When it comes to online dating, you can put as much time as you like into your profile. You can post great quotes and talk about how much money you make at your amazing job. You can describe yourself as an adventurer, an Italian Stallion, a great cook, or a truly nice person just looking for love.
You might get allotted 1,000 words for your “About Me” section — but considering that’s how much a picture is worth, you might want to put your effort into choosing the best one. …

“I’m quitting this site. Nobody ever writes back.” In online dating, it’s the battle cry of the weary. “Why bother? There’s no one here for me.”
In most cases, this complaint seems to be leveraged against women. It makes sense: women outnumber men on most online dating sites, and women are both messaged more frequently and less likely to respond.
If you find that you’re getting ignored by women, your most powerful tool is understanding why. There are a million different situations that might cause a girl to ignore your e-mail, …

Writing an online dating profile is really, really difficult. It seems like it would be easy, doesn’t it? Fill in the checkboxes, tell them how tall you are, answer a few straightforward questions about yourself. But people really seem to struggle with putting their best foot forward online, and when you think about it, it’s easy to see why. Online dating is one of the most paradoxical spaces in information society. You have to present yourself as more appealing than a field of competitors in order to get anyone to …

As an online dating veteran — I first tried online dating over a decade ago — I’m frequently asked by newbies for advice. One thing that I try to remind everyone is that online dating is just a way to meet people. It shouldn’t replace actual, flesh and blood relationships — unless you’re just looking for an online friend.
A lot of people make the mistake of spending weeks or even months online getting to know a person they’ve met on a site. They’ll email and IM and eventually …

So you bumped into that stunning woman or rugged guy again on the subway — your brain simply short-circuits whenever you feel that instant spark of chemical attraction — and stepping off the blue line come your stop, all you can do is pull your hair out in frustration and text your friend for sympathy … yet another missed connection. Worse yet is if you constantly see the one over whom you’ve been pining — perhaps in class or at the library — but because of some blind, fuzzy, butterfly …

It happens all the time. Women who are new to online dating complain, in outrage, about some guy who turned out to be an inch or two shorter — or a few pounds heavier — than he claimed in his profile. Well, I’m here to tell you ladies to get used to it. It’s my experience that the majority of men lie in their profiles. (Maybe a majority of women, too? I don’t have any experience dating women, so I wouldn’t know.) After almost a decade of online …

Nowadays, a business has to have an online presence on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks in order to stay relevant to younger consumers. On YourTango, blogger Jed Mellick states that you may have to “become fluent and open to all new technologies” if you’re still in the dating game — if a guy you like tweets and you don’t, you may be missing opportunities to connect.
Do you maintain identities at all the major sites — even if you don’t like some of them — just so that you …

Online dating has been going on for quite some time, but the stigma surrounding it still persists. If finding Mr. Right is taking longer than you’d like, it might be time to get over your resistance and turn your computer into a love machine. It’s not as scary as you might think.
Many people think online dating is for the freaks and geeks who can’t find love in real life. Not so! It’s also for the people who don’t have time to meet a lot of new people, whose line of …