Ettiquette:

When you look at someone's profile and decided to send them a message, how can you have a better chance of getting a response?

~First read the entire profile
~Be sure to let them know that you read their profile and make a comment or question about something on their profile
~Be friendly and let them know you will be looking forward to hearing back from them.
~Don't send messages that only contain phrases like 'you are hot' or 'what's up?'
~If you are horrible at spelling or grammar, it might help to type a message into MS Word and doing spell check and pasting it into email

If you receive a message from someone and you aren't interested?

~Send a response and let them know that you are either not interested or are not looking for a relationship at the time.
~If you continue to get messages after you have made it clear that you don't want to correspond with them, block them
~If you get an inappropriate message, don't respond and block them

What happens if you are in the forums and you find someone that you are interested in?

~Take a look at their profile
~Send them a message commenting on something posted in the forum or on their profile


Warning Signs:

-they want to know everything about you but don't give any information about themselves

-they overly call you pet names before even getting to know you

-once you have gotten to know someone,they don't directly answer serious questions; they dance around the answer

-they ask very personal questions that you don't feel comfortable answering

-they dont email, call, or im when they said they would and dont have an appropriate answer for why

-they are overly jealous or controlling of your time and energy


Most of us are on here in the hopes of finding the 'one'. Be careful to not confused negative attention as someone being interested. Have respect for yourself and your personal space. And lastly, trust your intuition and don't ignore it!


Tanya

Okay...let's add the signs of a scammer in here:
They are usually very handsome?pretty
Their pics look as though they come from a magazine
They immediately tell you how wonderful you are and ask for your personal IM...DON"T DO IT
They never can put up a different pic...some how not available
They are normally "very rich"
From another country but now live in the states
Work for a large corporation
In love within a week and want to travel to see you
And want you to be the mother of their children

* and they type in very broken English...just from my experiences