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Online Dating 101

Online dating is all the rage. With all of the on-line dating services, social networking outlets, and Al Gore pumping global warming propaganda into the media every seven seconds, you really can find anything you're looking for online. Long gone are the days of going to a bar and being forced to leave with the slovenly yet disarmingly charming chap who'd be a project just for some company on a lonely November night. Nope, now you can sift through the options to your heart's desire. It's like a sperm bank, except hopefully one with a happy ending.

Ironic huh? You go to the sperm bank you get all the responsibility without the happy ending. You go online dating you potentially get both. Don't you see how exciting it is? It's so excited that I'm pretty sure the ghost of William Shatner just cracked a smile! Yay. With that said, here are some simple rules to online dating, as with any medium, there's rules to this game. Play fair, soldier.

1. Be honest

While I'm sure you might be able to qualify as a doctor in some countries, there's no reason to pretend here in America. Besides, you can both just watch Grey's Anatomy and pretend together. Stick to the facts and everybody has full information so that there's no disappointments upon meeting, or at least none that involve you both standing up.

2. Use current pictures OF YOURSELF

One of the worst situations to be in is meeting somebody for the first time and you realize that the picture they took was them...10 years ago. Everybody was hot at 18. If you're 30 and some things have shifted places or you've drunk 126 too many beers, don't pretend you're still in tip-top shape. Me? I'll walk out on a person who's photo-lied to me. It's the principle of the matter. Especially considering you're probably still attractive anyway. Only cocaine, too many drinks and hard living can truly disappear the beauty without. Just be you.

3. Don't be judgmental

While we're all a little bit judgmental, fact is, who the hell are you to tell somebody that their likes or dislikes are immature or unbecoming of a woman you'd date (or man you'd date). If you don't like somebody, keep it moving. That's probably why you can't get a date now you jackass, you.

4. Create a real dialogue

DO NOT just jump into the sexxy talk. It generally doesn't work at the club so why would it work in a place where people are actually screening prospects. Also, never believe a woman who tells you that if you just want sex you should just say so because maybe that's all she wants too. It may be true, but she does not want to hear that. Trust me.

5. Take a chance

You never know who you might meet online. Okay, you won't meet Kate Winslett, but maybe somebody equally as adorable and interesting. You're already only; clearly you have nowhere else to go for dating. Have fun with it and be adventurous.

Follow these rules and you might have a fun experience and find you that soul mate.

Or not. But either way, you clearly have nothing to lose.

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Chantelle

Great points. Maybe this is a personal pet peeve but it's seems counterproductive to join a dating site and not put any information about yourself. I have grown tired of seeing the same "I have a hard time talking about myself" "Do I really have to write this?" "I'm just looking for what's out there, not sure what to expect"

Or the classic job answer "I have one"....great...

Why join a dating site only to come off as lazy and curt? I'd actually admire someone who said "I'm lazy and curt" haha

Dektora

"the ghost of William Shatner"
Ok, you would have freaked me out a bit there if I hadn't seen him yesterday at the Olympics hockey final.

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Right, Dektora? He totally scared me with that comment. Oh, no, did I just admit to being a Shatner fan? I think I totally killed my own chances of finding love online...

Panama, I agree the most with #1, which really applies to #s 2 and 4 as well, if you think about it. Honesty in all its forms is the only way two people can get to know each other. We all use some form of subterfuge to attract a mate, but if you're so insecure that you go to that level of trickery, you are not going to find the validation and approval you seek in a digital sea of people. So yeah, I'd say truth is the most important thing, whether it's got washboard abs or not.

I keep my photos current so when I'm going to meet a guy I say, "I'll be the girl who looks like my picture." Him showing up with a few extra pounds is not a dealbreaker, but one guy I didn't even recognize until he introduced himself. It looked like I was having lunch with my uncle, and him trying to make flirty talk didn't help. Ew! Okay, I have to go suppress that memory again...

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