Why Don't People Put Details in Their Profile?

It seems that the majority of profiles here are barely profiles at all, since they tell us nothing about the person.
How is an asexual lesbian supposed to know if she might like someone if they give nothing away?

I would guess its because they are worried about the privacy of their information. I have quite a lot of friends who are not comfortable at all with revealing stuff about themselves online.

Or perhaps it is because they simply want to read and talk about stuff and not have other women pursue them so they leave their profiles sparse to discourage people contacting them personally??

But I'm only guessing as I'm one of the few people who actually did fill her profile out.
:haha:

Cathy

I can't really see the danger in having something on one's profile, given people have to find the site, join (I think, to see profiles?), and everyone has a username.
Seems the majority of members neither post on here, nor have profiles filled out.
Lots of lurkers just reading it seems.

I was going to put more information and a picture in my profile until I realized that this forum is very public. Anybody with internet access can see all the posts and profiles without log-in as a member. I can even find my posts by Google search. I do worry about privacy issues, so I decided to only include a tiny bit of information about myself in my profile. I will be glad to provide a detailed profile in a private message though (if anyone is interested in seeing it).

Ooookay, that took a bit of work to find, but profiles are now only visible to members and not to guests.

As for posts being searchable on a search engine...there's nothing in the board hosting that will allow me to keep that from happening (such is what I'd expect from a free hosting site). I'm still looking into seeing if there is another way to keep that from happening, though- through code maybe if it's possible...

Edit: oh, too. If there's any specific forum(s) (e.g. meetups, maybe?) that anyone would like to be set to members-only, I'll be glad to do that.

Thanks Ace!

I just refilled out my profile today, and unless I am blind, which is likely, there doesn't seem to be a lot of questions asked anyway. I also may have misunderstood what was meant by the "interest's box" Are we supposed to put dating interest's in there or interest's in general?

Additionally I don't put up my real picture anywhere on the internet. Is physical attraction still a large part of being assexual? Looks are not at all part of the equation for me since I fall in love emotionally and automatically think anyone I love is beautiful. But that may be a unique perspective?

I read this forum today and realized that I did not have much information in my profile so thought I would give it a bit of an update :)

awwwe I read your updated profile. I think you added some excellent information.

What are you studying at University?

Thanks, I wasn't sure what to put really so just wrote a little bit.
I'm doing Tourism Management :)

That sounds like a fun job. One that would include lots of traveling, I presume.

Much Luck with it :)

I hope it will be. And yes that's what I'm counting on! Thank you :)

Welcomes :)

I think that finding a career or purpose or cause to care about is so important because women/people tend to be move attracted to confident people with goals. Plus it gives us something to fulfill us until we find Mrs Right. :)

I've always just assumes it meant interests in general...but hey, I guess whatever you think is relevant to put down lol

Interests in general seems a likely answer (nods)