Some tips that can help keep your sanity while online dating: - You’re not obligated to share anything you’re not comfortable with. One of the beauties in online dating is that the other person sitting across the computer screen can’t make you feel uncomfortable or bad if you decide not to answer their questions. You have all the right to ignore their question, refuse to answer, or tell them to STFU if you really feel like it.
- If someone interests you, go ahead and send them an email or message. The internet may offer a surplus of things for online daters, but one thing that isn’t provided is the ability to mind-read. Unfortunately, your crush won’t have any idea that you’re into them unless you go out of your way and let them know!
- The waiting game is pointless, to say the least, especially when you’re online dating. If you’d like to be mysterious and play hard to get, we suggest you do it when you begin dating in person. Online, when you play the waiting game - you don’t look like anything except someone who lags when responding back to a message. In online dating, there really shouldn’t be a “waiting game.” Essentially, the longer you wait to get back to a person, the more time they have to meet someone else – we wouldn’t want you to sabotage yourself even before you start – which is why you should always respond back in a timely manner.
- You’re able to be online as long as you’d like, so make sure to keep yourself entertained with people that you find worth it. You have the ability to block people that you’d rather not converse with – it’s a vital option online dating offers to its daters.
- Think of your profile picture as the “first impression.” Yes, you want to look nice and attractive but refrain from using photos that are 3 years old. Assuming that you begin an actual relationship with someone you meet online, you’ll most likely end up sending them newer photos of yourself; now when they see a completely different person than what’s pictured in your default- you’ll have some explaining to do.
Above all else, remember that online dating can be turned off as quickly as pushing a POWER button.