Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Tips for Online Dating

Today’s online technology helps facilitate dating for seniors. It is the “on the internet” dating that is the new and improved way for “Baby Boomers” to meet potential companions. There may be advantages over conventional techniques, but it is difficult to say if they prevail over any disadvantages. The approval of internet dating has grown so quickly that there is very little written about it. This convenience may call for further exploration. The result could be finding a friend, a pen pal, or a partner for serious relationships without going anywhere. Once in the database people are matched up. This website- www.seniordating123.com/senior-dating-service.html, says “Some websites are totally free, some may be free of charge only for a specific period of time, and others need prepayment.”

Despite the fact that years ago, dating may have been regarded as a disadvantage in public places by the sole realm of the so called “nerdy and socially challenged”. Or the other extreme of a stereo typical bar scene where a night out may not find you with the best suitable partner. Dating “today” seems to have come a considerably long way from the days of no internet. According to online dating site Match.com, “more than 20,000 people register to use the site every day. This includes “The Baby Boomer Generation- people born from 1946 – 1964”. A different website called -eHarmony says “their dating site is responsible for 2 percent of all marriages in the United States”.

So, how are all of these people finding success in love online? As stated by experts on the website - http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag/sbsm0802/feature-online-love.html, honesty, patience and a well-thought-out profile are all anyone needs to find true love. In order to get started, a new user may think about doing a break down of their online profile into just four parts the website username, profile headline, picture and profile of themselves.

Website username

To set up a user name, it may take some creativity and ingenuity on your part. But it will be your identification on your website. You can be as unique or as standard as you want. For some ideas on user names this website - http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Username.com, may help. They say The Internet is commonly asking for more and more user names for individual websites. A username is commonly paired with a password, but the username is not private.”

Profile headline

Navigation on a singles website can be simple, practical and helpful. For ideas on how to create the best website profile headline that best suits you, visit this website- http://www.excessvoice.com/article42.htm.

Picture and Internet Profile

Bring together a group of friends to help you review your online profile, and go step-by-step. Your friends can even give your profile a critique and offer suggestions before you post (put your profile online). They may even help you select the best picture of yourself for your profile.

A profile is the unique, customizable area on an online dating site which may contain an area to include a biographical story or paragraph of information about you. It may consist of a questionnaire or the ability to enter an essay s to provide an all inclusive look into your personality to possibly facilitate better matchmaking.

According to the website- http://www.videojug.com/interview/children-and-internet-social-networking-2. An internet personal profile is the information that you put out there for everyone else to see about you. That could include photographs of yourself; it could include all kinds of information about where you go to school, what you like, and what you don't like. It's whatever you want other people to see about you.”

These tips may be a prescription for love, courtesy of online dating. Consider using a creative profile, browse through forums or chat with each other in an open environment without a hidden medical history. Today’s technology enables singles to do instant messaging, blog or send virtual gifts to each other. Online dating could be done by any combination of these ideas.

Internet dating for “Baby Boomers” might make it easier to find a suitable partner to spend their life with. The people featured on online dating websites are seniors who are single and interested in companionship, meeting as friends or looking for a partner in life.

By Cynthia

HP Volunteer


References:

http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag/sbsm0802/feature-online-love.html,

www.seniordating123.com/senior-dating-service.html

http://www.videojug.com/interview/children-and-internet-social-networking-2.

http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Username.com



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