First impressions count... for nought?

I found myself wondering if first impressions, particularly online, count for anything. We're all trained and attuned to filter people fast and ruthlessly...I have the same profile as here on a vanilla site. Recently, I was approached. The initial email was... how shall I say, not well written. Subsequent emails weren't much better. However, the substance was of interest, so we exchanged numbers. The text messages were diabolical, almost illegible. They were also pushy, insistent, making me think they were written by a man. I was beginning to think I was going to land a big ol' catfish.So, I progressed it to telephone conversation. What a surprise. Intelligent. Articulate. Interesting. And, a woman (shock). If was close to shutting it down within two emails, and again after a couple of text messages. Anyone else found first impressions to be unreliable?

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