Top 10 Online Dating Tips

The essential photograph

Online dating without a profile photograph is like buying a car from eBay without seeing a picture – pointless. You've got more chance of changing a traffic warden's mind before they give you a ticket than you have of piquing a potential date's interest without a decent photo. Therefore ask a friend or relative to help you out. Maybe you’re shy or worried people you know might find you (workmates, perhaps). If it’s the former, buck up. You’ve made a brave step by joining, but you’ve got to complete that step to make it worthwhile. If it’s the latter, then take pride, and make your profile the best profile anyone ever clapped eyes on.

Age of your photo
Your main photo should be no more than four years old. If you look preposterously more attractive in it than you do in real life, that's fair enough, if it really is a recent photo of you. However, to prevent a date's crushing disappointment followed by bitter resentment, you should include some more realistic shots in your extra photos.
Best strawberry on top
Write your profile. Read it through. Take the best bit and make it the first sentence, then re-write. Online profiles are like articles in a flicked though newspaper: if they don’t grab you immediately, you don’t read them.
Choose wisely
Pick a friend and get them to write a few sentences. Rather than picking the person who knows you best, pick a good writer or a witty friend (because this is an advert, not a confessional).
The truth will out
“I look 29, so it’s OK to say that I am.” claimed one 35 year-old. “I live in Birmingham, but I’ve said London because I go there often” said another girl. Women’s lies tend to be subtler and more easily rationalised than men’s blundering fibs about height etc., but that does not make them better. Just be truthful, white lies always come out in the end.
Activities
It's unacceptable to claim that you are still involved in activities that you haven't indulged in for years. “Keen gymnast”, for example, when you haven't vaulted a horse since your early teens, is not on. However, if you're just in a lull - perhaps you like swimming in the sea, haven't done it for three years, but are keen and able to do it again - then that's fine to include.

Once you have uploaded all your relevant pictures and information...
Your matches
Click ‘my matches’ on your home page, and you will see people who best fit your specified criteria (‘my ideal match’ in your profile), and the people that you fit best. The more specific you’ve been, the more specific the results.

How to deal with responses, or lack of them...
Some people get loads of mail and simply don’t have time to respond to every one. Some have abandoned the site but left their profiles on. Some just don’t feel compatible with you, even if they did initially... Basically, it’s complicated, but often people just don’t reply. You mustn’t let it put you off.
Take time
Taking time to get to know somebody with emails and a phone call before meeting is the key to online dating. Possibly patronising to include this, but, if you want to be certain about a person's intentions, hold back for a few dates. If they’re still around, chances are that it’s you, and not just the act, that they’re after.
When you finally do find that special someone and agree to meet up...
Meet somewhere interesting
Arrange to meet somewhere like a book shop, local monument or on a village green. The person who arrives first will have something to look at and do while waiting, and something to talk about immediately.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/relationships/online-dating/6672135/Top-ten-online-dating-tips.html

When is the Right Time?

This is a short essay I bumped into which I wrote long ago before this blog was started.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. True? Some people, well, who engage in long-distance relationships, may agree. Some people, howecer, who engage in short-term "relationships", may not. People would normally build intimate relationships when they're constantly seeing each other. For example, two students who go to the same school, or two colleagues who work in the same office, will most likely look at each other intimately. But that is if they like each other, we're talking about engaging in a relationship here, not initiating one, so let us assume both parties like each other. Anyway, going back to the subject, when is the right time to engage in a relationship? For me, everything is worth challenging. Challenges help us improve, too. So why not challenge a relationship? My implication is to start engaging in a relationship just before or when challenges are present - forget about the what age. How is this possible? Well, let me cite an example. Two lovers, high school students in the same class, are about to graduate and pursue their dreams in two different roads. If they loved each other, the challenge of having to part from each other would be present. And if they really loved each other, then their challenge would be easily solved. They would continue to see each other to communicate despite the distance between them. As they go through that particular challenge, their relationship matures with them. Though third example is just one of the many possible challenges present in a relationship, all the others have only one purpose, too - to define real love. In short, one must not always engage in a relationship when things are comfortable.

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Well, somehow I can't find my finished version of this essay. It seems I accidentally deleted it when I decided to clean my files. Anyway, even if most people rely on technology as a means of communication now and distance seem anything but a hindrance to us, we must still learn to control and limit our actions in the virtual world. Sometimes, we should learn to take it old school, don't you think? Like using the phone, mailing letters, etc. People may actually find those sweeter than just chatting in front of a computer.

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While of you are busy lurking around the internet searching for a potential partner in life or whatnot, I suggest you check these guys' blogs as they, too, can be very helpful when it comes to dating whether in real or virtual world. I personally know these guys and trust me, I owe them half of my current "gifts".

http://reignoftheg-man.blogspot.com/ - The G-man! Ladies, here you can see tips on how men can be easily please in the simplest of things.

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Valentine's Day: TAKE IT FOR REALZ

    ..and everything went smoothly as planned! I'm pretty sure each and everyone of you, at the very least, made some effort on making your partner/crush feel special even for just this day. And if you did it in real life instead of doing it in the internet or whatever medium for communication rather than personal interaction, BETTER. Well, unless you and your partner are world's apart that it would take you days to get to her, I don't really see any reason why you shouldn't see him/her even for just Valentine's Day. Don't get me wrong though, some may take Valentine's day as an excuse to see his/her partner.. Valentine's Day, for me, is merely like any other day, except that sales on flower shops tend to rise up during this day.. and everyone, who are allegedly "inspired" by a special someone, seem so hyped and tensed just because this day is so called the "Lover's Day". So remember, just like Valentine's Day, we ought to make our partners, if any, feel special and loved. By the way, being forever alone doesn't necessarily mean one doesn't need to take action during Valentine's Day. Everyone has a friend for a reason.
   
 

Starting a Conversation: Holidays

Adam Sandler once mentioned in his 1999 film, Big Daddy, "Initiating the conversation is half the battle." A smooth conversation start is definitely the way to go.
Recently, one of my friends(if you're reading this, sup? I just used you as an example) was struggling on how to start chatting with this girl he just met from approximately the other side of the world. He really wanted to get to know more about her but unfortunately, the timing just always felt wrong. Coincidentally, those days were during the holiday season. I successfully persuaded him to just at least send her a happy new year or a happy holiday greeting. He did! And guess what, before he even realized it, their conversation went on that it would take ample time to read of all them!
So everyone, use the advantage of holidays! Greeting someone won't hurt. Just remember, there exist some holidays you would like to consider thinking twice before actually using them e.g. Valentine's Day, All Saints' Day 
Hey, everything's merely experience, so don't start hating when things ain't working!

Greetings, everyone!

Dear reader,
At long last, I've finally descended from the everlasting sky along with a mission to impart my unending knowledge on something that I would like to call, e-fatuation.
But seriously, if you're reading this, hello! From this day onwards, I decided to start blogging all about building(or even breaking) relationships, especially young and fresh ones, online. Of course, all my references would be derived from actual people, particularly me, my friends, and all the other desperate ones I may find on my way. I definitely can NOT guarantee full proof information regarding this topic so please, do not ever.. ever.. EVER, come to me whining on why things did not go your way.
Again, everything that will be posted here is merely based on personal experience. So, to all of you, don't start hating when things ain't working!
                                                                                                                                   Yours, Jangelo

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