Depending on who you ask, your online photo may represent anywhere from 50-90% of the impression you make with potential online dating prospects. In other words, without great photos you’ll never even get the chance to impress your dates with a winning profile.
To say or not to say… that is the question that plagues many online daters as they ponder the completion of an online dating profile. Just how much should you divulge to maximize your odds of attracting the right prospect? To me, the answer comes down to three simple rules:
You’re browsing an online dating site when you come across the perfect profile. Time stands still as you give thanks to your Internet dating service for bringing your potential soulmate into your life. But how exactly do you convert an online encounter into an offline date?
I used to be able to make fun of people who used online dating sites without even trying. All I had to do was ask them where they met their date. They knew the stereotype. Online daters were losers who couldn’t get a date any other way. But making fun of my friends is not as much fun as it used to be. Online dating sites are becoming more popular than ever. Now a lot of these sites are targeting the mainstream and a lot of people I know have tried them.
Online dating has had a bit of a stigma for being for people who can’t get a date any other way. But in the last couple of years online dating sites have found a lot of new clients. These sites are becoming more and more sophisticated and attracting more mainstream members. Online dating has come a long way. Let’s go down memory lane to see how far we’ve come.
Our world is being taken over by a parallel universe. It’s called cyberspace. Everything we once had to get up and move to do we can now do through the Internet. You can buy anything on E-Bay, you can chat, fall in love through an online dating service, work, and even attend worship services. If Jabba the Hutt were somehow transported into our world without his minions he would do just fine as long as he had a computer with Internet access.
Dating was hard for me when I was single. I didn’t have the confidence to approach girls. When I went to Chicago for a summer job I didn’t know anyone. Some of my roommates were logging on to a website called Hotornot.com and finding some pretty cool girls so I decided to try it. You have to understand that I never would have tried online dating on my own or if I had a bigger group of friends in the area. I thought online dating was just for losers.