A lot of socializing on dating websites takes place on their message boards and chatrooms, and while that may seem like a waste of time to some people, those two venues are great ways to get a sense of people’s personalities and get a feel for how they treat other people. It’s also a great way to assess someone’s level of intelligence, what topics they’re interested in, how articulate they are and how argumentative they are. These are all very useful things to know about people that we might want to date, and all this information is available to us right on our dating websites.
When people are in a singles chatroom, it can be kind of easy for them to forget that they’re not totally anonymous and that sometimes people they may want to date might be in that room watching their behavior. It’s easy to see if they’re rude to others for no apparent reason. It’s a great way to see if they gravitate toward drama and fighting or if they’re argumentative just for the sake of being argumentative. It’s a great way to tell if they are judgmental or intolerant of other people or other people’s ideas. It will become apparent if they are into all the cliques that get formed by people in these types of venues. It’s also a way to see if they have a lot of people that dislike them. It may not mean much, but if a lot of the gender and age that they say they want to date seem to dislike them quite a bit, there could be something to that. It might just be something to keep in mind.
If we are among the many who find using text speak outside of actually texting to be irritating, check out the message boards and see what potential love interests are writing and how they’re writing it. Do a search to see old posts to see if the details of their romantic relationships were plastered all over the boards, if they broke up publicly in an embarrassing display of private information or if they seem to be having a lot of cybersex with a lot of people that they never ended up meeting, or if they continued to flirt online with people when they were in a relationship.
