I met my current guy online. Unfortunately he lives very far away (I wouldn't do that again, btw) so we did form an online relationship first. (I totally agree, btw, with your philosophy to meet 'em quick so you can find out if there's any attraction in real life or not).
Anyway - I sent him pictures of me, fairly realistic ones I thought (in retrospect, I probably could have picked more flattering ones). I was pretty sure the pictures on his profile were old (guys do that a LOT in my age group)so asked him if he had more current pics.
He sent me a cute pic of him and his grown daughter. He was obviously older (his goatee was now white) but still looked cute to me.
We kept talking, finally made plans for me to come meet him (okay, I invited myself up for my vacation!)
Then later he sent me pictures of himself out biking, with his bike helmet on - the guy in those pictures looked OLD.
By this time, I'd really gotten to like his chat personality - but I'm starting to wonder if I'm gonna get there and find some doddering old man!
Much to my relief, he turned out to look just like the cute picture with his daughter - with the addition of nice dimples when he smiled. Phew!
(I still don't know what he was thinking, sending me those awful biking pics of himself - maybe he was trying to scare me off?)
He told me later, he was quite relieved to find that I looked like my pictures.
