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Cut and paste messages: Friend or foe?
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Cut and paste messages: Friend or foe? I am the first to admit I am not really a lover of the good old cut and paste message but received two mails recently one made me laugh and one got instantly deleted due to content. Yet both made my brain whirring. The one that made me laugh was very clearly a cut and paste, well clear to me anyway. Copy of message as follows Hi There Come on over here, that's it. Pull up a chair sit yourself down. Want to chat ? I would love some fun with you. I tried to get you in IM to no avail so I looked up your profile and thought I would drop you a line. I am very impressed with your straight talking on your profile. I would like to think I have good conversation and humour, but good looks is in the eye of the beholder. I would love to chat with you on IM on here or messanger if you have it. Would be nice to hear from you. I did try to get you in IM to no avail... I love good conversation and a laugh. What ever the subject especially if fun. I have a photo if interested. How was it obviously a cut and paste to me, well I did feel the need to reply to this message giving him three tips. First tip, if your going to do a cut and paste, don't paste it twice in the same message. Second tip, you might want to drop the IM portion as I never use IM so the likely hood of you seeing me on it is really slim. Third tip, if you had read my profile as stated you'd know I already ask for a photo. The one that I deleted can be on Vixen1982 post email of the day if you want to give it a perusal. I'm including this as it didn't even register in my brain that it was a paste job. Possibly due to its content as if he had given my profile a quick glance then he'd of seen I'm not into water sports. Yep your all going to have a look now aren't you! It was only when I read vixens post that I knew it was a paste job. They made me wonder how many messages do we get where we just don't realise they are a cut and paste. Do us women only say we hate cut and paste, due to the mass of clearly dubious messages that we get? The first message I received although not applicable to me may be very applicable to others. How many messages that actually get us interested are nothing more than an extremely good cut and paste? I have it on good authority that cut and pastes do work and work often. If your going to write one you'd best make sure they are good, as the only thing I'll say for sure is done right they can be your friend and done wrong they will be your foe. But please at least give the profile a quick read to make sure its somewhat applicable. What is your view on cut and pastes? |
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The message you send out should be tailored to the person you are trying to impress. A generic message will always sound impersonal and insincere. [post 3097853] Come join the half-nekkid fun! Check out HNW Bloggers.  
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5/7/2012 2:03 pm |
How can every message be the same ? As we are all different people with some sort of different wants and needs . But again this is Senior Sizzle and not much should surprise Us . Even though it does . And i also Love the Guys who bitch and moan about meeting women on Senior Sizzle . When they put next to No effort into their Profile's or emails .
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a cut and paste massage to communicate with someone..."ouch"...that hurts...some people just don't have a clue  some times the things that comes from between my ears makes me pause for reflection
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1 post 5/7/2012 2:30 pm |
so true honey i know exactly what u saying....i do a lot of that stuff too but its ok...thats fishing i guess!!
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69missb replies: I want a massage now. Is it a case of actions speak louder than words? My response is still "ouch" I think that what people say and how they say it does "means something" but at the same time one or two words might very well descibe the same thing as twenty. I try my best to be as creative as I can and sometimes I fall short...sorry  some times the things that comes from between my ears makes me pause for reflection
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But... If you look at the advice on how to write introductory emails to women (often cited by women) then you'll see a boring format that encourages cut and paste - a bit about you, a bit about her, a bit about why you like her, a bit about why she'll like you, a bit of humour (not too much), end with a question so she has to answer (  ). This lends itself to cut and paste, just change some of the details and away you go - just make sure you change the name in the first lineWhat's more... back to the analogy of the job application... when applying for similar jobs you do use the same letter! Maybe fine tune it a bit, but when you are saying the same things then why not say the same things?! And... some women's profiles are so bad and give away so little to be honest it's not just that you can't think of anything original to say, those profiles don't deserve anything original! I avoid such profiles Finally (  ), it's not that easy to come up with a brilliant introductory email - before laughing at some men's attempts (and I do realise that isn't what you are doing here) I think women should first make the effort themselves so that they see how hard it is to be successful "cold-calling" - and we can all have a laugh at their efforts
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It should be noted that the vast majority of men and women on this site have no interest in blogging and probably aren't too linguistically gifted. Though there is a new blogger who complained about the emails she received, but whose profile is along the lines of "I hate doing this, is this 50 characters yet" - but with worse spelling Also women don't have to write the shit out of introductory emails - with the ratio of men to women here, coupled with the fact that the vast majority of women don't send emails (or even respond to them), any email would be sufficient... And why don't male bloggers laugh at women's attempts? Rule one of blogging for men - never complain about women!
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