The Bitter Truth About Online Dating

In his photo he had a chin.
Okay, so the photograph was snapped from a distance, but looking back she swore she saw a chin. Maybe it wasn’t a chiseled George Clooney chin, but there was some kind of separation between the head and neck.
“He seriously didn’t have one,” says the 30-something woman who stepped up her love-hunt game by joining an online dating site.
“I swore I saw a chin in the photograph,” she says.
That’s the power of photography.
If taken at the right angle, under flattering lighting, and from a safe distance, a photograph can conceal our more undesirable characteristics.
Then comes real life — and it’s on that first face-to-face date when lying can come back to haunt us.
“In the age of digital photography, there’s no reason not to have a great photo,” says Kim Hughes, editor-in-chief of the online dating site Lavalife.
“You’re not doing yourself any favours by putting up your college photo if you’re 40. Avoid the baseball cap and sunglasses. (Online dating is) not intended for people who want to be online indefinitely. Sooner or later you’re going to have to meet in person.”
Another woman recalls entering a restaurant and walking straight past the “athletic” guy she’d met […]

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