ONLINE DATING: GET A REPLY FROM YOUR POF DREAM GIRL

Emily Croushore

May 24, 2013

[dropcap type="circle" color="#COLOR_CODE" background="#FF0040"]S[/dropcap]o, I’m not going to lie, being thirty-something and single isn’t the greatest situation to find yourself in.  And the guys I meet at bars aren’t necessarily the greatest, so I decided to give online dating a shot.  But, While there are plenty of dating sites out there, like Eharmony, Match.com, singles.net, I didn’t want to make myself look too desperate and actually pay for a membership, so I decided to go with the ever-so-popular Plenty of Fish.com (what, what).



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Plentyoffish.com is an online dating site that is completely free to join and free to use.  The popularity of the site has grown so much in recent years, that it has become the #1 online dating website in the US, boasting a record 55 million members, 24 million messages sent per day, 50,000 new signups per day, and 10 billion page views every month!!

While online dating gives you the opportunity to meet new and interesting people, POF, and sites like it, can be pretty cut throat.  Like other females on the site, I am regularly confronted with 100s of emails in my inbox which makes using the site at times overwhelming or too time consuming.  Decisions about which messages go straight to the trash without being read are immediately made, just to get a handle on one’s inbox.

With that many members in competition though, how do guys increase their chances of hearing back from that special girl who peaked their interest?  Here are some tips:[space height="HEIGHT"]
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• Upload at least 6 good photos of yourself to your profile.  Include up close shots of your face as well as photos that show your whole body.

 

• Make sure the pictures you include are clear.  Do not include photos that are fuzzy, blurry, highly pix-elated, or of overall poor quality.

 

• For God’s sake KEEP YOUR SHIRT ON!!!  No matter how awesome you think this one particular pic shows off your washboard abs or  perfect pecks, avoid all temptations to post it to your POF profile!!!  When I see messages from guys who have their shirt off in their profile pic, no matter how sexy or hot—I WILL AUTOMATICALLY DELETE THE MESSAGE  WITHOUT READING THEM!!  Period.  Sorry.

 

• I highly suggest that guys don’t wear sleeveless shirts for their main profile pic.  Your main profile pic should be a simple, straight forward, conservative shot of yourself from the shoulders up.  Think school picture.

 

• Use recent photos!!!  Come on.  This goes without saying.  Remember fellas, there IS a possibility that you actually MIGHT meet this girl one day.  Hence, SHE’S GOING TO SEE WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE EVENTUALLY.  Wouldn't you rather know that the girl you’re about to meet is attracted to the way you ACTUALLY look, rather than have her show up and be disappointed that you look nothing like your profile photos?  It’s EXTREMELY hard to come back from this guys.  When a girl shows up and sees you don’t look like she thought you did, nothing you say for the remainder of the date is going to matter.  She’s already cut you, she’s just trying to be polite by not leaving.

 

The initial cut is based off two things alone: the guy’s profile pic, and to a lesser extent, what the subject of the message is.  If you have a good profile pic (one that meets the following criteria) don’t jack things up by writing something stupid as the subject line.  *Here’s a tip guys: for the subject, just write RE:  This will give the girl the impression that she’s already spoken to you.  Thus your email  to her has that much better of a chance to pass the first cut.  (Guys do this to me all the time, and it works)![space height="HEIGHT"]
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Happy Fishing!!!