One of my biggest online dating site pet-peeves is not having a profile pic. If I can't see you, what makes you think I'm going to contact you, let alone meet you? I need to, at the very least, compare your photo to several online mugshot databases. There's a reason why Chinese restaurants have photos of almost every entree--so you know what you're getting. That reminds me, I need to help a friend put up some lost dog posters later.
Even when you have a blind date set up by a mutual friend, they show you photo or offer a verbal physical description. This usually works fine...except the time I was set up with someone who arrived at my condo and turned out to be shorter than me (having only seen a head shot). I'm only 5'2", so that's really something. Seeing as how I did not want to sentence my potential children to a life of seasonal employment wearing tights and jingle-bell shoes, we didn't go out again.
But, seriously, if there's no photo, how do I know that you don't have a tiger tattooed on your face? Your package in a deer skull? Or, worst of all, wear Affliction t-shirts? Proper vetting involves visuals. At least Pen Guy was honest.
And then you have guys who post photos, but are ambiguous in other areas:
Oh good, a person. That's just the kind of mammal I was hoping to meet. I'm so glad you have photos to back it up. But if just being a person is your occupation (that's what that line is really for, and you didn't mention anything to indicate employment or marketable skills in the rest of the profile that you left blank), I don't think I can support both of us on my non-profit salary. Sorry, dude, no sugar mama here. I'm more of an off-brand low-calorie artificial sweetener mama. Might I suggest you go buy a python and charge other single guys to take a selfie with it so you can have some real income and a career path. There's actually a market for that.
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