With friends like these...

...A kind and well meaning friend has today signed me up (and paid for) for a 3-month subscription to a dating website (without asking me or telling me - I hasten to add). I came home from the shops to find over 40 notification e mails that menfolk countrywide wanted to e mail me, on-line chat with me or just 'flirt' with me. That number has now risen to over 70+. It's rather too many e mails to trawl through and far far too many profiles to read. I have looked at about 6 - and turned away in horror.  All afternoon while I've been doing other stuff on the internet I have had pop-ups pinging telling me that somebody wants to 'chat' with me. It's awful - please, please make it stop. There are many, many desperate middle aged men out there - and some younger ones too - I've had messages from guys in their early twenties - please tell me what that's about? Freaky :)