It’s always fun to see what people choose as their screen names when they decide to try internet dating. One of my favorites is “sweetpoontang” (I’m not making this up), a 32 year old woman from Kennerdell, Pennsylvania.

I had an interesting encounter with “French Stud.” He winked at me and I emailed him back:

Not sure about the “French Stud” part – I hope it was tongue in cheek. But curious enough to email you back.

You could be interesting!

He emailed me back:

Hi,
No the frenchstud no just like you said, one thing my English is not that sharp (after 20 yrs) what is tongue cheek?
If you want you can get me as frenchstud on yahoo messenger, I know I know here again the stud part LOL.
And I am very interesting, LOL

Well – what can I say – I had to meet him for a drink. The “what is tongue cheek?” won me completely over.

We met at the Sonoma Grille in downtown Pittsburgh, and had a very nice time. He was a true gentleman, and was not impressed with the women he had met through Match.com.

He told me had canceled his membership because he had met 8 women, and they had all been “what would you say, white trash” – women who would have “laid down with him” the same night he met them. He was not interested.

Now I did have the heart to tell him this, but if you choose “French Stud” as your screen name, you will attract a certain type of woman. Just like women who post provocative photos or call themselves “sweetpoontang” will attract a certain type of man. If that’s what you are looking for – great – but if it’s not, you can’t blame the people who respond to you for having misunderstood.

Companies spend tens of housands of dollars coming up with a brand name for their products. Your screen name is your “brand name” – think of your target market and choose appropriately.


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