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Monday, October 23, 2006  
Personal Ads on Craigslist

I'm rather entertained by personal ads, particularly the ones people post on Craigslist. You'd be surprised how many guys are out there with unabashed Asian fetish and how many older men are looking for college students who are "openminded and need a little help." My perusal of the posts has uncovered a few things.

Things not to put in a personal ad:
  • "I'm bored." If you're easily bored, you're probably not a very interesting person. You're supposed to be telling us why you're worth a potential date's time, not saying, "I can't find a way to entertain myself."
  • "Looking for someone with a sense of humor." Who isn't? No, I'm looking for someone that never laughs and can't appreciate a joke. That would be interesting.
  • "I'm attractive." In a forum that makes posting a photo easy, why tell us that you're attractive? Post a photo and let the viewer decide. What's funnier are the people who post photos and extol their attractiveness--usually they're not.
  • Grammatical problems. I understand the occasional typo--it happens to the best of us--but when someone writes a sentence like "watches TV (even though i dont get to do it often)"--and this was taken from a real post--I'm sorry, but my estimation of your intelligence drops a few levels.
  • "Looking for someone normal." Who wants normality? Normal people are boring.
  • Lots of disclaimers. "My friends would say I'm [insert adjective here]" or "people have said I'm [insert adjective here]." Just say what you're going to say and don't apologize for it.
  • ALL CAPS. BECAUSE I EITHER HIT THE CAPS LOCK KEY ON ACCIDENT OR THINK THAT INTERNET "SHOUTING" WILL GET ME MORE ATTENTION. In reality, your writing just becomes harder to read.
  • "I'm intelligent." Oh really. Like the aforementioned attractiveness, I'll be the judge of that. (Hint: it helps to use complete sentences, real words and punctuation if you make this claim.)
The winner of funny/scary post of the day (unedited):
looking for a cute asian girls to date they are so fine

so like the post says looking for a cute asain girl but overall I'm looking for someone that is cute and fun to around. I'm 5 foot 4 god looking a student and work full time. interested hit me up an I will send a pick.


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