My fav is the over-60 guy wearing a ball cap backwards! Clicking on That guy, yessiree!

I think this goes both ways. I’ve noticed a lot women don’t have a photo with them smiling. Some have a smiling photo, but with a filter. Some look like they are making faces. Maybe it is all selfies, but I wonder if they are afraid to post nice photo.

Or, it could be that women (from the time they're little girls) learn that if they want something, all they have to do is smile.While males typically only smile when they are laughing at, or with someone. Also, some people have over-bites, and are incapable of 'toothy' smiles.

Some people feel uncomfortable smiling for a picture. My younger daughter is this way. Someone may not smile in their pictures; but, in person, can actually have a very nice smile--when its natural--not forced.

I am really terrible at selfies. Bad lighting, reflections off my glasses and never sure how to hold the phone for a good angle. Even as a kid I hated having my picture taken. In everyday life I am smiling and laughing far more than serious face.

The weird thing is, when you join those sites, you have no idea what your competition is! You only see the pics of your intended partners. For all I know, every dude on the site looks like Jason Momoa.

Beyond this one, which I don't even really count, I don't do dating sites. My guess is that they want to appear cool? Or maybe "edgy?" Beats me. Living in a very small rural community in the Bible Belt, being an over 60 atheist, I figure the margin of men who are not crazy or annoying is so narrow that I don't even bother trying to sift through what's left anymore. Being single can be nice.

LoL I can't believe some of the pictures that women (I'm sure it's true for men too) put up on dating sights in hopes of getting a man to respond. Some have glamor shots that are years old, some look sour, or angry, or no makeup & hair's unwashed or unkempt... Yeah, um, no thanks.

I'm a guy and I might look sad in photos but if you are around me and we talk you will see that is not true.

I've bin drinkin' again,
And thnkin' of when,
You left me
But that was so long ago.

I've been havin' a few,
And whishin' that you,
Were here right by my side,
Oh yeah, oh yeah - I'm drinkin' again.

Photos aren't everything.

I've looked at so many photos since I arrived here - because of scammer hunting - almost everything I can now excuse as someone trying to look like themselves. As long as they aren't scammers.

Better than trying to look like someone else or stealing a whole bunch of photos from a politician in another country - or a porn actress. Both of those happen a lot btw....

However men over 50 posing shirts off? No.

Anyone using a filter to look 20 years younger.... ugh. It's like you've met the crypt keeper when they remove it.

Finding a date on a photo that means it's at least a decade old... oops!

And the ones catching a fish or killing any animal are going to piss off the vegans... so just avoid it unless hunting is your favorite activity and you can't live without it. (But ever since a vegan explained their view on fishing to me - I can't look at those either).

Pictures of you and your pet? YES! It makes for a relaxed picture. And we'll love you for it.

Wots wrong wiv ma profile pic!!??

Maybe my autism makes me a bit weird, because I read the words someone writes before I check any photos. Still relatively new here, and have decided to follow both men and women who write with clarity and thoughtfulness (and use the shift key).

I've done the meat-market-meetup sites, to no avail. Ageism is rampant, and the guy's fantasies seem to always get in the way.

I like this site--the intelligence and generalized acceptance is profoundly refreshing.

Awful photos are a non-gender-specific problem.