The Naked Truth | Online dating tips: how to avoid heartbreak and find true love against all the odds
- Fed up with picking the wrong dates? Be yourself, take a sensible approach and show patience if you want to get the right results
- When it gets awkward, be as frank as possible – there is nothing to fear
Online dating can be both fun and frustrating. You can be thrilled about meeting your date in person for the first time and decide to throw caution to the wind; equally, the person sitting across from you may not be what you expected.
In some extreme cases, it is a different person altogether.
Being truthful about your identity is a matter of basic decency, because you cannot pretend to be someone you are not – at least not for a sustained period – especially if you are looking for a long-term relationship.
According to a survey of more than 1,300 single people in Asia, including Hong Kong, conducted by Lunch Actually, a regional dating service, there is a gap between how singles behave in online dating and how they expect fellow singles to behave.
Only 18 per cent of singles – men and women – spend time creating a comprehensive personal profile on dating apps. However, 60 per cent of them have admitted to reading other people’s profiles in detail before deciding whether they are interested in them.
