Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Seven Online Dating Mistakes in Profiles

I have tried online dating on three separate occasions. The first time I was terrified and the second time I was frustrated. The third time was better because I finally read-up on the topic, asked my friends what they were writing online, and experimented with my profile until I got the attention I wanted.
I have tried online dating on three separate occasions. The first time I was terrified and the second time I was frustrated. The third time was better because I finally read-up on the topic, asked my friends what they were writing online, and experimented with my profile until I got the attention I wanted.

As a favor to yourself, don't make the same mistakes as me.

Mistake Number One: The Competition Ignored Three-fourths of the women in my zip code have a picture of themselves at a baseball game. If I hadn't gone weeks without looking at other women's profiles, it would've occurred to me sooner that I should one-up my competition and post a picture of myself playing the game. It's important to compare yourself to the competition.

Mistake Number Two: Never Changing Your Photo The first two times I was on Match I used the same photo. The third time I signed-up I searched men under 35 and found a guy I had seen on the first-go-round. Although I really liked him, I quickly changed my mind about writing him because his profile was exactly the same. I picked a new photo for myself and changed my profile a little every couple of weeks. I did this so guys who may have passed by me once, wouldn't pass by me again.

Mistake Number Three: The Wrong Photo Uploaded It's odd to have pictures of your ex or a friend of the opposite sex hanging or hugging on you. Since it's safe to assume we've all been in relationships and have flirty friends, avoid pictures where its obvious someone has been cut out or where someone is a little too friendly.

Nice try, but pictures of you with babies or puppies is cheap.

And then, of course, are the photos of you in your bathing suit. It's great that you're hot and want to tell someone, but keep it classy.

Mistake Number Four: Novel Writing To let him or her know you're interested it's ok to write a novel in your second, third or fourth e-mail, but the written portions of your e-mail should never be too long. The 580 words describing your ideal date is too much for our attention spans.

Mistake Number Five: Played a Broken Record Make yourself sound unique by focusing on your distinctive attributes like, for instance, the fact that your eyes change from hazel to green depending on your outfit. Avoid clich phrases like "I'm laid back" or "My friends say I'm..." Making yourself stand out may be the most important aspect of an online profile.

Mistake Number Six: Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve No one cares that you just broke up, or that you've been hurt before. Let me take that back, everyone looking at your profile cares, but not in a good way. Don't say things like, "I just got out of a relationship and am just looking to have fun" or "I've had bad luck finding a good man, and now I'm here to find Mr. Right." It's ok that you're heart-broken; just keep it to yourself or you risk scaring a lot of great suitors away.

Mistake Number Seven: Forgetting to Get a Second Opinion It's hard to write about yourself, let's be honest. Asking a friend to write or review your profile is one of the best things you can do. If that's not an option, for a small fee there are many services that will help you put together the written portions of your profile.

Online dating shouldn't be hard and isn't scary. Like all types of dating, with the right expectations and attitude-the outcome will only be positive.

Mistake Number One: The Competition Ignored Three-fourths of the women in my zip code have a picture of themselves at a baseball game. If I hadn't gone weeks without looking at other women's profiles, it would've occurred to me sooner that I should one-up my competition and post a picture of myself playing the game. It's important to compare yourself to the competition.

Mistake Number Two: Never Changing Your Photo The first two times I was on Match I used the same photo. The third time I signed-up I searched men under 35 and found a guy I had seen on the first-go-round. Although I really liked him, I quickly changed my mind about writing him because his profile was exactly the same. I picked a new photo for myself and changed my profile a little every couple of weeks. I did this so guys who may have passed by me once, wouldn't pass by me again.

Mistake Number Three: The Wrong Photo Uploaded It's odd to have pictures of your ex or a friend of the opposite sex hanging or hugging on you. Since it's safe to assume we've all been in relationships and have flirty friends, avoid pictures where its obvious someone has been cut out or where someone is a little too friendly.

Nice try, but pictures of you with babies or puppies is cheap.

