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.

Dudes have been making up stuff about themselves probably since there have been dudes.

People tend to prefer their own race online in terms of the volume of messages.

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.

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

Women are much more discriminating. I think both types of people are equally interested in having an attractive partner. But women essentially give the thumbs up to only half as many guys as guys giving the thumbs up to women.

Even at the person-to-person level, to be universally liked is to be relatively ignored. To be disliked by some is to be loved all the more by others. And, specifically, a woman’s overall sex appeal is enhanced when some men find her ugly.