Starting with online dating
services can be a daunting task. There are so many choices ... then, there are
so many questions to answer so you can make a good first impression. Here are
our tips to answering those questions and making your online personal ad stand
out from the crowd!
Dating personal profile questions
Meeting people through online services can be fun and rewarding. Familiarizing
yourself with what will be asked of you will make the effort stress-free. Here
is what to expect and how to answer, those membership questionnaires:
Expect to complete the following:
• Create fictional nickname or member name so that other members have a handle
to contact you by
• Password - to log in to your personal profile or personal ad account
• Email address - usually not disclosed to other members but used by the
online dating service to contact you. Be sure you understand what happens to
your email address by the service you join, before you join since privacy rules
vary by service
• Age - within an age range or your actual age depending on the question
• Birth day and month - usually for the age range matching capability of the
dating service
• Gender - male or female
• Sexual orientation - straight, homosexual, bisexual
• Marital status - single, divorced, married, widowed
• Location - as general as your state/province and country or
as specific as city and county as well as postal/zip code. Some
questionnaires even ask for your telephone area code
• Picture - usually optional with your personal ad, you should always have
a picture of yourself in your computer ready to be submitted/uploaded with your
profile ad. You will be told that profiles with pictures receive 8 times more
people reading and contacting you that if your profile did not have a picture.
We can tell you that this is true and it may even be a lowball estimate! As
well, professional pictures stand out better than dark, faraway images. Think
magazine cover to increase the responses to your personal ad.
You will also describe yourself so someone will not only be able to
decide if they are interested in contacting you (whether online or in person)
but if they find you as a compatible match through additional questions that you
answer from your dating service profile. This could be a series of essay
questions, a series of ‘likes and dislikes’ form answers or a combination of
both.
There is also often a place for you to describe the type of person that you feel
would be a suitable match for yourself as well. This could also be an essay type
question or a series of ‘likes and dislikes’ questions that will complete your
profile and help other members to decide if they want to contact you or not.
But what if all does not go as you expected, you ask.
• What if you are being harassed by another member? – Save the messages you feel
are harassing and contact the customer service of the dating service
immediately. Provide details about the member that is harassing you to the
customer service representative and if you feel that you can no longer safely
use the service, as for a refund on your membership fees
• What if you can’t get your membership cancelled and your credit card keeps
getting charged for a membership you no longer want? – Write the billing
department or the customer service department of the dating service. If they
fail to respond within a reasonable amount of time (we call 3 business days
reasonable, you may feel a shorter or longer waiting time is reasonable) contact
your credit card company and have the credit card charges reversed and ask that
no further charges be authorized to your card
• What if you have a complaint against the service and they won’t help you
correct things? - Contact the staff at lovelinksplus.com. We are available to
mediate any valid complaint against most online dating services. If a dating
service has been reviewed and recommended by lovelinksplus.com staff, we will
most certainly get involved on your behalf to help work out a solution. If the
dating service is not recommended by lovelinksplus.com staff, we will try to
help as best we can. Be sure to email us all details of your complaint, the
steps you have taken in bringing your complaint to their attention and the
reason why the dating service has acted against what you feel is your best
interest as a customer of theirs.
Now you know what the usual basics of any dating service profile questions are
going to be asked of you when you decide to visit and join online dating
services. Of course the essay questions and form answers will vary by the
service you join. Although there can be similar features in most online dating
services, it is the profile and personal ad questions, as well as the individual
features, services and members, that make each dating service unique. A great
place to discover the differences between reputable online dating services is
lovelinksplus.com. Every service has been visited and reviewed according to a
strict set of rules and they are followed up on monthly to be certain that the
services listed maintain their quality of service and features.
