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needbeachnow is offline needbeachnow Post #1  June 16,2011, 6:24am
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Good tips I noticed a facebook friend commenting a lot on one womans pictures- every picture, I was curious so I looked at her page which she didn't have anything set private. I was thinking wow, she is REALLY pretty, good job guy- she's gorgeous, but as I was looking through her pictures, she started to look a little familiar... I dug through some mail and found my victoria secret magazine and what do ya know- she was on the cover  I felt bad because I didn't want to crush his dream, but I also wasn't sure what she was trying to do- maybe she just liked all the attention or maybe it was a scammer. I asked him if he'd actually ever met 'her', he hadn't, but they talked on the phone every night and things were going really well... so I told him to check out the website- he confronted her and she deleted her profile...
 
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I recently had a match from Match.com who had used photos that I recognized from an image-sharing site. They were of handsome men in hard hats on a construction site looking at architectural drawings.

If you see enough pictures you can start to see the ones that have been professionally taken because the lighting is very different from the pictures we usually take, both indoors and out.
 
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I have strong opinions about the profile pictures. NO picture at all. Close. Glamour pictures. Archive/Close. Just pictures of match with friends. Archive. No candid picture or play snapshots. Archive. I could definitely tell if the match was being candid or open by their profile pictures.

One match was insulted when I made a comment about her profile pictures. Sorry, didn't say anything bad, but guess she was really hung up about her pics. Kay. Bye.
 
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annother wrote :
I recently had a match from Match.com who had used photos that I recognized from an image-sharing site. They were of handsome men in hard hats on a construction site looking at architectural drawings.

If you see enough pictures you can start to see the ones that have been professionally taken because the lighting is very different from the pictures we usually take, both indoors and out.
It is bad to have a professionally taken photo on your profile
 
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Hmm, since I am on no social media web sites does that make me "safe" or scary
 
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Gr8Guyn2008 wrote :
It is bad to have a professionally taken photo on your profile
The picture I referred to earlier in this thread was one that I had seen in a completely different context. It was in promotional material for a business and had been taken from a website that provides images for that purpose. My reference to professionally-taken photos was with that in mind.

There is nothing wrong with a person including a professionally taken personal photo in their profile. If that is the only photo, though, I would wonder why there were not more pictures taken by friends and family.
 
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