I agree - be true to who/what you are
Fill your profile in properly. You dont need to be rude, simply clear. The air of mystery really doesnt help.
jeez i must have been going wrong somewhere in the past 5 yrs i've had a single fem account......never been bombarded with messages either in chat or as mail lol..but then again maybe my sarky rep precedes me, either that or i'm just an ugly old troll lol.
( n before someone picks up i have a cpl's account..its a very recent change)
In answer to the original question I think you should be honest..if your on here as a single fem and change your account to that of a couple, just so you can have a bit of peace then you are deceiving the genuine cpls out there looking for a cpl. There are block buttons to stop mail n im sure you can disable specific users in the chat room from messaging you (apologise if im wrong about this bit)....like i said have never been particularly harrassed lol
Chelle
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My thoughts are that you just state politely at the start of your profile blurb (Most clicking on a profile will at least glance at the first sentence) that,"Though your not wishing to offend you will not be replying to mail from people who are outside of your criteria", then ignore the stuff that comes unsolicited
lol so basically the overwhelming advice is be honest about your situation I think! I have had both a single fem and couples profile and can honestly say I have been treated exactly the same with both ie unsolicited whispers in chat, dodgy pics sent etc. Equally I have found whatever you put on your profile some will read it and many will not - but I agree with Ben, its best to complete as much as you can as it does help the genuine people.
If you really are open to all possibilities and dont want to block the unsolicited chat then Im afraid you will have to accept that you will get just that and will need to make your own judgement on how to apply filtering.
You can only change your own behaviour, not others - unfortunately :-)
one begins to wonder how the concept of multitasking women got about...........
Ideas for an uninviting profile pic...
No problem there Pebble m'dear :-| you can borrow mine....never gets much attention...not sure why?
I dont believe in restricting profiles in anyway. Have what you want on it, why should you have to not have stuff on it to stop the twats? On another site that is slightly different to this one we have an ad/profile that gets a lot of attention and a lot of idiot reponses. I have put two words in the profile and these words must be the title of any message sent. Message without those words just get erased and if they message again with smae mistake then blocked. Works for me, often log in and erase 8 messages without even opening them.