Things People Do to Sabotage MySpace Relationships

Meeting people to date on MySpace is like meeting in the "real world" in many ways. You still want to make a good first impression. You search for people who have some of the same interests as you and make contact.

But meeting on MySpace is also quite different from in person in that you don't have body language or pheromones on which to rely. When it comes down to it you are only engaging a person's senses of sight and possibly sound if you leave a voice greeting. Here are some things not to do when you are communicating with the world through words and pictures alone.

Posting a sexy profile pic when all you want is someone who appreciates you for what's inside. I'm talking to the girls who take pictures of their butts as well as the guys who pose in front of a mirror with their shirts off. Who wants to date someone who puts it all out there for anyone to see? People want to get into a relationship with someone who leaves them wanting more.

Judging someone too harshly based on the attractiveness of their pic. I'm not saying to date people whom you find to be dog ass ugly. But you may find the chemistry better offline than on MySpace. Just as there are people who photograph well but look like trolls when you meet, or who post an old picture that no longer represents them, there are people who don't photograph well. Usually when someone is nervous their picture turns out bad. So if you're enjoying talking to them on MySpace, that is all that really matters because you never know how they will look to you when you actually meet. And even if they aren't potential relationship material, you could make a good friend for life.

Adding people to your MySpace friends list just to pad the size of it. This includes sending out mass add requests as well as adding every spammer that requests you. If you have 2,000 friends, even though most of them are bands and webcam girls, someone worth going on a date with may not message you because he will think you're too busy to notice one more person. Or he might think you're too superficial.

Using netspeak. This makes you sound like an idiot. "OMG I'm ROTFLMAO, UR teh funneh" is not the proper way to respond to a funny message unless you only want to meet people who can't spell or use proper grammar and syntax. When will people learn that intelligence is a turn on, not a turn off?

Acting like you are all that. When you write statements in your own MySpace profile about how hot and sexy you are, you come off as arrogant. And that is neither hot nor sexy. Say when describing yourself, "I think I look pretty good" or "people compliment me on my eyes/shoes/voice/whatever." Let someone decide for themselves on your date if you are the best thing ever; they're going to anyway.

Finally, and most importantly, forgetting that there is a whole word of things to do offline. Either spend some time every day getting out and doing things, or at least look like you do by turning off the "online now" icon. You don't want people to think you spend all day refreshing your MySpace page looking for new comments, even if you do.

And what will you do when you do go on a date and you're twitching because you can't get to your computer? Or worse, when you do get into a relationship and you're fighting over the same computer, or messaging each other when you're in the same room? Ultimately, isn't a relationship off of MySpace the whole point?