And then, of course, are the photos of you in your bathing suit. It's great that you're hot and want to tell someone, but keep it classy.

Mistake Number Four: Novel Writing To let him or her know you're interested it's ok to write a novel in your second, third or fourth e-mail, but the written portions of your e-mail should never be too long. The 580 words describing your ideal date is too much for our attention spans.

Mistake Number Five: Played a Broken Record Make yourself sound unique by focusing on your distinctive attributes like, for instance, the fact that your eyes change from hazel to green depending on your outfit. Avoid clich phrases like "I'm laid back" or "My friends say I'm..." Making yourself stand out may be the most important aspect of an online profile.

Mistake Number Six: Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve No one cares that you just broke up, or that you've been hurt before. Let me take that back, everyone looking at your profile cares, but not in a good way. Don't say things like, "I just got out of a relationship and am just looking to have fun" or "I've had bad luck finding a good man, and now I'm here to find Mr. Right." It's ok that you're heart-broken; just keep it to yourself or you risk scaring a lot of great suitors away.

Mistake Number Seven: Forgetting to Get a Second Opinion It's hard to write about yourself, let's be honest. Asking a friend to write or review your profile is one of the best things you can do. If that's not an option, for a small fee there are many services that will help you put together the written portions of your profile.

Online dating shouldn't be hard and isn't scary. Like all types of dating, with the right expectations and attitude-the outcome will only be positive.


http://www.articlefair.com/Article/Seven-Online-Dating-Mistakes-in-Profiles/27853

Russian or American Women – who are better?

SO.......

How do women treat themselves:

Russian woman knows that she is a woman and she likes it... deep inside she feels like a tender, weak and beautiful being created to have a family and children. American woman knows that she is a personality and she has the same rights as any man to show her worth. So she doesn't differ from him much in her inner world :).

Women's appearance:

Russian woman are slim enough in most cases. American ones... - we don't have the data. Russian women use make up, pay much attention to their hair-does, dye hair and use nail varnish. American women seldom use make up to intensify their brightness. It is considered to be a bad taste as "only prostitutes use bright make up and luxuriant hair-does".

Clothes:

Russian woman do their best to be beautiful. They dress sexually enough. They prefer slinky clothes, gauzy ones, and any other that would accentuate and show :) all values of their figure: bust, slim legs, hips... To loose her sexuality for a Russian woman means to loose her feminity namely high self-esteem. BUT this sexuality is not the one which aims at making sex only. It is the urge to be desired, that is to say a woman any man seeks after and wants to gain.

American women dress up in rather baggy clothes. They put on clothes that hide all particular qualities of the figure, breast, legs. There is a wide-spread opinion in Russia that American women are always dressed in wide jeans, sneakers, football jersey, and T-shirt on it. And there is a personality under it all. This way being of dressed is an absolute lack of taste from a Russian woman's viewpoint. This is concerned with the fact that slinky dresses, short skirts and gauzy mantelets in America only movie stars and women who make hints about sex to men wear (but only at home).

Creating a family, children:

For American women family has to consist of two parents for a child that of course affects his development positively :). But men sometimes hinder them in this pedagogical process.

Russian woman are for a family. They are wifes... and a child for them is a happiness they may give to themselves and to the beloved husband. The aim of a family is to live for a long time and to die on one day together with the husband surrouded by children, grandchilren and great-grandchilren. A family is precious by itself. Married woman has a higher status in society. To save the family they would endure matirial problems their husbands may have. The scale of priority for a Russian lady is the following: first she is a wife, then a mother, and after it she thinks about professionalism and career.

Sex:

Sex is good , especially when everybody is happy. This subject was closed for discussion for a long time in Russia. And now...sex is a fun, it tones up and confuses. At last we have understood the meaning of flirting!
Concerning jokes...

