Just as with normal off-line relationships, online relationships have to be tended and to be allowed to grow over time. Here are a few quick growing tips:
1. Take Time and Make Time: Does your online date get in touch with you regularly? 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 too hasty about organizing a meeting, for example, that can create bad feelings. Therefore, please, don’t rush things; just take your time to learn more about each other and develop 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 Fun Items: when online: send online greeting cards; links to favourite websites where you can upload digital photos of your favourite pet or car; download music and video clips; post on favourite forums of mutual interest. When offline: if you’ve swapped 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 tree).
5. Share Recipes: People get tired of talking about the weather, so a popular subject to take refuge in is food. Sharing information about favourite foods and recipes helps to break the ice and even helps form friendships over your culinary skills, or the lack thereof, and tastes. Search your favorite search engine for free recipes to share and take photos of your culinary creations and share them with your date as well.
6. Bidding at Auctions: Ebay auctions sell anything and everything! Therefore, surf about and enter searches like the dates you were in middle school. Share nostalgic photos of old games and toys from when you were a child or when your parents or grandparents were little.
Online dating can be an educational and fun experience. So, go on, learn more about each other and have fun while youre at it! Take a cyber-stroll down ol’ memory lane together and see what’s cookin’. Tend your online relationship, water it with care and over time it can sprout and grow.
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