Popular Online Dating Activities (Part I)

Heads up, gents. Online dating can open up new doors of opportunities with a little help from real world dating tips that work.

All types of everyday activities are growing in popularity online these days like sharing photos and greeting cards as well as recipes and can you believe bidding on auctions. In fact, all of these even go hand in hand with online dating opportunities, one of the most popular online activities for singles today.

Before actually meeting in person, many dates get acquainted online first. Here are some top-rated activities showing what many potential cyber-dates do.

Sharing Recipes – People get tired talking about the work or the weather. So a popular subject to turn to is food. Sharing favorite foods and recipes helps break the ice and even forms friendships over culinary skills – or lack of – and tastes. Search your favorite search engine for “free recipes” to share. Take photos of your culinary creations and share them with your date, too.

Bidding at Auctions – EBay auctions sell nearly anything and everything! So surf around and enter searches like the dates you were in middle school. Share cool memorabilia photos of old games and toys from when you were a child or when your parents or grandparents were little; The Dating Game, Oscar Mayer wiener whistles, The Partridge Family Album, Bobby Sherman’s Album, 45’s and more. 

Photos - As a wonderful keepsake of your budding romance, create an online photo album for your new cyber-mate.  Include digital photos of favorite outdoor scenes, pets, flowers, cars, silly moments, your computer corner or laptop, etc.  Then you’ll even have more to discuss during online dates via emails and chat rooms. Search for “photo albums” to find places that store your photos.

Greeting Cards- Regardless of where the person lives, you can mail a greeting card. If privacy and security is an issue, check into renting an inexpensive P.O. Box (check the Yellow Pages). You do not have to be an artist to make something homemade and special for the new friend in your life.  Even making a special, personalized greeting card would be appreciated and show your date that you care enough to take the time needed to make something by hand.  Search your favorite search engine for online greeting cards also to send, too. They range from free to low cost and can be sent in a click.

Tips for the Men: (Part II)

Looks Count

Comment on how attractive she is. Yes, women do want to know they are pretty, even if they’re online and you can’t see them and have no idea. So in your communications, ask questions that would help you know, but in an unobtrusive way like – how do you wear your hair? And then say how attractive that must look.

Kindness Counts

Point out nice things or the lemonade in life – nice things the other person has mentioned, nice acts the person has done, good things on the news latterly, etc. Be upbeat, and forget those lemons in life. Even in email a person can shout, by using all capital letters. So show manners and kindness. Keep swearing, unkind remarks, prejudice, etc. out of your communications. And “do unto others….”

 No Grandstanding Please

Unless Politics is seriously what attracted you both I would strongly suggest staying away from this one. Discussions on politics most often leave a bad taste in ones mouth due to feelings, emotional connection to topics or nationalism. It’s best to avoid this topic in the beginning stages until you both feel more comfortable and appreciative of one another’s opinion. [More Tips will be covered in our following articles in the series].

So add some helpful real-world tips that do work (a lot of the time anyway) into your online dating equations. No need to risk meeting in person until you get more familiar with each other online first. So take the online plunge! And come up on the positive side of romance – and enjoy more lemonade!

Next: A Man’s Secrets to Successful Online Dating

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