Profile Pictures

I'm curious to know why some profile photos are so out of date.

The ones I've checked are at least 7 years old.
How would a date recognise us if we don't look like our out of date photos ?
I hate my photos, but I accept that's how I appear.

Unrealistic photos are a form of deception.

Some of us have tried to update our pix - see the Thread "Photos".
Unfortunately, the system has stopped working, even with JPEGs.

http://www.midsummerseve.com/thread/192602/1/photos

midsummerseve.com/thread/192602/1/photos

Oh, Thanks.

Has the system been down for 7 years ?

I've uploaded and rearranged my photos in the last week without issue


(I can't access the previous post)

I am happy to have no picture, met lots of people, not held me back as I would only want to meet people where looks don't matter.

Not sure I look much different. Cant remember when I last updated my photo...may well be due an update. It can wait a little longer though.

Yep, mines way out of date - but it's stated in my profile so there is no attempt to deceive anyone.

It's the most recent picture of me with a guitar.

If anyone wants a slightly more recent picture of me playing a guitar then hop along to Youtube and put Jason Twell in the search box.



Jason.

mine is from June 2019....need a winter one I suppose, now wheres my snowgirl outfit?...……..lol

I don’t think unrealistic photos are a form of deception unless they are used with the intention of receipt. I put my photo on here about six years ago and I haven’t bothered to change it. I’ve met a few guys from this site and nobody has commented. I might have said it’s an old picture to some and I would say if asked.

eurostar Sex icon 5-Oct-2019 19:28
mine is from June 2019....need a winter one I suppose, now wheres my snowgirl outfit?...……..lol

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Thanks for reminding me of a wonderful tune from way back.

I’ve kept the same photo although I look younger now than I did then.

For me, an up-to-date photo is essential.

I don't see any point of misrepresentation.

If I met a date and they didn't look like their photo, I'd be upset. Particularly if in fact they looked some 10 years older

You could miss the live of your life being too age specific.

Just reading about the BBC presenter Professor Alice Roberts, a very young looking 46 year old. Her 78 year old husband of 23 years died last July.

My friend's husband is 33 years older and they met when he was 72.

An ex colleague visited a patient who needed care. He was 75 and his carer wife was 102!

People aged 45 can look and act 95 and 75 year olds can be fit and healthy and have an active future ahead.

How can people judge their future happiness on a picture that is less than the size of a finger nail,?

Mary..."I don't see any point of misrepresentation"

I wouldn't see it as misrepresentation unless it was deliberately done to deceive, for example, choosing a photo of someone else. I have happily met up with people who had no photo at all. I would see personality as far, far more important than a photo.

If I met a date and they didn't look like their photo, I'd be upset. Particularly if in fact they looked some 10 years older

What if you met a date and they looked 10 years younger? Would you walk away? Chastise them for not looking like their photo? Feel you had been deceived in any way?

I can't see that it matters much what the picture is like if you're not here to date, which many of us, including myself, are not. I don't bother to even visit my profile page as again there's no point. And it's hardly deception when the date it was put up is shown clearly underneath.
I've thought of changing mine because I don't like it much but just don't see the point. I've yet to have anyone from this site not recognise me when they've met me.

I try to keep my portrait photo fairly up to date, (within five years-ish) but the other photos on my profile are quite old. However, it is not my intention to deceive anybody. I just like to keep them for old times sake.

I’ve met four of the people on this thread including the OP who has changed a little since we last met but I would recognise them all from their photos and besides, many people I know have looked the same for years.

Change the number I’ve met to five...we overlapped Cassis, but you too look just like your photo.

It's not an ageism thing.

The important things about a person to date are their personality, and looks.

Whilst looks aren't everything, they are important.

Having liked the look of their photo, and then discovered it's not a true depiction of them, it might change the attraction.

Fair comment. Especially if you have made a lot of effort or travelled some distance to meet them.

What Cassis said, my photos the same as I had when I joined, but then I'm not here to date and I don't really want to be a blue cut out. One of the reasons I've not changed it is because I don't have a camera and I have no idea how to put a photo on here anyway.

It only matters if you intend meeting.

What if you met a date and they looked 10 years younger? Would you walk away? Chastise them for not looking like their photo? Feel you had been deceived in any way?

I asked this question earlier. I’ve met ladies who have looked younger and more attractive 5han their photos.

I regularly moderate the profile photos on here so I'm not sure where the idea came about that it was impossible.

If you are talking about adding other photos and using the galleries option, I can't comment as I just deal with profiles... as I did with Mary's recently and Joolsy's today.

Send a photo over now and I'll deal with it.