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likesmatureones 55M

4/27/2017 4:30 pm

perhaps they read your blog..I think that counts as "viewing your profile.

Others are married and just living vicariously...

perhaps they just enjoy looking at your pic..and that would trigger a "view"


Dreamcatcher__ 87M
7016 posts
4/27/2017 4:58 pm

You may be getting "ghost" visits. The profile visit is a very chancy thing on Alt. I find that i haven't visited well over half of the profiles that alt says I have visited. Many people claim that the sensor for profile visits is calibrated so that it registers a visit if a cursor rests momentarily on a thumb of a profile. Others think it may register if there is a thumb of profile on your home page when you are online.

To verify this for yourself, click the "profiles I viewed" link on your home page. See how many profiles alt. claims you visited that you didn't visit.

If you are in a chat room with someone and they click on your name it will also register as a visit, but it may mean nothing more than that they wanted to see if you were close enough to make an approach to you worthwhile. I check profiles just to see where women live sometimes, because I don't trust the straight-line distances alt. puts next to the location. I prefer to check to see what the highway distance is. If the drive is acceptable, usually less than an hour, I may make an overture. If not, I generally don't bother, though I wouldn't be rude or deny I had viewed their profile if they asked.

I also think alt. may sometimes register as a visit someone who visits a blog page on which you have left a comment. I noticed one woman in particular seemed to visit my profile every time she read a blog page on which I had commented. I finally asked her about it, and she said she had not visited my profile. We have since become acquaintances, and I may even ask her out for lunch someday since she lives near some friends of mine, but I believe her when she says she hadn't visited my profile.

I personally try to make it a habit to remain "invisible" when I view profiles so as not to create the impression that I am interested in someone merely because I was curious or because my cursor rested on a thumb of her profile. If I want her to know I viewed her profile, I turn the "invisibility" feature off for that visit, then turn it back on again. That way I don't create unwarranted expectations.


Schulleiter 72M

4/27/2017 6:53 pm

I've experienced the same thing. I even had people who I have expressed an interest in, and told me that they are not interested in me, keep visited my page even after I blocked them. Go figure???


juleslikesithard 58F
56 posts
4/27/2017 8:09 pm

I think when you open the whos viewed me page, it then sends a message to all those on the screen, that you viewed their profile.. I get emails constantly asking, why did I view but not contact them.. even if I have never looked at their page.


TheBargee 68M
16315 posts
4/27/2017 11:13 pm

Just running one's cursor over a profile photo counts as a viewing as far as alt is concerned; you don't even have to open that profile!

If you run your cursor down the list of who's on IM? Yup! You just "viewed" them all and raised their hopes!

Gawd Bless the Alt Monkeys!


DancingDom 74M
22444 posts
4/28/2017 4:50 am

I would say, as long as your not getting harassed or the really dumb messages, its is a plus for you to possibly get a free gold membership.

"One Big Sky Covers Us All Equally"


prpackaged 80M  
740 posts
4/28/2017 7:48 am

Need to have a specialist on ALT weigh in on this one. I enjoy having people view just wish they would interact at the same time. I am sure that a couple are looking because I was credited with looking. ALT loves the money but does not seem to be interested in fixing the problems.

The blackest lie is a partial truth that leads you to the wrong conclusion.



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