Tips for Dating at Online D8

If you’ve ever made an online dating profile before, you may have had an extremely easy time finding thousands of unique matches that you didn’t know what to do with.

Or you may have found a plethora of unwanted contact from people with usernames such as “sxc_hot_rod59″, “proteinshake92″, and maybe even “onenightstand52″ with pictures of nude appendages that normally reside under things required in society (commonly known as pants.) Or you may have found the last thing to visit your online dating profile to be a virtual tumbleweed.

This generally happens because of either plain bad luck or, more commonly, a thing considered to be a vanilla profile which is a boring, plain (you guessed it!) profile that generates next to none interest. What I want to do in this piece of writing is to give you 7 tips for making an online dating profile that works. You’ll learn how to attract good (and hopefully great) matches, generate more interest in your online dating profile, and filter out undesired people before they even contact you.

1. Be as truthful as you can in your profile. You wouldn’t lie to someone when you meet them for the first time in a blind date, so you shouldn’t lie to someone reading your profile. Furthermore, if you end up meeting someone who contacts you based off embellished facts, you will automatically put up flags with the other person. Plus, who would want a relationship where the foundation is based on facts that were stretched too far?
2. Fill in every field! Filling in every field of your profile makes you interesting, it makes people who are interested in how you describe yourself want to learn more about you, and it gives you something to talk about on the first date.
3. Take a picture and pin it up on your profile. Studies have shown that dating profiles with pictures get anywhere from two to 50 times the contact than a profile that lacks one. And do keep in mind that your picture should focus on your face, not your body. This helps to keep the undesirable contact to a minimum.
4. Make it interesting. For most people this is one of the most important yet most overlooked fact when making an online dating profile. Instead of saying “I like reading.” and falling into the vanilla profile trap, say, “I like reading Lewis Carol’s novels because he explores the idea of time.” The more specific the things you put as far as your interests go, the more interesting your profile becomes and the more likely someone who is interested in similar things will contact you.
5. Be positive. It’s just’s that simple, be positive. Instead of saying what you don’t like, talk about what you do like. Being humorous, intelligent and romantic in describing things you find humorous, intelligent or romantic are all things you should strive for when creating an online dating profile.
6. Filter who contacts you. When you write the response to “You should contact me if…”, do not write “If you are funny and like to have a good time.” Write something that should show who you are interested in. A much better response would be, “If you are between 24 and 28, you have a cleanly shaved face, and agree with the statement that ‘chivalry isn’t dead.’”
7. Above all else, be yourself! You are the one creating this profile. You are not Fernando from the latest episode of Bleeding Hearts. You have faults and you have unique traits like every other human does. Use them and find a match!