plan to duplicate those men which were most successful in creating attention. I am of course not attracted to other dominate and masculine males, but I find the experiment worth conducting to report back my results to the forum. I also plan to use the forums of POF to mass effect and have open discussions with several women about the men they find attractive. Once this has occured I will revise my profile and tell you all of my results.

Anyway , I seek to duplicate the experiement above, with a few goals in mind.

1.) The creation of a successful profile.

2.) Systematic understanding of messaging techniques.

3.) Understanding of how to "set up" dates etc.

4.) And finally to understand the female thought process of a "certain" demographic of women. This experiment will only be to enhance my results with women who are of caucasian descent and are at least 28 years of age or older. Those continue to be my best results. I have gotten little traction from other demographics at this point.

The above project will be called COSOPP or, Creation Of a Successful Online Profile Project. The target goals are previously mentioned above. Start date will be as planned: March 17th, 2013 starting at 3:26 PM. End date will be April 19th, 2013 at Midnight. Results will be tallied and interpretted from a period of April 19th, 2013 - May 5th, 2013. Results will be thoroughly reported in a series of online journal diaries beginning June 3rd, 2013 at roughly 5:00pm central time, and will end June 31st, 2013 at midnight.

One intial concern I have for this project is my lack of understanding of the female mind. Although this is an attempt to better understand it, I can never duplicate, and thus my own interpretational bias as a man might effect the results. To combat this, I will have to confer results with those of other women from plenty of fish. And steadily collect data. A woman assisting me on this project would actually be hugely beneficial. I will investigate the possibility of a woman's assistance on the project. I will let you all know how this goes.

Any ways. Read this ( http://www.happierabroad.com/forum/view ... hp?t=13056 ) and judge for yourselves.

I've decided on putting some more limitations on the experiment. Because I do not have infinite time or resources, I will limit my results soley to POF. If this experiment proves successul and insightful, then I will expand it to other sites such as OKC, Zoosk, and Yearbook. For now, my entire effort will go into POF, since it is the place where I get the most replies and I've managed to achieve 3 n-closes.

A few additional things that I will add to the experiment. Inspired by the link from above I will make a profile for one woman (as previously planned), and one man. The man will be "attractive" according to the female view of things. He will be x, y, and z. It is important to understand what will "attract" females to a profile and how much attraction plays a role. In addition, I will see what sorts of messages are sent to this attractive male, from what types of women. I may expand it to two men, one white and one black, both in their mid-20s. But for now, I will limit the experiment to two accounts to prevent collecting too much data. Again, this experiment is just for fun and to see what I come up with. My expectations may be wrong. We'll see.

I've been lurking the forums for a while, and finally decided to register and post.

Anyway, I did this same thing just yesterday, but did't go so in-depth. With the permission of a friends wife, I started a fake PoF account using her pictures. She is maybe a 7 if the lighting is right, and I used only three pictures, none of which could be construed as sexual. I set the account as a 24yo caucasian, non-smoker, average body, no kids, looking for LTR. Pretty standard. I left the about me section purposely vague, and it reads "I'll don't have time to fill this out, i'll get back to it later" (albeit in a roundabout way, since PoF actually won't let you put "I'll fill this out later"). I don't plan on answering any men or leading anyone on or doing any kind of sociopathic shit like that. This is just an experiment to see how many messages an average woman on PoF really gets, and what kind of competition I'm up against.

It's now 23 hours later, I'm still sick ( ) and my fake account has 47 messages. Of those, 46 are so cookie-cutter as to be laughable. "Hey, I'm Billy", "How are you?", "Hey, wanna chat?" etc. A few said they liked my profile, a few mentioned the pictures. The only exception was a joke made about running away and getting married. I didn't think it was a very good attempt at an opener or even humor, but at least it was different. Also, it was the only message that was over 10 words long.

Granted this was done on a whim, so it's not as in depth as what the OP plans on doing, plus PoF might place some kind of priority on new accounts, and the number of messages might slow down after a few days. But it's still telling, especially regarding what the other guys are doing. There is basically no competition for someone who has even the slightest bit of skill. Also, I believe the volume of messages means a greater emphasis should be placed on the opener (though oviously the profile pictures are important as well). Keep that in mind the next time someone complains about online dating (which is just another tool, and not a replacement for real world interaction).

Yeah Mr Jowee I also saw what you said in my other thread. That thread was just letting dudes know of the decreasing quality of online dating. But it has it merits. As for your reply in this thread, this was my suspicion. Not suprised, but did your female friend ever check the messages to spot the ones that were most attractive to her? Or was this just you testing out the idea? I for one would like a female eye on the subject.

Just me testing it out. But trust me, you don't need a woman's opinion to tell you the messages were of no value. I'm not exaggerating about the brevity or lack of effort put into them. It's as though the general population really has zero skill, and makes me wonder if any of them have actually had any success online.

These are the first ten messages verbatim:

• -"Hey what's up how are you doing tonight"
  
  -"By how's it going"
  
  -"Hey how are you??"
  
  -"i want you to be my hippy" [hippy is a reference to the screen name I used]
  
  -"You are just the girl I'm looking for and I'm not gonna give up on you I'm Chris and I would really like to get to know you ! You are so adorable " [This was his second message in 5 days, the first being about the same thing]
  
  -"Hey I'm jeremy"
  
  -"Hi cutie!"
  
  -"Hey there"
  
  -"Hey, how ya doin?"
  
  -"hey gorgeous how are u today? "

I could list over one hundred more that are on the same level as these. Five or so guys have sent messages more than once since I created the profile, but no one has messaged three times. I've received two or three that are requests to go on a date. I still haven't received anything overtly sexual, which is rather shocking.

Hmmm, I think I've personally sent out hundreds of custom tailored messages which were much better than the above and have gotten little traction. Not 0 traction, but little. I suspect that the above may not be the entire case as to why women don't contact back men. I have delayed the start of my experiment due to midterms being this week. This was unforeseen during the period of conception.

Interesting experiment but what's the point of using a picture of an attractive male? Everyone knows that being attractive makes sarging easier.

To show the importance of a profile picture. It proves that the profile picture of you holding an AK47 while wearing flip flops, a chewed up baseball cap, and a pit-stained t-shirt are holding you back more than you might think.