Leave a Comment | Posted by Shannon Steele on March 31, 2010
Yeah yeah, I know. DUH… people lie. We all do..ESPECIALLY ONLINE!, we lie like rugs, it’s in our DNA. Even if it’s something as simple as: “you look SO GREAT today” or “No honey, your REAR END does not look like an elephant’s in that outfit” But what is surprising sometimes is exactly WHAT OUR MEN ARE LYING ABOUT….
READY FOR THE TRUTH???
Online daters are not known for telling the truth in their profiles. So what fibs are they telling? That depends if it’s a man or woman who is doing the lying. WTOP-TV/Washington, DC, reports this how we lie by gender, according to a survey by Online Schools:
- Men lie most about their height and income, trying get women to think they are taller and richer than they really are. Specifically, they want women to think they are six feet tall and make at least $86,000 a year.
- Women tend to lie about their weight and physical build, leading men to believe they are around 118 pounds when the truth is closer to 148 pounds.
- There is one lie both men and women are equally likely to tell: Their age. While they may say they are 32 or 39, the truth is closer to 48, the average age of the online dater.
Eventually, the truth must come out, because couples who met online got married, on average, after just 18 months of dating, compared with traditional daters who marry, on average, after 42 months of dating. But beware: One in 10 online daters is a sex offender, and the porn industry blames the dating industry for its recent $74 million revenue decline.

















