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In this blog post, I will share with you the 5 most common mistakes that people tend to do on online dating websites.
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You’re here to get some dating advice on the most common mistakes people do so without further ado, here it is…
The 5 Common Mistakes People Do And That Is Easy To Avoid
People keep doing the same mistakes again and again. This actually comes as no surprise to me. No matter if it’s filling in information about yourself or filling in a form on a paper or online we tend to miss important information because our brains seem to get too much information that they can’t process.
Unfortunately, we can’t add a 1TB hard drive or a 4TB hard drive to extend our memory which we can do with our computers.
The 5 most common mistakes people always do on any kind of dating sites (I have compared on other sites too and not just the dating profiles on xpdating.com this time):
1. Leaving everything in your dating profile blank except the basic information about yourself.
This is not a good strategy. People like to get some information about you so they can start up building an imaginative picture of how life with you could be. This is what you want people to do because that might be the one thing that makes them contact you instead of anybody else. If you read number 4 below you’ll get some valuable tips.
2. Giving away too much information about themselves.
NO! Don’t write an essay about your entire life either! You’re interesting, I get it but NOT THAT INTERESTING!
Come on, people, get a reality check! You’re not the king, queen, princess or president of a big and powerful nation! Even if you are, you should not disclose that information in a dating profile! Balancing the information about yourself is the best way to do it.
For this reason, I recommend the following: Write some intriguing facts in your profile, things that make you stand out from the rest of everybody else. Under number 4 below, you’ll find some tips on how to write some great lines.
3. No photo or video on the profile.
It might work for the guards of the Sistine Chapel to scream “No photo! No video!” when you’re there but not on a dating site. People LOVE PHOTOS AND VIDEOS EVEN MORE!
If the dating site offers the video you can actually write down less information about yourself and just write something like:
“Thanks for stopping by, stranger! If you would like to learn some interesting stuff about me, check out my video!”
4. Listing facts about yourself
This is a bit of both the first and second one. Listing information about yourself like:
“I am 25 years old, have brown eyes and occasionally like to do some traveling to exotic countries” isn’t good.
Give some more information, think about it like your writing a short story or a novel, not like you’re filling in a paper for a health insurance or just giving that basic information on a profile on the dating site you recently joined.
Try writing it like: “I am 25 years old and with my brown eyes I would like to go to foreign countries like India and China. I have already been in Italy, Spain, Germany and many other European countries and would love showing them to you and maybe we can discover new places together there or in other countries.” It’s better, right?
5. Over-exaggerating facts or polishing up yourself
It might be good for you over-exaggerating some basic facts about yourself like height, weight and age to a nice and round number but I would suggest that you stick as close to the truth as possible.
I don’t like to promote this kind of behaviour, although it’s very common on dating sites, according to my own research.
In some cultures (especially in some Asian cultures) your height can be an issue. I personally had one woman from a country in Asia who turned me down because I was honest about my height, which she thought were a bit too short for her (just to be honest: she is shorter than I am).
Next blog post
My next blog post will be published on the 28th October 2015.
It will be about the elusive third date.
See you then,
Rickard
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