Too Good To Be True: Dating Profile Headline of the Day
Filling in the blanks
You have to find a balance between what you’ll tell a stranger that finds your profile and what you’d like to share with them on a first date.
If your messages turn to private emails and chatting online, then maybe even phone calls remember this: the person remains a stranger until you meet them in RL (Real Life). My favorite saying is that you don’t know a person until you’ve smelled them.
We are all very good at filling in the blanks with what we would like to believe about a person instead of what is true. And you are very susceptible to filling in the blanks with positive, fantasy-like emotions about someone that you’ve met online and have spent many hours exchanging messages and even speaking with them on the phone.
I want you to ask yourself, continually, this question: Is this person too good to be true?
Follow these suggestions and you’ll be very successful when you date online.
For your profile why not try this headline to encourage people to read your profile:
“Which of my profile pictures do you like better?”
Have a great day!
Friday’s Conversation Topics
Who doesn't love a fluffy puppy?
And I don’t want to waste more of your time with my preamble, like I usually do, so here we go!
- Hospital mixes up ID of survivor and victim. Yes, we’ve seen this scene played out in plenty of movies, but the true horror is the real life event of grieving over the daughter that isn’t dead and holding a bedside vigil for the daughter that isn’t yours. Add this to the list of things I never want to do as a parent.
- “A revolutionary product and an unbelievable price!” So said Steve Jobs and the world gobbled it up, indeed, millions of iPads have been sold in just a few months. And the demand plays out in every country the device is available, so skilled are the developers, software writers and marketers that this one company holds sway over so much of our ‘consumer life”. Such good workers being sued by such stupid people. Personally I have yet to get one, my combination of desktops (including a iMac) and two laptops have me well prepared for any demand already. Of course, should I ever want to join Steve in the Apple controlled world and visit the entire web using the Apple developed safari-style browser that doesn’t render flash pictures, games, links, videos, etc., thereby missing out on usually the most popular parts of the web, well, when that day comes I will tell you. I won’t say I was almost seduced, several times, but I remain an iPad Virgin.
- I have moved and with that move I have opted for the fastest internet service I can get. Indeed, I’m the 4th person signed up for this service in our area of 80,000 people. Yes, my work is done better with less publishing issues slowing me down. Below is an image of my www.Speedtest.net measurement of my internet service and I’d really like to know what yours is.
I do have to add that my internet service is supposed to be 100Mbs and the average I’ve seen from Speedtest.net measurements is between 48Mbs and 55Mbs, which is quite a bit higher than Verizon’s home DSL plans and that you should know that I am paying 3.5 times more ($150.00 a month) than Verizon’s Turbo plan but have a higher consistent rate, I’m sure. I also have double their Fios plan rated service… Do you really get what you pay for?
- A self-guided audio tour in Klingon in a very interesting place. Yet another reason why all those Saturday afternoons with my “beq” have not gone to waste. Now I just need to be transported to the Jenolan caves, west of Sydney, and speak the “language de jour”… LOL.
- What you drink affects people’s opinions of you. Now, I might be stretching the point of this article, and the study it brings to attention, but I do think the logical conclusion that would include pictures of your online dating profile should not have pictures of yourself drinking obviously alcoholic beverages because of the possible conception that you are “less intelligent”. Hell, someone had to say it first, right?
Rubixx.xcom is fun!
Rubixx.com, a new “meta search engine” for dating services says that to searches multiple dating service and shows you the results of members with photos in different dating services.
Answer “I am a…” (which automatically adds adjectives and nouns to your query – don’t like them, keep clicking the male/female button until words come up that you feel describe yourself) , then select the sex of the person you want, again, keep clicking the button until words come up that describe them, enter the age range you’d like the person to be in and your zip code (sorry, rubixx is only for the USA) and watch the results scroll by.
Click on the woman or man that you’d like to meet out of the results and you’ll be taken to the dating service the person belongs to. No word on accuracy and you then do have to join the dating service to find the person.
Seems like a nice, but unusable idea. But it slightly addictive, so give it a try.
