Evil Experiment #1 part 4 - Subject Line Again?

After looking at every single message she was sent on POF over the last day and a bit, Celine says:

"What a bunch of losers. No one stood out enough to make me want to get to know them better, let alone go out on a date with them. I was bombarded by an avalanche of cliches and compliments, when you can tell all they are after is sex. If I was a dull nymphomaniac I'd certainly jump a couple based on their profile pics though."

Which brings me to another topic... I've interviewed those who I consider to be some of the most attractive women on Plenty Of Fish. I'm collating the answers to the questionnaire I sent out so expect to see a little more about how the other half lives.

But we're not finished with Celine's Plenty Of Fish adventure yet. I'd like to do a breakdown of the messages she received starting with the message subject line.

Subject Line

Here's a breakdown of the most common subject lines by frequency...

Hi - 69

Hello there - 25

Hey - 18

Hi there - 17

Hey there - 12

Wow - 3

Plus a bunch of others ranging from sexually explicit to "how R U".

Remember, these are just over a two day period. As you can see, the most popular subject line by far was "Hi". Women receive SO MANY emails on POF compared to guys that unless the subject line is more interesting than "hi", your message stands a good chance of being "unread deleted".

Guys, you don't need to start writing haiku in your subject lines, but put a bit of thought into it and at least make an effort to stand out from the crowd.

Evil Experiment #1 part 2 - Thinking Outside the (in) Box

Remember how ages ago I said that Celine had received 4 emails in the 10 minutes since she created her POF profile?

Her profile has been up for a few hours now and we're looking at the following statistics:

Profile Views: Countless (not including this data anymore)

Messages: 37

Favourited: 3

Gifts: 7

You're a popular girl Celine, you saucy minx.

Celine is still going through the emails and promises she'll get back to us shortly. As you can see, the competition on POF is gonna be tough. Before we delve into the content of the emails as well as the profiles of the guys who sent them, let's have a look at the subject lines. How many emails starting with "hi" can one girl get?

Lesson learned - Don't put "hey" or "hi" as your subject line for your initial email to women. It's boring and as you can see, they've seen it all before. 

How about this "Contains Gift" thing? 7 identical virtual bunches of lillies. I couldn't believe it! Celine didn't receive a single box of chocolates or even a nice steak. Freakin' purple lillies. I'm very disappointed guys.

Lesson learned - DO NOT send a gift in your first email. It's needy and a clear demonstration of lower social value - you need to bribe some poor female to read and answer your email? Plus, THEY AREN'T REAL FLOWERS - no-one's impressed by it and no one gives a shit how many (free) points you spent on such a wonderful gift.

And the Favourites... None of the three guys who favourited Celine have contacted her as yet. Favourites may be useful as a sort of bookmark, but you know... the girls can see who's favourited them just like you can. IF you're on any girl's favourites list you can also see when they last logged in - keeping track of someone's POF usage? Stalker FAIL.

Lesson Learned - DON'T FAVOURITE SOMEONE. It's not sweet, it's not impressive, it's creepy. Essentially you've favourited the girl on the off chance she might be as needy as you are and will contact you first. Not likely to happen. That's something that women (in my experience) do so unless you're ready to rip up your Man Card then grow a set of testicles and SEND HER A MESSAGE. What's the worst that can happen? Read-Deleted? Although, judging from the quality of the first 30-odd messages that Celine received, most of you are going to crash and burn. Here's hoping we can change that.