I recently decided that I had been single for long enough and I would join the thousands of other people who used online dating services. I was lucky enough to decide to use this service on a day that was free, meaning I could correspond with other members for the whole weekend without having to pay. I jumped on this and signed up and started messaging all the people who were selected as being compatible matches for me. There was one guy who I seemed to hit it off with right away. We exchanged about 5 messages that evening, learning everything about each other. He was a teacher who loved books, God, sports, dogs, similar music. I was really starting to feel like this service actually had something to it. And then we decided to exchange photo's. I don't consider myself superficial or someone who cares that much about looks but as soon as I saw this guy's photo, I panicked. I felt so bad, he wasn't attractive and I was no longer interested at all. I promptly deleted the email and deleted the account and haven't been back. I still think about that experience everytime I think about online dating again; ...