post a picture?

OH it is so true that a picture represents a thousand words... But what words are they?
Recently I have been browsing pen pal sites, all let you browse endless pictures, for free. I see young ones, older ones, happy ones, pensive ones, and of course pretty ones and ugly ones. Virtually all sites request a picture.
How to select? Would I love or not love a woman based on her looks? I think not.
There are 2 women here who post on this forum with pictures, both too cute. And I will admit that I have had the fantasy of a young pretty wife... a trophy wife... but who will I impress, that I want to impress, if I married a teenager? Why did these posters here select those pictures, attach them to their posts, if not to show how pretty they were? Would they actually want a guy because he selected them because they were indeed pretty?
Sometimes while gazing at endless photos of those looking for people... I ask myself, why did they select that particular picture? What message are they sending? Some are obviously professionally taken, what message does that send? I recently viewed a photo of a woman with a child, sitting with the child on her lap. The child newly bathed and hair neatly combed and parted, she seems to be in some far away place in somebodies back yard. And yet, her address was in Manila, not the mountain barranguy she was pictured in. Some have tight clothes and suggestive poses... what are they advertising, or do they see themselves as advertising anything?
I personally am not that into looking at old family photos. I have taken albums worth of photos but i found that I simply never looked back through them. When I selected my photo, it was the only one I could find at all. It was taken by an old customer of mine at his birthday party on the beach, then he mailed it to me on my birthday. The Photo says nothing at all about me.
So here you have it, a thousand words... AND NO PHOTO.
Abufarsi
Recently I have been browsing pen pal sites, all let you browse endless pictures, for free. I see young ones, older ones, happy ones, pensive ones, and of course pretty ones and ugly ones. Virtually all sites request a picture.
How to select? Would I love or not love a woman based on her looks? I think not.
There are 2 women here who post on this forum with pictures, both too cute. And I will admit that I have had the fantasy of a young pretty wife... a trophy wife... but who will I impress, that I want to impress, if I married a teenager? Why did these posters here select those pictures, attach them to their posts, if not to show how pretty they were? Would they actually want a guy because he selected them because they were indeed pretty?
Sometimes while gazing at endless photos of those looking for people... I ask myself, why did they select that particular picture? What message are they sending? Some are obviously professionally taken, what message does that send? I recently viewed a photo of a woman with a child, sitting with the child on her lap. The child newly bathed and hair neatly combed and parted, she seems to be in some far away place in somebodies back yard. And yet, her address was in Manila, not the mountain barranguy she was pictured in. Some have tight clothes and suggestive poses... what are they advertising, or do they see themselves as advertising anything?
I personally am not that into looking at old family photos. I have taken albums worth of photos but i found that I simply never looked back through them. When I selected my photo, it was the only one I could find at all. It was taken by an old customer of mine at his birthday party on the beach, then he mailed it to me on my birthday. The Photo says nothing at all about me.
So here you have it, a thousand words... AND NO PHOTO.
Abufarsi