6 Ways To Screw Up Online Dating
July 6, 2010 Posted in College, Dating & Sex, homepage, Hook Ups, Populars
Say what you will about online dating — it’s creepy, full of killers, just plain dumb. But it’s a sign of the times, gentlemen, and yields more value than trolling around Facebook looking for former classmates gone fat. At the rate you’re going, you’re just a hair away from winding up on DontDateHimGirl.com. Here’s how to look better on what is – OK fine – a little sad and borderline shady activity. Just tell that to the millions of people who’ve had success on there. Follow these tips and you might be one of them.
1. Snapshot
Guys love to say they don’t have many pictures of themselves, so they often post portraits of everything from their junior prom to first failed marriage. But c’mon, your senior picture…from high school? Do you really think she’s not going to figure out how way off it is when you meet?
Rule of thumb: If she couldn’t pick you out of a police lineup from your profile pic, don’t go with that one. Ditto for token self-taken cell phone shots in the mirror. They don’t make you look “so cool” that you can’t be bothered with this. Instead, you look a creepy loner ‘cause you have no one else around to take a damn picture for you. Best to sport a normal shot without other dudes around, especially if they’re hot. I mean, that’s just not right.
2. Shirtless Pics
OK, so the first question that comes to mind is: Why are you naked? Truth be told, this may actually work for some of you semi-naked people — if you want an equally naked chick in her profile. But the bottom line remains: To the vast majority of the population, a shirtless guy with a big tan and (usually) buff bod screams A) full of himself, B) Needs to prove himself, which could be a problem down the line C) “The Situation,” which may or may not be bad depending on how you feel about fist pumps.
3. Ex’s and Oh (… brother)
At a club, it might be great if hot girl is rubbing up on you … if you ease past her — for us. But on a profile, there’s no need to post an engagement-style or bar photo of you and a past flame. The girl may make “Jersey Shore” girls look like Miss America, but that doesn’t matter. Surely you can find a way to flaunt the one thing we’re evaluating: you.
4. First-Email Proposals
Let’s be real: flattery gets you everywhere. So tell every girl her pictures are beautiful and her profile stands out in the abyss on online dating. You’ll make her smile. But you still don’t know this girl. Laying it on too thick will sound disingenuous or even a little crazy. Though laying it on too little could sound generic. Best to make like you read her damn profile, liked it, and even lie and say why she stands out. Most people have insecurities, and if she didn’t, being on a dating site should do it.
5. The Talk All You Want Plan
… gets you nowhere — if you haven’t met. You could be Hemingway in prose, J. Timberlake on the phone, Tiger Woods on text, and have your wedding planned before the first date. But when you meet, all of that goes out the window … and you start from square one. Chris Rock once said, “When you meet someone for the first time, you don’t meet them, you meet their representative.” Their representative is even more misleading online. So just meet. It’s a more realistic assessment and less waste of your time.
6. Down and Out / “I’m Bored”
Sure, not everyone’s Little Miss Sunshine. We get it. But before someone knows the good about you, it’s easy to walk away at the first signs of woeful complaining about girls you don’t want to meet, or being overly negative about life or anything else. It’s not being fake, it’s feeling out your audience. In this case, they’re perfect strangers who you’re trying to attract. So lay off the whining until she breaks down and complains about everything under the sun. Then you can jet, or let it all out.
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i met a guy online and i told him ok we'll be friend's just friend's buddy now it's been two plus year's and were still only talking on the comp he will never call me and i really could care less i have a fulfilling life so i don't need him yet alas i have some rather regretable mementoe's from this man ugh i want my eye's back eye and ear rape ugh
Pretty one sided take. How about the girls with the "I think I am a model" photo, or the I like my hair in this one so I'll just cut the half w my ex (or current) boyfriend out and noone will notice. And the female race is just as guilty if not MORE guilty of posting the 10year old photo that you just cant let go of…
Or the girl who doesnt want to meet and says she is "just looking" but really she is unhappy in her current relationship but too insecure to actually be alone for a little bit while she searches for another one?? On-line dating may be casual and inconspicuous but its still dating for arguments sake. dont put yourself out there unless you are really available.
While, If a guy did that he would be considered cheating….
Jeez, if your going to do a piece at least tell both sides of the story, not ALL men are socially inept. And a great deal of women are just as bad if not worse…
Number '5. TALK ALL YOU WANT PLAN' I can SO relate to…I did on-line dating for a while…had a guy 'wink' at me and so we began e-mailing each other everyday for a week–about 12 e-mails between us…that is a lot… we had great "e-mail chemistry" and I kept waiting for him to ask for my number and/or to set up a date but he didn't so I finally brought it up that I wanted him to ask…he said something to the effect that it was too soon and wanted us to e-mail one another for a while longer and I thought 'why?'…we knew more about each other than most people do when they begin dating, that is the nature of dating on-line with its profiles of one's self (pictures, history, education, hopes, what one is looking for in a partner, etc.)…i felt like he just wanted a "e-mail relationship" and/or was hiding something (a wife/a girlfriend?)…and he wouldn't give me a time frame for when he wanted to take things to the next level…he was vague and evasive about it all…finally in exasperation and feeling as if we would never move pass the on-line phase i ended our communication. i just don't get it. why would someone not want to met as soon as possible to see if the chemistry is real and get things started…its just a waste of time and emotional energy not to, if it turns out that you don't have in personal chemistry with someone the longer you wait to met them.
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