Online Dating Search Techniques
After you get your profile in perfect shape and posted on one or two dating sites, then comes the task of searching for likely mate candidates and sorting through the responses and results. Laura Gilbert of Match.com’s online magazine “Happen” has written an excellent article full of suggestions that will help singles in their search techniques. The fact that Gilbert quotes me in the article makes it no less fantastic. (You need to read through to end—I’m quoted in section #5).
Read the whole article for her in-depth discussion, but here are the points she made that I particularly liked:
#2 Go easy on height and weight constraints.
#3 Expand your age and location limits.
#5 Don’t get discouraged.
So may people are now listing online that it can be easy to get overwhelmed by so many choices. It’s all too easy to cut down the numbers by going for your ideal, ie: Tall, dark, and handsome, rich, and lives within a five minute walk. But every parameter you set ELIMINATES many wonderful candidates. The very best thing about online dating is that you have so many choices! Don’t eliminate the variety in an attempt to simplify your search. Take the time to thoroughly consider all types of potentials.
From Your Romance Coach, Kathryn Lord
How about go easy on the income constraints?
Occasionally, for kicks and giggles, I ping those who wants a guy earning 100K plus, particularly those not hot enough to command that, or those who make 25K.
I simply inquire politely if they intended to exclude 97% of the men who earn less than that, and inquire if that is an error.
Don’t get many replies, but I do wonder what they are thinkin’.
If the Geez made that type of bread, all the 15-30 Y.O.s in the Peoples Republic of Seattle would be in play.
The Geezer
Posted by The Geezer on 11/13 at 08:38 PM