I am going to be extremely frank…I am not at all interested in dating. That transpired over the last year or so, where my general interest in dating just stopped.

Obviously, you don’t meet people in the same ways as you did before, like leaving your house. These days it’s mainly dating sites like Hinge or even Facebook. My experience with dating sites has been less than stellar over the years.

It always starts out promising with good conversation and then you give them your phone number and that is when it all starts to go downhill. All of a sudden, their freak flag flies. Not to say I have not had some crazies right out the gate, that were instantly deleted.

How hard is it to have normal conversations? I once had a guy tell me that he didn’t use condoms. This was someone I was just talking to, we had never discussed sex, and we had not even met. We were not at that point and here I am receiving a text message regarding condom use.

There is also the lying on dating profiles. I always say that anyone can sound good on paper, including myself, until you meet them. The number one lie that I run across is how tall the guy is. Listen we all have preferences when it comes to dating, whether it be height, eye color, hair, etc. While I have gone out with guys that are shorter than my preference of 5″10, it doesn’t do it for me. But if you start with you are 6″ tall and I meet you and I am looking you dead in the eyeballs with no heels at my 5″2.5, it’s very off putting.

You have the messages that look like they put no effort into, with just a “hey.” If you are online dating and you message someone, read the person’s profile, pick something out that you saw and ask them about it. Is it so hard to put the effort in when we are interested?

I think that if you are doing the online dating thing, that your profile should be honest. But I just find that with anything that is online these days, it’s easy to hide behind a computer screen and not be the truest form of yourself or in some cases maybe you are. In the digital age it is easier to be freer with your words when you are not face to face with a person, but that doesn’t mean you have to be crude.