Hack your Dating Profile
Did you know you can hack your dating profile?
When Amy Webb turned to online dating she thought she could just copy and paste her resume in to her profile. So as you can imagine, she didn’t do dry well in the dating stakes. But before throwing in the towel she did a bit of research on how to create the perfect profile.
Check out her Ted Talk titled: How I hacked online dating.
Webb found that the words that people used in their profiles actually made a big difference.
Here’s some of the transcript from her talk > So I’m at the end of this bad breakup, I’m 30 years old, I figure I’m probably going to have to date somebody for about six months before I’m ready to get monogamous and before we can sort of cohabitate, and we have to have that happen for a while before we can get engaged. And if I want to start having children by the time I’m 35, that meant that I would have had to have been on my way to marriage five years ago. So that wasn’t going to work.
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If my strategy was to least-expect my way into true love, then the variable that I had to deal with was serendipity. In short, I was trying to figure out, well, what’s the probability of my finding Mr. Right? Well, at the time I was living in the city of Philadelphia, and it’s a big city, and I figured, in this entire place, there are lots of possibilities. So again, I started doing some math. Population of Philadelphia: It has 1.5 million people. I figure about half of that are men, so that takes the number down to 750,000.
I’m looking for a guy between the ages of 30 and 36, which was only four percent of the population, so now I’m dealing with the possibility of 30,000 men. I was looking for somebody who was Jewish, because that’s what I am and that was important to me. That’s only 2.3 percent of the population. I figure I’m attracted to maybe one out of 10 of those men, and there was no way I was going to deal with somebody who was an avid golfer. So that basically meant there were 35 men for me that I could possibly date in the entire city of Philadelphia.
For men, the adjectives, “perceptive”, “physically fit” and “passionate” are more likely to motivate women to start a conversation with them. While adding the words, “quiet”, “energetic” and “respectful” to a profile can have the opposite effect.
Words such as, “sweet”, “funny” and “ambitious” receive more interest. But the words, “spiritual”, “quiet” and “romantic” fall flat.
We’d love to hear what you think? Have you pimped your profile? Has it made a difference to the type of people who have contacted you?
