This poor lass wrote to Miss Information in despair:
My dating profile has been active for years. Literally. Guys will hotlist me and look at my profile over and over, but they rarely reply to my emails. Any tips?
Not only did Miss Info give her some great advice (“Stop bringing up your family. You answer eleven questions. Grandma & co. show up four times. Unless I have an incest fetish, I don't want to be thinking about your kinfolk when I'm taking the first steps toward doing the dirty.”)…and the readers opened the floodgates, as well. Yes, “good personal hygiene” should be expected, TM!
If you’ve ever needed help crafting that personal, check out Miss Info’s “Unf*ckable Five” — the five dealbreaker terms that people use in online personals.
Or, if you’ve read a helluva lot of unf*uckable online profiles…help this chick out. Check out the Feedback here, and post your own wisdom, too. My personal pet peeve? I know we’re all human, but dudes and ladies: check your spelling. A misspelled word can be the difference between a hot librarian checking out your books, and a hot librarian checking you out.