Assuming you at least have passably decent musculature and gave that bathroom glass a wipe – don’t use this snap for an in-your-face primary photo. Just don’t. Squeeze it in there somewhere between pictures 4 and 7. Bonus points if you have a cool premise like maybe being on fire.
6. MAYBE THAT PICTURE WITH THE EX YOU’RE STILL HUNG UP ON ISN’T YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD
Pretty self-explanatory.
5. BE ENGAGING
People spent a certain chunk of their lives they can never get back when they wrote their profile essays. So if all you have to say in response to all that information is a lazy “hi,” then don’t be surprised if you never get a response.
Unless you’re Ryan Gosling, that is.
4. RESIST THE URGE TO UPLOAD YOUR ENTIRE MUSIC/MOVIES/BOOKS DATABASE
Exhaust this on your Facebook or save it for the next fifty conversations when you manage to capture someone’s fancy. Assume that the attention span you’re dealing with is a lot more limited than common sense.
3. EXERCISE RESTRAINT
Just because you have access to someone’s Viber, Whatsapp, social media page, etc, doesn’t mean you constantly message them at 2am. Especially when you’ve inhaled one too many vodkas.
2. DON’T TAKE THINGS TOO PERSONALLY
The beauty of online dating is that you can choose to completely ignore someone without the mess of having to dole out actual rejection. Dating is carried out at the slide of a screen, at the push of a keypad, and at whatever opportune time suits you to pick up where you left off. In the same light that you can be on the receiving end of a snub. Know when to start investing emotion, otherwise just enjoy the entertainment.
1. PRACTICE SENSIBILITY
Granted, meeting my boyfriend dramatically shaped my perception of online dating. But it also made me realize that it’s just like any other digital convenience of a world made smaller by technology. The key is to equip yourself with all the information readily available. Half of the benefits come from effectively maximizing the platform, the other half is just completely beyond your control – just like the real life version. Only downside I see is if the online relationships stay online, but hey, if you’re a keen pen pal collector, then more power to you.
The view from the boy’s balcony, taken by the boy
Do you have your own tips and stories to share? Feel free to add them in the comments below!
10 Top Tips on How to Craft the Perfect Online Dating Profile
Sweet Caneos is a professional flow artist and pole dancer, who founded the first hula hoop community in the Philippines. She footnote fancies herself an “author” though the only literary work she has done before were 1500-word-minimum spiteful letters to ex-boyfriends.
10 Top Tips on How to Craft the Perfect Online Dating Profile
7. BE CLASSY ABOUT YOUR NAKED TORSO
Assuming you at least have passably decent musculature and gave that bathroom glass a wipe – don’t use this snap for an in-your-face primary photo. Just don’t. Squeeze it in there somewhere between pictures 4 and 7. Bonus points if you have a cool premise like maybe being on fire.
6. MAYBE THAT PICTURE WITH THE EX YOU’RE STILL HUNG UP ON ISN’T YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD
Pretty self-explanatory.
5. BE ENGAGING
People spent a certain chunk of their lives they can never get back when they wrote their profile essays. So if all you have to say in response to all that information is a lazy “hi,” then don’t be surprised if you never get a response.
Unless you’re Ryan Gosling, that is.
4. RESIST THE URGE TO UPLOAD YOUR ENTIRE MUSIC/MOVIES/BOOKS DATABASE
Exhaust this on your Facebook or save it for the next fifty conversations when you manage to capture someone’s fancy. Assume that the attention span you’re dealing with is a lot more limited than common sense.
3. EXERCISE RESTRAINT
Just because you have access to someone’s Viber, Whatsapp, social media page, etc, doesn’t mean you constantly message them at 2am. Especially when you’ve inhaled one too many vodkas.
2. DON’T TAKE THINGS TOO PERSONALLY
The beauty of online dating is that you can choose to completely ignore someone without the mess of having to dole out actual rejection. Dating is carried out at the slide of a screen, at the push of a keypad, and at whatever opportune time suits you to pick up where you left off. In the same light that you can be on the receiving end of a snub. Know when to start investing emotion, otherwise just enjoy the entertainment.
1. PRACTICE SENSIBILITY
Granted, meeting my boyfriend dramatically shaped my perception of online dating. But it also made me realize that it’s just like any other digital convenience of a world made smaller by technology. The key is to equip yourself with all the information readily available. Half of the benefits come from effectively maximizing the platform, the other half is just completely beyond your control – just like the real life version. Only downside I see is if the online relationships stay online, but hey, if you’re a keen pen pal collector, then more power to you.
The view from the boy’s balcony, taken by the boy
Do you have your own tips and stories to share? Feel free to add them in the comments below!
10 Top Tips on How to Craft the Perfect Online Dating Profile
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Sweet Caneos is a professional flow artist and pole dancer, who founded the first hula hoop community in the Philippines. She footnote fancies herself an “author” though the only literary work she has done before were 1500-word-minimum spiteful letters to ex-boyfriends.