As more generations have become familiar with the online environment, you’d think that they all reached the standard level of communicating and dating on the web.
Sadly, many are still very clumsy or simply fail to apply the common sense rules, valid on the web as much as in real life.
If you are doing the following, you need to reconsider your approach immediately:
1.) Being desperate
Being desperate and showing it never worked in anyone’s favor.
This is displayed in simple ways in online dating, such as: suggestive nicknames (Single Man, Lonely Girl etc.), an account of scarce relationships, a statement about the length of time you’ve been single for, or describing how awful you feel because you don’t have a partner.
Some individuals believe that stating such with honesty will trigger compassion and get them some attention.
Showing despair in anyway is negative because it’s not an attraction factor.
2.) Poor writing hygiene
Not caring about how your online dating profile is written is a sign that you are lazy, uneducated, careless and more – the list goes on.
It’s not impressive to fail to capitalize letters when needed, to skip punctuation or shorten words.
Follow the rules of a good writing hygiene and your profile will show that you respect yourself and well as others.
3.) Insisting on one aspect only
Whether it’s sexuality, a hobby or something else, no online dating profile should be based on one thing only.
If you reduce your online persona to one single thing, you become boring to most people. Also, you could come across as obsessed.
Supposedly, we are all complex individuals and there’s more than one aspect to each of us.
4.) Posting random pictures
Photos on your dating profile are not required just to prove that you have a face.
Be aware that people are making serious judgments based on the pictures you provide and this may not be as vain as you think.
Post flattering photos and avoid the ones that are blurry, that make you look sloppy, pictures in which you seem “crazy” or “funny” or those which show you surrounded by many members of the opposite sex.
This will not point out that you’re great fun, seductive or friendly, but rather silly, embarrassing and definitely a player.
5.) Not conveying any meaning
Although some profiles appear to be highly descriptive, they don’t say much in fact.
Sure you are “social and outgoing”, but does that mean that you like going to festivals and getting drunk or that you enjoy a meeting with friends in a pub or at a picnic?
There can be huge differences whenever two different people use words like “fun”, “social”, “outgoing”, “interesting”, “intense” etc.
In the end, dating is about discovering what two people have in common and what can unite or eventually separate them.
This is valid on the Internet, too.
You don’t have to act like all you want to do is to “sell yourself”.
Also, keep in mind that making one single mistake in an otherwise great dating profile can ruin your chances and chase people away.
