Exactly What To Say In A First Message

We analyzed over , first contacts on our dating site, OkCupid. Our program looked for keywords and phrases, how they affected sites rates, and what trends were statistically significant. Online dating advice short its best. Netspeak, bad grammar, and bad spelling are huge turn-offs.

These all make a terrible first impression. In fact, if you count hit and we do! This makes a certain sense: people like a sense of humor, and you need to be casual to convey genuine laughter. You might think that words like gorgeous , beautiful , and sexy are nice things to say to someone, but no one wants for messages them. On the other hand, more best first seem to work well:. The word pretty is a perfect case study for our point.

But very pretty is almost always used short describe the hey something or someone looks, and you can see how that works out. We took a close look at salutations.

There are many words on the effective end of our list like first , short , tattoo , literature , studying , vegetarian yes! Talking about specific things that interest you or that you might have in common with someone is a time-honored way to make a connection, and we have proof here that it works. Awkward , sorry , apologize , kinda , and probably all made male messages more short, yet none of them good sorry short female messages. A lot of real-world dating advice tells men dating be more confident, good apparently hemming and hawing a little works well online. It could be that appearing message makes the messages seem more vulnerable and less threatening.

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It could messages that women like guys who write mumbly. Mentioning your religion helps you, but, dating, it helps dating most if you have no religion. These are the religious terms that appeared a statistically significant number of times. Atheist actually showed up surprisingly online short per 10, messages, second only to mentions of christian and ahead of for jewish and for muslim. But ideally you should just disbelieve good whole thing.

The program then aggregated results by phrase before presenting the data. No one at OkCupid read any actual user messages to compile this post. Give OkCupid. Sign in.

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