Hello, after reading through the other reviews I thought I would add my comments.

I am (I really am!) young, highly educated, fit and easy on the eye. And, I would say i'm a pretty nice person. Since moving to vancouver, I've discovered three of my new girlfriends are also on lava. They are also gorgeous, both inside and out!! Too good to be true you say?...

Some of you out there sound angry and disillusioned about the whole thing. I suppose there may be a lot of fake profiles out there, but I happen to know of a few profiles that are the real thing. What's more, there are a lot of real guys out there as well! I've had a great time with every single one of the dates i've had from lava. In a few cases it hasn't gone any further, sometimes because of me, sometimes because of them. I have made quite a few really good friends from the remainder. I actually even fell in love with one guy, who i would never have met in any other circumstance, but then I suppose he decided I wasnt right for him :(. But that is part of it and I move on.

You are probably not doing yourselves a service if you approach an interaction with 'this is fake, this is going to be a waste of my time'. The other person can pick it up on it, i certainly can, and it is a turn off. Also, i guess you have to trust that the other person knows what they want. If it isn't you well... my attitude when that happens is its too bad, their loss, and then I move on.

I have interacted with a few a**holes as well, but i refuse to lose my 'innocence' about the whole thing. I choose to see the best in people and trust I will just find out sooner or later whether it's true. Knowing that is my attitude, I don't get as disappointed when the reality is not quite what i'd expected (and really, it never is, only sometimes the reality is actually quite nice, not too bad!) My god there are so many people on internet dating!! And so many different types of people as well. I don't expect to find the perfect person after a couple of weeks on a place like lava.

And also, interestingly, because of the people i have met so far from lava, i have actually changed, what i want has actually been slightly modified, am actually becoming something new. Those people contributed something to my life whether or not we are still in contact. That's the only thing about my profile that's probably out of date i guess, i should fix that....