So when you are thinking of a headline, stay away from the worn-out and boring and instead use something crisp and funny like ‘Feel free to interact with me. Have a powerful opening While in real world, it may be right to open introductions with polite words, it makes little sense to open a dating profile with a sentence like, ‘ Thanks for stopping by my profile’ or ‘This is the first time I’m doing something like this’.

If you are on a dating site, everything knows why you are here and what you are looking for – so don’t waste other people’s time by going around it in circles.

Focus on the less superficial stuff, not how tall or suave or sexy you want your prospect to be.

Even worse are lines that people use to describe their own supposed sense of humor like ‘being witty is second nature to me’ or that ‘I like making others laugh’.But when I started writing people’s online dating profiles for e-Cyrano.com, all that changed. By the end of our phone call, I’d pare down what they’d said into an enticing short story while marketing their date-ability in the process.I’d make sure that every sentence focused on what the reader—your future boyfriend or girlfriend—could expect when dating you.By Judith Silverstein, Michael Lasky In addition to displaying a screen name, many online-dating sites allow you to display a phrase, called a tagline.Some sites, such as Match.com, let you choose a long screen name and a long tagline.