Sunday, September 27, 2009

Your Name Is?

So let's be honest, when browsing through numerous profiles of available men (mostly available, b/c some are mysteriously separated but apparently are in hurry to find someone for the moment), one of the first things to catch attention are their photos and their names. I'll leave the photos for the next time, so let's talk about names.

Naming your profile is like coming up with a book title - it has to say something about who you are, be catchy, creative, and stand out. There are plenty of the standard name+city, or name+birth year, name+occupation profiles (having dr or law is quite popular and prestigious).

Some profile names, however, send me directly to the "delete" key. If you have words like baby, big, 69, Jesus, daddy in your name, we're not a match. Having creative abbreviations and perhaps intentional misspellings can be amusing - who can't use a brain teaser once in a while, right?

So here's the assignment. Go back to your profile, look at your name and ask yourself what is the first impression that it gives about you. Would it catch your attention?

1 comment:

  1. Jesus Grande of Columbia is very upset that you hate his name.

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