Online Dating Rules Of Thumb

Sometimes you find yourself looking so hard at the big picture that you overlook the smaller ones. The skin and bones unspoken rules of online personals haven’t changed much since the creation of dating sites. In case you’re one of the many who are having a hard time seeing the trees through the forest, we thought we’d take a look at the online dating rules of thumb!

Stick to one hour

When you’re entering the online dating world, don’t exceed one hour a day, but don’t short yourself of it, either. Any less won’t give you enough time to make a connection, and any more will leave too much room to message people you’re not actually interested in.

Get sexy with your subject line

If you’re interested only in sex personals, make that known! Don’t make people believe that you want a serious relationship if you’re only looking for sex. If you’re strictly interested in a wham-bam-thank-you-man situation, put it right there in the subject line. It will attract the people you want, and weed out the ones you don’t.

Don’t fall in love with e-mails

Although online dating sites are great places to meet new people, they’re not there to fall in love. You never really know who you’re talking to until you meet them, so put a conscious effort into restricting your feelings while it’s still online-only.

Keep your messages short and sweet

If they wanted to read a novel, they would have gone to Barnes and Noble. Keeping your messages short and to the point will prevent people from getting bored while reading what you have to say or, worse, skipping your messages all together.

Check out the competition

Want to know what other people are looking for? Check out the profiles of people who have been successful in online dating before. What do their profiles have that yours doesn’t? What information are they sharing that you aren’t?

Know who you’re talking to

If you’re going to try and juggle more than one person at a time online, keep your facts straight! There’s nothing more embarrassing then asking someone about their daughter when they’ve never had a kid before.

There you have it! The bare bones rules to online dating. Stick to these and you’ll be off to a good start!

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