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Online Dating - Stand Out From The Crowd!

Author: Jon White Author Ranking Blue | Posted: 13-04-2006 | Comments: 0 | Views: 317 | Rating:  (52) Article Popularity - Blue (?) Got a Question? Ask.
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It's now a well documented fact that over the last three years, online dating has become arguably the most popular activity on the net. This being the case, how do you stand out from the crowd when you first sign-up to your chosen site? Remember, popular dating sites attract hundreds, and in many cases, thousands of new members every day which makes it all the more difficult for your profile to get noticed by prospective partners with whom you might be compatible.

If you follow these 10 simple steps, I guarantee that your online dating experience will be a successful and emotionally rewarding one:

1. Complete your profile. This sounds obvious doesn't it? Well, you'd be amazed at how many people can't even be bothered to even complete the tick-boxes when creating their on-line identity. If you make it obvious that you couldn't care less how your profile appears to other members, you can't really complain if no-one can be bothered to respond to you.

2. Choose an appealing username. Your 'Username' is your on-line name as opposed to your actual one. Make it snappy and 'fun' and if it says something about who you are, then that'll get you noticed. For example, if you work in a creative field, then something like Mr Creative or ArtLover will reinforce the point.

3. Don't be modest. Remember, you're trying to sell yourself to complete strangers so if you think you're pretty darn attractive, then now is the time to shout it from the roof-tops. Similarly, if your successful in whatever field you work in or if you've been blessed with artistic skills or sporting prowess, then say so.

4. Sound interesting. If you describe yourself using anodyne, bland terms like 'nice person' or 'various hobbies', then these will have no real meaning with anyone who is reading them. Most people are 'nice' and most people have 'hobbies'. Avoid the 'so what' factor at all costs.

5. Omit the negatives. If you're feeling a bit low and lacking in confidence after a recent break-up or messy divorce, then you mustn't convey this in your profile. No-one will want to mail you if you make it obvious that you have the weight of the world on your shoulders. Sound upbeat, confident and happy in your life and you'll find that this will resonate with people who are browsing your details - sound miserable and people will give you a wide berth.

6. No sexual innuendo. This might seem obvious to most of you reading this, but a great many guys actually try and sell themselves using suggestive or inappropriate terminology. If you go down this path, you'll be ignored by everyone else on the site - guaranteed.

7. Upload a photo. This point is absolutely imperative in the online dating marketplace. 95% of people who join dating sites only search for members who have bothered to include a photo with their profile. After all, you want to see what other people look like so it stands to reason that other people will want to know what you look like too. If your pic isn't a particularly flattering likeness, you can always say so in your profile. And don't use an abstract, an image or a cartoon. Only a full facial shot of yourself will get you noticed.

8. Be proactive. Don't just join a site and wait for other people to make contact with you; search for members using your chosen criteria (age/gender/location etc) and when you come across someone with whom you think you might be compatible, then write to them and tell them why. If you're serious about finding romance at your dating site of choice, then don't sit around waiting for Mr or Miss Right to drop in your lap.

9. Write great emails. This rule particularly applies when you're mailing someone for the first time to introduce yourself. Don't just say 'I like you, please write to me', take a few moments to respond to specific points in the profile of the person to whom you're sending a message. If you come across as interested and interesting, you're message is more likely to generate the kind of response that you're hoping for.

10. Log-in regularly. On most dating sites, when you log-in to your account pages, your profile will automatically move to the top of the search listings making it that much easier for other people to notice it. Also, the more often you visit the site, the more you'll be able to keep up to speed with the latest members, any one of whom could be just the person you're hoping to meet.

So there you have it - none of the above is rocket-science, just plain common sense. So when you join the millions of singles worldwide who are embracing the online dating revolution, make sure that you stand out from from the crowd and a new and exciting romance could just be a mouse click away!

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What are the craziest/most creative/most interesting ways to 'bail out' on a bad date?? Looking forward to hearing some interesting repsonses!

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Okay, I met this nice fellow who worked at a high-end sports clothing shop. Immediate impression was he was gay -- neat, tidy, well groomed, slightly feminine voice. This person also turns out to be a fly fishing guide. Spends entire summer sharing small cabin with other male fly fishing guides. I hire him to take me and my hubby and son fishing. Our humor (I'm a woman) is very similar and we have a blast and he starts flirting. Next, he starts calling me just to say hi. Then he show up at my office to say hi. Then he professes lust and love via an email message. I'm flattered and confused. By the way, he is a writer. He worked for a major newspaper covering gardening, the arts and hunting/fishing topics. He is pursuing me even though I am married. I really like him as a person and the friendship turns into a brief romance -- mostly email, three very sexual encounters, then angry break up. During our one-month relationship, he disappears to visit friends, family and I never know where he is. This was a dumb situation to get caught up in. I'm left wondering if this man is struggling with his sexuality? Perhaps going after someone like me (married) was a diversion? I wish we would have left it at friends. Now he is just angry and friendship possibility out of the question. He is a struggling writer, he lives in his parent's cabin and just seems miserable as he puts it "because he couldn't sustain his love for me...and this makes him doubtful about himself on many levels..." I just saw this whole thing as a bad and reckless decision made by both of us in the first place. I think my "friend" is gay?

Need a relationship counselors help on this one
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I was with my girlfriend for 3 & 1/2 yrs and we broke up a month ago. I sent her flowers twice since then and she just told me to stop sending flowers because it was making everything harder for her. She lives in a house with 4 other girls that are all single and they are all in college, and I think she is just trying to be part of the group and trying to experience life being single again. I started dating her when she was a senior in high school, and I was already a junior in college, she lied about her age when I first met her and when we started dating, she finally told me the truth. I was already in love with her at this point and disregarded the advice from my friends and continued the relationship. She is now a junior in college, she went to the same one I did so that we could be together, and when we broke up, she told me she needed her space and that she didn?t know who she was as an individual and needed to know what life was without me, and she also said there were things that she wanted to do at college that she couldn't do while being in a relationship. Pretty harsh since only a month before the break up, we were talking about moving in together the next year. But at the same time we were arguing a lot and actually spent a few days apart not as a couple, especially on her birthday. She told me on her birthday that she cried half way into the night because I wasn?t there, and we got back together for another month. During this month we were growing farther apart, and I felt it more on her end by listening to the constant complaints she had about me because I never complained about her. She was upset that I was not going right into the work force after college and she did not have faith in my plans for starting an online business. We used to have this little anniversary every month to just celebrate the day of the month we got together, but as time went on, we stopped celebrating our anniversaries like we used to. I used to write her alot of poems, almost one every month, but as our relationship went on, the poems slowed to a halt. At this time, I had already graduated school, was living back at home with my parents, and was in the middle of getting a start-up business going. I spent a lot of time on the business and my ex was still living at home because it was summer and she lives close to the school. As the summer was coming to an end, she was also getting ready to move into this house with her friends and I went on a small vacation with my friends, so we weren't spending as much time together. During the vacation she mentioned not being happy and sounded like she wanted to break up, and I was not giving her the attention she deserved while I was away on this trip which made the situation even worse. I was spending tons of time out on the lake and couldn?t bring my phone with me and I simply didn?t care thinking that there is no way she would ever break up with me because of all the things we have said and done for each other. So at the end of the summer when all her friends moved into their new house for the school year, she was definitely trying to break up. I took her out to dinner and I knew then that things weren't right, she had a look on her face like she knew that she was going to break up with me later that night, and she did, but she just said she needed her space and some time, she even mentioned a few months, and then told me she wasn't looking to "hook up" with other guys. The next day, she told me about not wanting to be in a relationship anymore. 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