In Ukraine they say: "Every satisfied Ukrainian woman is a step to satisfied Ukraine". And one more: "There is a portion of a joke in every joke"... So, the conclusion is the following: sexual satisfaction in the FSU is an emotional and important subject. And women are made responsible for their satisfaction (this responsibility is almost of a national standart). Sexual satisfaction and family happiness are two values standing close to each other. That is why there are only 80 divorces among 100 marriages:).
American women's attitude to sex is more simple...They may discuss quite easily there oral sex experience in front of the camera on some TV channel. Sex is what is allowed, needed and useful. But it is not necessarily connected with marriage. Men and women are equal in their "sexual rights". And that is why women are more demanding. The destiny of America doesn't depend on American woman's satisfaction and that means that you can make experiments. It seems the Americans have reached great results with these experiments. That is the reason why they don't hasten with marriage and having children who are resulted from the usual trite sex. That is why there are 100 contracted marriages among 300 non contracted in America:).

Women's expectations from men, their fears and anxieties:

Russian women want to meet a well-provided, handsome man with whom they can feel like "behind the stone wall" ,have no fears and feel secure and safe. The DREAM is a sincere and devoted husband who will be beside in spite of everything and who will take them as they are with all their hysterics... BUT quite often women marry those who love them very much and who is persistent in his love forgetting about material well-being, reliability etc. Russian women are tolerant to men and they are ready to do a lot for the sake of their beloved man (for instance to go to Siberia to her husband a revolutionary)...and this is the reason for them to suffer. They love to suffer in general. Big sad eyes make Russian women more beautiful. And what man can resist the temptation to comfort beautiful Russian woman!?:)

Russian women are scared that their men might leave them, part with because of mistress, or start drinking hard. They are scared to take initiative to start relationship with a man. That is why they make manicure, dress sexily and sit in front of the open window waiting for a prince on a golden horse who will see her, fall head over heels in love with them, pursue and win her with his love. Ones who finally ended meeting anyone at all, marry him. And those who have a bigger potential of hope place their picture of "herself beautiful by the window" and wait there for American and European princes to come...

Women from America want a man do not disturb them while they are busy with this important work of creating a family. They are more exacting to relations in a marriage. They are the head in a family as the law is on their side. That is why American (and European) men don't dare to create a family. They need to get firmly established to be able to defend their possession in the case of divorce. The bride from America is a big and expensive gift for a man who having received it has to realize how lucky he is :).
American women fear that their love would not be appreciated enough by a man who would act the way she understood that she was not the person he could take seriously. In fact they are quite sensitive to the problems with the relationship, but in emergency situations prefer to act aggressively rather than suffer as "powerless Russian beauties".

Gender equality
is a funny subject!!!

There is a point of view in Russia that the chase for the equalization of man and woman have reached the absolute marasmus and leads to the fact that both are becoming not interesting not only as a persons but also as a carrier of its own gender.

Women fade away as men are scared to show consideration to them. Men pine and suffer indigestion as they more and more often have to restrain their man's desires. For gender equality to crow over forever you just need to teach men how to become pregnant or to deprive women of it. Though the first thing is better as everybody fears demographical decrease. It is a bit unfair even from the point of view of simple financial expenses: men all around the world spend more money on beer than women... let them also buy tampons... then we'll see how much they will have for beer! It looks like in Russia the attempt to make women and men equal ended with the result that women understood at last that it is good to be women: beautiful, sexy, loving and with family. But men having seen so many beautiful women got lost and fall into inferiority complex. And while they are being frozen our best and most beautiful ladies go away to those men who appreciate them and who miss normal, healthy relationship between man and woman. That means they go to Americans and Europeans.

http://www.articlefair.com/Article/Russian-or-American-Women---who-are-better-/27770

Unlock The Magic Of London With An Escort

Few cities can rival London for its range of attraction - the theatres, night-clubs, museums and parks. London can also be a vast and lonely place if you're alone. It would be so much easier and more fulfilling if you had someone to show you around and share your experience. If you find yourself alone whether on business or pleasure, many escort agencies can arrange a companion for you. Such an arrangement offers many benefits

If you're visiting London on business you may well need a companion for a social event. In this case an escort is the perfect choice. If you deal with a reputable agency, you can be sure your companion will not only be head-turning attractive but also have the social graces and conversational skills you need to impress your peers and business partners.

