Online Dating - Writing the Perfect Profile

Your profile is your key to attracting prospective partners on any internet dating site. Everything that your future date knows about you comes from that profile and the information they find there is what they use when deciding whether or not to contact you. This is why it is so important to get your profile right.

The first feature of a profile to catch the eye is usually the photograph. I have already covered this subject at some length in a previous article and so I will not go into great detail about the photograph here. I will just say 'Choose a picture that is recent, accurate, and presents yourself in a positive light.

After this most of your profile should be straightforward to complete. Name, Age, Location, etc. should not present too many problems, just remember to be truthful as you fill in these fields, object of completing this profile is to meet people and anything that you say in your profile that doesn't reflect the truth will soon be exposed when you meet in person.

The most difficult areas of your profile to write are usually the 'About me' and the 'Hobbies and Interests' sections. It is worth taking some time to consider what to write in these areas.

What image do you want to present? It is important to be truthful but everyone has different sides to their personality, and you need to decide how you want to appear. It's easy to write the first thing that comes into your head, but a better idea is to take a piece of paper and jot down your key personality traits and put them in order of their importance to you.

Once you have finished doing this for the 'About Me' then repeat it for the 'Hobbies and Interests' fields. Once you have written out your lists you should have a much clearer idea of how to frame your profile.

One note of caution, there is no need to list every single hobby you have ever engaged in. An overload of information will just cause unneeded confusion, and may even stop someone from contacting you. Choose two or three of your major interests and list a little about each of them, this provides the opportunity for your date to ask questions about these things when they contact you for the first time.

If you are really stuck for ideas then it can be worth taking a look at some other profiles on the site, and see how other people are presenting themselves. Don't copy another profile, but there is nothing wrong with adapting it for your own use.

The most important thing about your profile is to be yourself, you will be much more successful if you present yourself to prospective partners than if you pretend to be someone that you are not.

Peter Townsend is the founder of http://www.SouthEastLondonDating.com He has been writing and publishing articles on a variety of subjects for the last ten years. He lives in south east London with his wife Mona, and spends his time re-publishing public domain works for http://www.TownsendPublications.com