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psgcooldog is online now psgcooldog Post #1  April 26,2010, 7:12am
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Yet another questions for the ladies here:

My profile name is "psgcooldog". Through a distinct lack of imagination, it's just most of my email address.

The "cooldog" part is because my business is named "Cooldog Technologies", and that is because I had a dynamite logo ---- a photo of my very handsome pup Clyde, sitting in the sun, wearing a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers.

So I had absolutely no thoughts of any "dog" implications, in a social or sexual context.

So my question is this: does that profile name give you any initial doubts or worries on that score?

Nobody has said anything about it, but it just hit me last night that it could potentially be an issue.

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It would matter on where you are using this ID. Do you mean after you talk on some other site you give them this ID? By then I would assume you've mentioned your business so it shouldn't matter... and if it might, then give a small "notice" with your ID and say something about your company.

It's not "booblover69" or "BigDaddySweetCheeks", so I think you're okay
 
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qp106sd wrote :
It would matter on where you are using this ID. Do you mean after you talk on some other site you give them this ID? By then I would assume you've mentioned your business so it shouldn't matter... and if it might, then give a small "notice" with your ID and say something about your company.

It's not "booblover69" or "BigDaddySweetCheeks", so I think you're okay
It's on POF. Actually, I don't mention anything about my company by name ... just that I'm in the computer field.

Here's a link to my profile review thread: http://advice.eharmony.com/boards/da...-revision.html (Cooldog's interim profile revision)

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"Cooldog," to this post-grad educated, Eastern, liberal 45-year old academic female would be a bit of a red flag without knowing where the name from. (I am pretty sure that I have seen "Cooldog" as a profile name on some of the non-paying dating sites I've checked out, and maybe on Match.) Other demographics might find it entirely otherwise, and of course someone in your local area might be familiar with your concert series.

(I checked out your profile: the concerts your organize sound great to me! It's too bad my guy & I aren't in the Delaware area.)
 
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Iconography wrote :
"Cooldog," to this post-grad educated, Eastern, liberal 45-year old academic female would be a bit of a red flag without knowing where the name from. (I am pretty sure that I have seen "Cooldog" as a profile name on some of the non-paying dating sites I've checked out, and maybe on Match.) Other demographics might find it entirely otherwise, and of course someone in your local area might be familiar with your concert series.

(I checked out your profile: the concerts your organize sound great to me! It's too bad my guy & I aren't in the Delaware area.)
Thanks. Darn ... I thought that might be the case. I'm "psgcooldog" on POF, Match & Zoosk, and I think it might be best to change it.

Search Google for houseconcerts in your area. I assume like most people, that you've never been to one; if you go, you'll thank me for the push. Best way to see & hear live music ever!

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Match & POF name changed to "LiveMusicCTO".

Not brilliant, but nothing remotely offensive either...
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On eHarmony and Chemistry it is customary to use your actual first name (or the name that family and friends call you by).

On other sites it is customary to use a non-identifying screen name. I don't see anything negative in "psgcooldog". This would certainly be the case if you make mention of where "cooldog" comes from.

Now your new name "LiveMusicCTO", I can see a negative in this one. I don't know what the "CTO" in your screen name stands for but to me it would mean "Chief Technology Officer". This would, to my way of thinking, be sending the message or "I am a rich executive, so date me for my money". I doubt that is the message that you are trying to send.

Having been on Match, POF and several other dating sites for quite some time I really have not used someones screen name as an method of evaluating them as a person. I suspect that if I had a match that is using my screen name to evaluate my potential as a date then I probably would not be interested in dating them.
 
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Gr8Guyn2008 wrote :
On eHarmony and Chemistry it is customary to use your actual first name (or the name that family and friends call you by).

On other sites it is customary to use a non-identifying screen name. I don't see anything negative in "psgcooldog". This would certainly be the case if you make mention of where "cooldog" comes from.

Now your new name "LiveMusicCTO", I can see a negative in this one. I don't know what the "CTO" in your screen name stands for but to me it would mean "Chief Technology Officer". This would, to my way of thinking, be sending the message or "I am a rich executive, so date me for my money". I doubt that is the message that you are trying to send.

Having been on Match, POF and several other dating sites for quite some time I really have not used someones screen name as an method of evaluating them as a person. I suspect that if I had a match that is using my screen name to evaluate my potential as a date then I probably would not be interested in dating them.
The CTO thing is mentioned in the profile --- and somewhat minimized, as it should be (I'm hardly "rich").

On the other hand, I'm not an unemployed drummer, either.

We'll just have to see what the reaction is. Iconography is pretty squarely in the demographic I'm looking for, so I tend to give her reaction significant weight.
 
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I have to agree with Iconography that your current name is and was a red flag to me... I pondered for a few days before I decided to let you be my "friend" on here because of it.
The story of how you arrived at the name is certainly innocent enough. The red flag, for me, was I had a bad match with another kind of dog and I don't trust men who have dog in their user names as a result.

I think that a slightly gentler name might suit you better and be more appealing to women. Something like "CoolClyde" would make me prick up my ears as there are a lot fewer Clydes than dogs around the internet I think.
 
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I don't see any problem with either of the screen names you have or had. Like qp106, I say as long as your chosen moniker isn't something vulgar or insinuates sex in some way, you're good to go.

I've declined communication with men who have offensive screen names. I'd post one or two, but don't want to get mod'd.
 
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