A big city like London can seem cold and not welcoming if you're alone. As you're just in town for a short time, you don't really have time to make new friends. Also, you don't want to waste time and energy hovering around night-spots in the hope of meeting someone you feel good with. This is where an escort agency shines. With the best agencies, you can choose your companion and let them arrange your liaison with ease. Your new friend will be with you within the hour. With a reputable escort agency, you're guaranteed satisfaction along with complete security and safety. To meet a specific lady with out the agency’s recommendation it is advisable to call well in advance. Most agencies can take online enquiries but to make a booking one will need to call reception for Credit Card verification and also confirmation.

Finally a talented escort can unlock the city and help you experience it in a way you never could alone. Your escort can be your cicerone through the attractions of this great European metropolis, showing you what you'd never see alone and probably saving you money in the process. A first class escort is never cheap but the richness of the experience offers incomparable value.

Here a are few pointers on using a reputable London escort agency. Firstly, you will not have the option to speak to your escort before meeting her. Also reputable agencies will not allow more than one client per escort. So if you've got a friend along, you'll have to arrange another escort for him.

Generally escort agencies offer a variety of options. There's the Out-call service in which your selected escort visits you at your home or hotel. However some escorts are not comfortable with this arrangement so you'd better check with your agency. With this option if you wish to specify the dress code to your escort, make sure you give plenty of notice. And don't forget the vagaries of the weather. The British outdoors is very unpredictable. Another option is called the In-call service. With this option you visit the escort at her apartment in central London.

So if you're visiting London alone, look into getting an escort for all or part of your stay. There are many agencies so you can afford to be selective. Apply the following criteria: Does the agency have a website with genuine and recent photographs of the escorts? Does the website contain positive feedback in the form of testimonials? Does it offer a broad range of escorts of different nationalities? And finally, is it well established - look for a firm that's been in business for at least ten years.

http://www.articlefair.com/Article/Unlock-The-Magic-Of-London-With-An-Escort/27312

Using Free Dating Services Online

Online dating services are becoming increasingly popular among those that are looking to find friends, and maybe even more if the time is right and they meet the right person. Many people find the thought of being set up on blind dates, and the pressure of dating somewhat forced and unnatural. With online dating, much of the uncomfortable elements are removed. Not only do you get a chance to speak with your date first, you also get to see if it is likely you will make a connection – this removes any need for spending an evening together when you can tell you are not going to get on within the first 15 minutes.

Online dating services are also great because of the added security and anonymity that they offer. In the online world you will need to exchange telephone numbers, tell your date where you work and live, and loads of other personal details from the outset. With free dating services online, much of the need for specifics is removed, rendering it possible to share the information that you would like to and leaving out the information that would it make it possible for the wrong person to be able to contact and harass you if they would like to.

Online dating allows you to look at a profile picture of any potential dates before you enter into conversation and things go further. Because everyone has their own personal preferences surrounding how they choose dates it is ideal to have this iteration online; letting someone down is not difficult when you are online because you never have to respond to their correspondence in the first place.

In the offline world many people are limited to who they can meet. Apart from friends of friends, and co-workers, meeting others can be very difficult – especially as you get older and your social groups become more limited as your friends get married and have more strenuous work commitments. With online dating you open up a whole world of opportunities to meet new people who are in exactly the same position as you are. Not only that, but the sheer volume of people at online dating sites means you are far more likely to meet a person who is an exact match to you and your personality.

