Funny Dating Profiles
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When I first started dating online, I believed that it was important that my profile be funny. Unfortunately, I found the harder I tried to be funny, the worse my profile became. Eventually I gave up on trying to be funny and just used my profile to describe myself and what I was looking for. Looking back, this change went a long way towards improving my profile and eventually my overall dating success. As the saying goes, it is far better to be clear than clever.
From what I have seen, men are the ones who believe their profiles must be funny. To these men I ask this: do you think a woman is more likely to respond to a profile that is funny or one that has qualities she is looking for? I suspect the majority of women will pick a profile that has thetraits she finds desirable.
And yes, being funny is a desirable trait. However, being funny and trying to be funny are two very different things. Trying to be funny is difficult. Trying to be funny to total strangers in nothing more than a paragraph of text is even more challenging. Don’t believe me? Log into your preferred online dating site and look at a few dozen guys’ profiles. Keep a running total of those profiles that are funny versus those that are obviously trying to be funny. I’m confident if you do this you will realize why trying to prove you’re funny often has the opposite effect.
My advice: abandon the attempts to be funny. Write a clear profile and if it happens to be funny, that’s great! It’s also fine to list being humorous as a trait you have but don’t feel as if you then have to prove it! Being funny should not be your goal. Your goal should be to describe yourself clearly to your potential dates. If you absolutely must attempt to make your profile amusing, get some opinions from some friends before posting it. But above all else, never sacrifice understandability for humor.
You might also be interested in reading:
- A Profile Review to see a real-world example of how attempts at humor, even simply describing your humor, can cause confusion
- The Profile which is a general overview of the profile creation in my Online Dating Guide
