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The Worst Things To Put In Your Online Dating Profile, According To Reddit

The Worst Things To Put In Your Online Dating Profile, According To Reddit
Online dating presents a slew of additional challenges to dating, one being the question of how to write your profile. There are no guaranteed good answers, but here are things Redditors agree you should not include.
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Dating is hard. Online dating is… well, easier in some ways, but way harder in others. Specifically, the challenge of presenting yourself accurately and well within the confines of a profile is tough to master.

Some people don’t realize how offputting certain things can seem when it’s the only information you offer about yourself. Some people do realize it, and don’t seem to care. Whatever the case, here are things that Reddit agrees are anywhere from annoying to very, very bad to put in your online dating profile.



Starting out with all the qualities you hate or listing requirements

Related to the above: dunking on online dating or the app in question

‘Language’ experts

‘Entertain me’

‘If you can’t handle me at my worst…’

People looking for their fictional character counterpart

Demanding that someone have their shit together

Conversational requirements

No drama

Self-describing as an ‘Alpha male’

References to ‘nice guys’

Height requirements

People embarrassed to have a profile at all

Making the reader do homework

Misinformation?

Signaling that you’re not over your last relationship

People on a dating app not trying to date

On the flip side: here’s one surprisingly helpful, if alarming, thing to include


Via Reddit.

Comments

  1. claire gallo 1 year ago

    I hate, im an open book, just ask. You know you best. Tell me of you!!!!

  2. kevin hickey 1 year ago

    I saw this profile once from a guy in his late 40s
    "Prefer younger men, Age is only a number, You 20-40, slim, smooth, please"

    So if age is only a number, why are you being so specific?!?

  3. Eddie Hernandez 1 year ago

    Just ask? Listing wrong age?


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