Online Dating Tips

The Times of India recently published an insightful article on faux pas of online dating. In this article on dating tips they summarized research done by OKCupid.com.

Here are some of the tips in that article.

Avoid blatant flattery that includes words like "sexy, beautiful, and hot"
Instead of this I recommend that you look for something you really like in the person's profile and
explain why you like those things.

Proofread your messages. A typo shows you are not paying attention to details and don't care that much about your first impression. It's a good idea to run your message through a spell checker before you send it.

Don't ask for someone's email or phone number right away. That's pushing it too much. Get to know someone first. I suggest inviting a person you are interested in to meet you at a coming Professionals Guild party. The advantage is that will have already exchanged a few messages before meeting face to face. These days we are offering more and more events. For example, in Sacramento we cosponsor weekly FREE salsa dance lessons and parties.

In the East Bay we have hikes, soiree, tango lessons as well as huge parties at Yacht clubs, country clubs, and hotels.

Lately we have also been having weekly online chat meetings. Private chat rooms are also available so you can invite someone who seems interesting into a private chat room.

Don't go overboard and write too much. Don't write messages that are several hundred words. Try to be brief and to the point. Writing an extremely long message could be a put-off.

In ProGuildSocial.com how do you send private messages? First, click Members, then click on advanced search and put in some search criteria. For example, to find people interested in hiking, put hiking in the "interests" field. Then click search.

Once you find a person, go to their personal page. Then click Add as friend. At this time you will have the option to send a personal message. Type your personal message before completing the operation. To see a video on this click the following link:

Sending private messages.

Here's a tip that's not in the article: Beware of scam artists and spammers. When you go to a person's page, you can see how many other people he or she invited to be friends and you can see how many comments he/she left on others' pages. You can go read those comments. If you see one person leaving the same or a similar message on many, many pages in a short period of time, you might suspect that person of being a spammer. We recommend that you never send money to anyone requesting it no matter how genuine they seem to be.

For more details you may want to see the original article. You can find it by clicking on the following link:

Online Dating Tips