You need to have a good profile to attract the right person, and that's what I do, is I help people make sure they put the right information. That's if the guy reads your profile.

And you need a decent picture in order to attract a man to look at your profile. So a guy who's motivated is going to read your profile.

Often you want to show you with your grandchild.

As cute as that is, I'll say, ladies, do you really want that man to think of you as a grandmother?

And you know what? You can mention your grandmother in your profile.

And then when you're on the date, you can always pull out those photos.

But on your profile, you're not the grandmother.

You're you.

This is Dating Wall Gray, the grown-ups guide to love, sex, and relationships.

I'm Laura Stasi.

We've explored some fairly complicated topics on this podcast.

But after hearing from listeners, I think it's time to circle back to the basics.

On this episode, it's Dating 101, the Online Profile.

If you want a humorous look at dating apps and older gay men,

I can recommend Neil Patrick Harris' Netflix

series uncoupled. But on this episode, we're talking only about heterosexual dating because

that's what I know. If you've ever put together an online dating profile, you know it basically

goes like this. You write a short paragraph

to introduce yourself and pair it with a photo. And that becomes, well, think of it as your cover

and you're a book and people will be judging your book by its cover. So you want your write-up to be

intriguing and you want your photo to be flattering.

You're aiming to entice people as they scroll through all the covers to click on yours.

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