~ How To Date Online ~

There are countless articles and pages that contain a lot of dating tips for people using online dating services. Sadly they include only a few interesting things you need to know and hardly explain why you need to do some things instead of others. All of this changes here.

So get comfy and start reading. Feel free to comment to this article below if you have any positive suggestions or criticisms. Thanks in advance.

Email Accounts

Use a new and different email address to use just for online dating services. This keeps your business and private life away from people that use email addresses for business and personal contact with you. There’s enough free email services out there (pick a good one from Mail.com) that you really don’t have a good excuse for not taking this step, except for the fact that no one ever told you to do this. That’s why I’m telling you. It’s a good strategy for being able to control your email contacts and if your dating email address loses it’s usefulness, for instance it’s deluged with spam or someone you’d rather not have your email address any more contacts you through it, then you can just get another one and stop checking the inbox of the now abandoned email address.

Profile Suggestions

Be as honest as you can all the while only adding to your profile the information you would tell a stranger you just met. You will be tempted to lie about your age, weight, salary, job and a host of other personal attributes, but really, all you do is embarrass the person you meet and yourself. Stay honest!

Picture Suggestions

Keep your pictures to the tame side of your life unless you’re in an adult, sex dating service where a little more flesh showing is the norm. You basic profile photo should be a casual shop cropped to show your head and shoulders. Never include a second person in your primary personal ad photo (I’m surprised how many people don’t understand this) and throughout your profile photo album if there are extra people in your photo identify them only as “girl 1, boy 1 or person 1, person 2″ etc, or by a first initial only. And unless it’s written in stone behind you and clearly legible in the photo don’t say where the picture was taken, that is, don’t mention the name of the place you’re at.

Answer The Questions

People visiting your profile will only know what you write about yourself. Answer all questions in your profile questionnaire and any questions you’re uncomfortable with answering, if it’s an essay type question at the very least write in “I’d prefer to answer this in person” or something to that effect rather than leaving the question’s answer field blank. Answer as many of the compatibility questions, surveys and such even if you have to return to complete them later on or the next day. It’s these answers that will match you with one or more members from the millions of members currently registered and you do want to use this particular dating service to your fullest advantage, right?

Where To Start Online Dating

If you’re new to online dating you want to start at one (or more) of the larger online dating services. By starting with a dating service that has millions of members you have a greater opportunity to connect with others and learn the correct ways to initiate contact and reply to messages, both which are important to write correctly so you will get a reply. I suggest starting with:
- Match.com
- eHarmony.com
- DoYouDate.me
- aLoveLinksPlus Dating Great
- plentyoffish.com

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