Are you the type of person that skims a lot of online profiles because they are so dull and uninteresting? If you're creating a profile of yourself take the time to put some interesting detail into your own online profile. After speaking with several single friends I learned they like to know what books someone likes. They want to find out the types of movies a potential date or partner enjoys, and to hear about their spiritual preferences. They would like to know the persons recreational likes. All these things are a big to help in understanding more about the person.

So doing these things, adding more detail, being more descriptive will help your profile stand out since many people will skip those sections or put in only a word or two in them. After all if you were looking for a date you would want to find an interesting person to date. So use that to your advantage and make sure your profile has all the little extras in it to capture the attention of more potential dates.

People like to know about what a prospective date learned from past relationships. So if you can satisfy that curiosity by writing about your compassion, acceptance and other qualities it should help considerably. If you have a lot of bitterness, anger and heavy baggage don't write about it, don't let it come through or you'll turn everyone off. If you still have a lot of unresolved issues from past relationships it is good to try to resolve them so you don't bring them into future situations. If they can't be resolved try to suppress them or better yet hold off looking for a date until you can control your emotions and feelings and eliminate or greatly reduce issues regarding past relationships.

When you create your username you can use a variation of your own name. Alternately you can use something that illustrates your interests such as skydivelover or masterchef etc. A lot of people love sunsets, bicycling, nature and eating out so if you do mention these things you should expand on them and mention additional interests in order to differentiate yourself from the crowd.

This way you will make yourself more unique. If you have an open mind about different spiritual traditions then it's good to list them and indicate your open mindedness. This will allow you to receive more responses. Same is also true for the categories of interests

and exercise that many online dating sites include. Even if you aren't into astrology, put down your sign as some people like to use that as an indicator as well. The more you seem like an ideal match the greater your response will be.

On many of the dating and matchmaking sites the frequency of logging in will determine whether your profile will appear near the top of the list. So it's helpful to login fairly regularly as those profiles become closer to the top whenever a site's order of profiles is based on activity date. Even if you don't have time to scan its often wise on those types of sites to have a frequent login if you value being near the top of the list.

Some sites allow you to wink or smile at someone. This is good, but I think most people prefer getting an e-mail as it helps them to get to know the person a little more and is more of a personal touch. When you get a wink or smile you can wonder if someone is just going through the whole list and doing that. Following these tips should help you meet someone more interesting or similar to yourself.