Following up on the discussion and coverage I’m giving to dating on Facebook and looking for love online at the Social Networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Twitter, Hi5, and Eons. Each site has different features allowing you to search in your area on the other members of the site and to search on the various categories of their profile. Additionally, different cities and metro areas, the singles who are on the site vary in terms of how open they are to meeting other singles from the site, even if they do cite that they are single.
- Facebook Foibles and Faux Pas to Avoid
- Further Facebook Faux Pas and Foibles
- Facebook Dating Networking Tips
- Dating on Facebook Tips
- Warning Tip Guideline for Dating on Facebook Outside of Your City
- Facebook Dating Singles Approaching You Who Live Long Distance from You
What About Locals?
When they live in your metropolitan area, then go ahead and do be open to emailing.
What About Instant Messaging Before Meeting?
I always recommend avoiding Instant Messengering. Why? Because in most cases they are a tremendous waste of time! If your name begins with As and Bs like mine does, when you are Online at Facebook shows at the tops the Available for Chat list to your 1357 Facebook friends!
With you showing at the top of the list, they are predisposed to wanting to open a Facebook Instant Messenger chat session with you!
Time Waster:
Facebook Instant Messenger sessions can take 30-60 minutes just to engage in small talk. What a tremendous waste of your precious and valuable time! Don’t do it! Don’t succumb to the temptation.
Date Avoidance:
An Instant Messenger session is all the time commitment of an actual Date but you two chickened out and wouldn’t commit to meeting. Instant Messaging can be great once you’ve met and are dating. But leave it out of the pre-date string of behaviors.
Do Aim to Meet In Person:
Just as with Social Networking’s niche group Internet Dating sites, I recommend exchange a few emails to demonstrate a mutual ability to small talk and establish a little mutual interest. And then get going and go ahead and arrange to meet in person for goodness sake!
Tomorrow I will address more of the items to be cautious and wary of when Facebook Dating.
Happy Dating and Relationships,
April Braswell
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Eva Palmer says
November 10, 2010 at 10:18 AMHi Dating expert!
Good advice not to spend time on chatting on Facebook at least when you don’t know the person yet and also the importance of exchanging some e-mails before meeting to demosntrate the ability to small talk and establish a little mutual romantic interest!
Lila Curtis says
November 10, 2010 at 11:13 AMHi April, I really agree with the Instant Messaging tip, especially at a site like Facebook or MySpace, except in some cases. Most of the time I think it’s a waste of time and should be saved for after the first date. But every once in a while you find someone with whom you have a certain “chat chemistry” over email and due to busy schedules you won’t actually be going on your date for several days or a week. In those cases, it can sometimes seem natural to just take some of the email chatting into real time. You do have to be careful, however, that you don’t do this before you actually make your date because it’s too easy to get stuck in those months-long instant messaging relationships that are only a substitute for real human interaction and relationships. – Lila
Rae & Mark says
November 10, 2010 at 11:50 AMIM is more or less what brought us together, so it wasn’t a waste of time for us at all.
But we’re maybe the exception that proves the rule.
Rae & Mark
April Braswell says
November 10, 2010 at 12:13 PMHi Mark,
Thanks for stopping by my dating tips blog and commenting. You and your wife met on facebook IM? I don’t think I realized that that was the site where you two met. Remember this is for Facebook safety tips.
April
KRISTIN Hahn says
November 11, 2010 at 7:33 PMHI April
Make your own life easier get the date and everything you need, does this work for single men and women?
K
LorraineFulton20 says
November 12, 2010 at 3:39 AMI think that to receive the attention from single guys you must have a great motivation, April. But, once I have received a great guy, just because I wanted to. Facebook is fun still you gotta be careful
darin says
November 15, 2010 at 6:32 PMi am new at this facebook thing. dating at social netowrking dont really know what i am doing
Jandy Quismundo says
November 18, 2010 at 9:41 PMHello April! Your such an amazing person! I don’t expect anything lower than Greatness from you! Sorry that I’ve been out of commission! I’ve just been very busy with family and other things!
Thank you!
Jandy
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Dr. Wendy Schauer, D.C., R.K.C. says
November 21, 2010 at 12:19 PMI feel so old reading about dating on-line. There are so many options for people. The dating world is lucky to have you helping them.
Yours In Health!
Dr. Wendy M. Schauer, D.C., R.K.C.
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Michael Green says
November 26, 2010 at 5:41 AMJust keep posting good dating stuff like this for singles April. It’s so good to read.
Georgianna Schluter says
November 30, 2010 at 4:11 AMYour blog is perfect, and I like this article about dating and face book. I find the information I need. I think I can find more useful information here, thanks again April
Jerome Harrison says
November 30, 2010 at 7:47 AMIts about time someone said this. I think you’re right that most of the singles on Facebook and MySpace sending notes from abroad are fakes and scammers. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with the world, this is imoportant stuff to some of us to keep safe online.
Dana says
December 2, 2010 at 2:17 PMI think I would be open to meeting and dating cute guys from Facebook, but yeah only local. No one far away.
Harry says
December 6, 2010 at 3:33 AMNow a kewt gurl who lives nearby, that I would consider on Facebook.
Ching Bullara says
December 7, 2010 at 11:20 PM(pretty much like no one could send you mail or bills or paychecks for Facebook dating
Greg says
April 20, 2011 at 8:52 AMIt’s funny how some singles act on facebook. yah gottah be careful out there.
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April 21, 2011 at 3:39 PMFacebook is such a funny place and people act in such odd ways on it. Be careful.
Read Body Language of Woman says
April 27, 2011 at 12:25 AMSingles on facebook need to post more photos then we could read them better and what they are really like.