Everyone dreams their whole life of meeting a person who is perfectly suited to them, and what better way to do it than through an online dating service? With such a myriad of opportunities, and the ability to make friends in the process, there really is no reason not to give it a try. You can also save money too! With free dating services available, you do not have to waste money on pointless dates, or spend money on your credit card just to meet people in the first place. Why not sign up to a free dating service online today and see if you can meet the person of your dreams?


http://www.articlefair.com/Article/Using-Free-Dating-Services-Online/27245

Trend of Making Friends and Romance with Online Dating

Online dating websites create the opportunity for people to meet potential partners and friends online. Although many people go out specifically looking to find romance, the general trend is that most people upload a profile to a social networking website and meet partners online in much the same way that you would offline. When you go out of your way to find a date, it is often much harder than leaving it to come along naturally when you meet someone who you click with. When you meet someone and immediately show an interest in them, it can be difficult to really get to know each other when there is a pressure that your relationship has to materialize into one of romance. When you take a more laid back approach, you can remain friends with some people, and consider dating those that you feel you have made a bond with.

Online social networking sites are also great to meet potential partners because of the relative anonymity that you can maintain from the outset. The same goes with meeting friends as well; you can talk to them without having to share your telephone number, address and other personal information which is obviously necessary for a relationship offline. Therefore choosing not to email them back or even not to respond in the first place is perfectly acceptable etiquette and you will not have to worry about any consequences that could prevail.

On the other hand, when you do meet someone that you like, the anonymity offered by the internet is potentially less favorable – you have no way to verify they are who they say they are. That is why when you meet someone you met online for the first time, it is best to suggest a meeting in a busy place, and to consider suggesting that you both bring friends along with you. Not only will this be safer, it will also be less uncomfortable since you will both have people there that you know.

Many people who are nervous offline find meeting people online much easier, and that can be true of meeting friends as well. Despite that, you should keep in mind that should you wish for your online relationship to flourish offline you need to remain true to who you are, and the way that you are comfortable of acting and conducting yourself. Although you may be tempted to tell white lies in order to entice the person to like you more, it is very important that you stay true to yourself.

When you go on a dating site at first, you may have problems trying to find people to talk with at first since you have just started out. One great way to do this is to search the site to find people that you think you have the potential to bond with. If your offline friends participate as well, you could start talking with their friends, and friends of their friends, and so on. Over time you can be sure to meet great new people from all around the world.


http://www.articlefair.com/Article/Trend-of-Making-Friends-and-Romance-with-Online-Dating/27244

Internet Dating Scenario – How Things Work

Internet dating websites are becoming the new way to meet potential partners from the comfort of your own home. Each dating site online has case studies of thousands of people that have managed to pair up through visiting their website and browsing profiles, or being contacted by others that have viewed theirs. Although many people still meet partners through traditional means, there is no better way to find qualified dates than online. You can browse their profile and see if there interests match yours, look at their picture and see if you are attracted to them, and then enter into a conversation through email and instant messenger which is a relaxed way to talk to each other without any pressure to get along.

Although many people meet dates online in a variety of ways, the normal internet dating process usually involves much of the same stages. Firstly you will have to go to an internet dating website and sign-up in order to be able to browse their database of people that are suitable for you. After you sign-up the next stage is to fill out your own profile so that people can get a chance to look at you, and find out more about your personality! Many people might contact you regardless, but if you really want to get somewhere in a hurry it is best to try to contact potential partners yourself.

Most dating websites will have a database which you can sort by the person’s details, to ensure the site only returns profiles of people that you would like to get to know better. Let’s say you are looking for females around the same age as you, and that are heterosexual. You would go to the search function and enter the age bracket that interests you, select female for gender and heterosexual for sexuality. Then it is most likely you will be met with a large list of choices. From there you would go through and read their profiles and look at their pictures to see what interests you.

When you see someone who interests you, it is now time to act accordingly! You click to send them a private message and start a dialogue with them. At this point you can use your experience in dating and communicating with potential partners to allow you to decide what kind of dialogue is best. Although you may wish to tell them how much you like them, most people use this opportunity for mild flirting or to get to know the person a little better. From there, some people choose not to take things any further, while others will swap telephone numbers and arrange to meet each other. Although you may never find the love of your life in an internet dating website, you are certainly increasing your chances significantly, and opening up the chances of finding that special someone who is made for you. Whether you are lucky or not, you cannot be accused of not trying if you give it a go! .

http://www.articlefair.com/Article/Internet-Dating-Scenario---How-Things-Work/27243