Internet Dating, why do they do this?

[MrsSnape]

I got a message off a bloke last night on a dating site. I looked at his profile and he seemed decent so I replied to his message.

This morning I got an email from the site saying the same bloke had been looking at my profile yet my message box was empty.

Why do they even bother sending the initial message if they're not interested? It's not the first time this has happened.

Do some of them just send a load of random messages to people to see who'll reply?

yes probably i have sent a load of messages to people on the understanding that it is a numbers game and fairly random as you cant tell anything from profiles or predict who will reply or how it will go

i must have sent at least a 100 messages out over a few months

and only ended up meeting two people it is like job applications

some people did end up wanting to meet me but i rejected them in the end

it is all pretty harsh from both men and women

oooh zippi me old pal - how are you getting on?

agree with zip on these messages - I normally don't bother reading them, sometimes I think people look at the pic but then something you write they don't like etc etc.

still have to turn over all the stones to find our prince right

i am getting on very well ...we had a fun weekend

i am spending a lot of money tho

[slight hijack but, DTM, do you know that yer man Tennant is presenting the Friday Night Project this week??]

as for the OP, I am not sure I understand the mechanics of what you say happened but, yes, it is a numbers game and people do send loads of random messages. When I internet dated years ago before DW, I always made a point of personalising the messages to those profiles I was genuinely interested in. I did this by referring specifically to something they said in the profile or by at least using their profile name in my message.

When I received messages, I only took any notice of those which followed the same principles as above...