Because the way love works in general, you don't need everybody to like you somewhat - you need one person to like you a lot.

I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words.

To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored.

Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women.

Use correct grammar and punctuation. Do not use net speak, like WOT, W-O-T or U. Those messages get a lot lower reply rate.

Because the way love works in general, you don't need everybody to like you somewhat - you need one person to like you a lot.

We noticed recently that people didn't like it when Facebook "experimented" with their news feed. Even the FTC is getting involved. But guess what, everybody: if you use the Internet, you're the subject of hundreds of experiments at any given time, on every site. That's how websites work.