St Valentine's Day 2011 - Be Ready!
St Valentine has been and gone, again!
Yet another Feb 14th has gone - did you put yourself out there on the dating market, or are you still sitting at home wandering if you missed a good opportunity to find love? Oh well, if that’s the case, let’s start planning for Valentine’s Day 2011 now. Should give you plenty of time to research all the dating opportunities out there.
Firstly, let’s assume you have exhausted the normal routes of meting someone at work or through friends and relatives. What about hobbies? Trouble is, so many hobbies are for men or women and rarely coincide. There are pursuits enjoyed by both sexes that may help - walking, sailing, higher education, some sports, bird watching to name but a few, but unless you settle on something fairly neutral, most hobbies are divided into male & female pursuits.
So what else? Well, internet dating, of course. Figures just released say that internet dating grew by 16% last year in the UK alone, and although the exact figures of singles looking for dates on the net is not known, there must be several 100s of thousands. If you want to meet a potential date these days, you will not find a wider choice any other way and with the tools available to you on Footloose Dating, you should find it fairly easy to sort the wheat from the chaff and select a few people you’d like to meet. For instance, geographic criteria may be the first reducing tool. You don’t want to spend days and loads of money chasing about here and there, when there is sure to be a likely candidate within a reasonable distance. Next, maybe age could be a decider though this may not be such a vital influence in the mature age group. Family ties and job, if any, may be a consideration, as will interests, likes & dislikes and if a photo is available (vital), appearance. So say, out of the several dozen potential dates you started with you have reduced your list of ‘possibles’ to a manageable dozen or so, you should re-read the profiles with care, checking between the lines and if they have written a diary, check that and any other hints that will help you refine your list. Then the time will come when you need to take the plunge. If making direct contact seems a step too far - send a wink or virtual gift to break the ice and see what happens. Not everyone you contact will reply but hopefully enough will. Having started the ball rolling, now it is time to communicate. You have to be a bit proactive in this game so just sitting around waiting for someone to contact you will not bring in the best results. As with anything else in life, you get out of it what you put in, so go for it! Happy Valentine’s Day 2011.
Posted 14th February 2010 17:57:47 by Natalie Crosland