Just as with normal real-world friendships, online relationships need to be tended and to be allowed to grow over time. Here are some fast growing tips:
1. Take Time and Make Time: Does your online date email you often? Do you do the same? Neglecting virtual meetings can be considered not nice, so treat each other’s time with respect. If it’s lacking, it could mean that it is time to move on.
2. Communication Needs to “Feel” Right For Both of You: If one of you is being too pushy about having a meeting, for instance, that can create ill feelings. So, please, don’t rush; take your time to learn more about each other and engender trust.
3. Respect Each Other’s Privacy: Don’t send the other person’s email addresses or digital photos to your friends, for example; especially if your online friend emailed you the information privately.
4. Share Special Online and Offline Enjoyable Times: when online: send online greeting cards; links to favourite sites to upload digital photos of your favourite pet or car; download music and video clips; post on favourite forums of interest. When offline: if you’re exchanging addresses or post office boxes, send printed greeting cards and postcards and/or small items from your area (like a key chain with your state motto).
5. Share Recipes: People get tired of just discussing the weather, so a very popular subject to take refuge in is food. Sharing information about favourite foods and recipes will break the ice and even help form a friendship; talk about your culinary skills, or the lack thereof, and preferences. Search online for free recipes to share and take photos of your culinary creations and share them with your online date as well.
6. Bidding at Auctions: Ebay auctions sell anything and everything! So, surf around and enter searches like the dates you were in middle school. Share cool memorabilia of old games and toys from when you were a child or when your parents or grandparents were small.
Online dating can be an educational and fun experience. So, go on, take the time to learn more about each other and have fun while youre doing it! Take a cyber-stroll down ol’ memory lane together and see what’s cookin’. Look after your online relationship, water it with care and over time it can sprout and grow.
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