Love @ First Click<\/a>, what you really need to know about online dating before you start snapping your profile picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\nYou\u2019re taking control<\/strong>. By creating an online dating profile, you\u2019re no longer leaving it up to chance to create your romantic future. \u201cOnline dating is the best way to be proactive about your dating life,\u201d says Davis. \u201cAfter all, meeting someone meaningful takes action <\/em>— and in a digital world, that means joining a dating site in addition to meeting people offline too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nYou will (and should) meet people<\/strong>. There\u2019s no sense in creating an online dating profile if you\u2019re wary of meeting people IRL. \u201cThe term online dating is all wrong — it should be online meeting <\/em>and offline <\/em>dating,\u201d says Davis. \u201cIt’s just a way for you to meet real people to connect with offline. If moving beyond the message with a match seems scary to you because you’re still only dipping your toe into your singledom, perhaps it’s not the right time for you to date online. That\u2019s the point of online dating!\u201d She recommends moving the conversation offline after six messages (three per person) is what works best.<\/p>\n\n\n\nYou\u2019ll date more efficiently. <\/strong>One of the perks of online dating is your ability to stipulate height, education, location and basically anything else you require in a partner. \u201cYou can be specific about who you want to meet, making sure you have common interests, values, etc.,\u201d says Davis. \u201cThis is what separates online dating from meeting someone at a bar – you lead with this information and so do others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nYou\u2019ll be active by taking it slow. <\/strong>If you\u2019ve been out of the dating game for a while \u2013 or you\u2019re just plain excited to be trying something new — you might want to go buck wild by signing up for every dating site out there and going on as many dates as you can. Davis says, slow it down. \u201cIt’s best to begin online dating by joining one site. I’ve had a few clients who started with too many accounts on different platforms and it quickly became overwhelming!\u201d She also notes that online dating sites are communities, and in order to get something out of a community, \u201cyou need to be an active participant within it. On a dating site that means searching and sending messages to matches who seem interesting. I suggest to my clients that they send no less than 10 messages to new matches per week. When you focus on your outbox, your inbox will fill up … and so will your dating calendar!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nYou can take your time. <\/strong>Though a lot of singles have compared online dating to a second job, Davis says searching for love online shouldn\u2019t be exhausting. In fact, the more stressed you are about finding a match, the less likely you\u2019ll find a suitable one. She refers to psychological studies on the time spent online dating that showed the longer you spend scrolling through matches, the more judgmental you become. \u201cSo rather than sitting down on Sunday night for two hours and sending dozens upon dozens of messages at once, space it out throughout the week,\u201d says Davis. \u201cCommit to online dating for 20-30 minutes per day, and it will feel more manageable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thinking about online dating? Consider these points first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":12452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-online-dating"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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