PART THREE: PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
How Important Are Your Physical Characteristics?
In Part Two of this Series, We considered the trends and preferences of online daters regarding lifestyle turn ons and turn offs. Well, you might be thinking to yourself, lifestyle characteristics can always be changed, hidden, or at least non-disclosed in your personal or profile. On the otherhand, most physical characteristics, however, are pretty obvious and self-evident.
This explains why overwhelmingly the NUMBER ONE discriminating characteristic (whether lifestyle, physical, astrological, or otherwise) turns out to be your looks! Nearly sixty percent of online daters surveyed reaveled that their initial and primary selection criteria for picking potential mates was online photos. Online daters first want to see their potential date before they decide to check out lifestyle, physical, and other relevant characteristics. Cyber love searchers want to see pictures more than all other descriptive criteria combined!
This obviously suggests that forking over the dough for a digital "glamour shot" may be money well spent when it comes to online dating. Apparently the old axiom that "you know it (or him or her as the case may be) when you see it" is alive and well in the virtual dating world.
How Important Are Specific Physical Attributes?
Keeping in mind that your smiling mug is the most sigificant criteria by which other online daters will determine your potential compatibility and level of estimated "love connection", what about the specifics you wonder? Well, the importance of specific physical attribututes in accepting or rejecting an online mate were ranked in the following decending order: Weight (45%), Age (33%), Skin Color (8.6%), Height (5.3%), and Eye Color (4.5%). In summary it appears that as for physical characteristics, almost half of all adult online daters would reject a potential online date based on the person’s weight. Another third wouldn not accept someone outside of their target age range. Everything else is comparatively irrelevant. Too bad we can't shed a few years along with those pounds!
