Q&A: When should you take your online dating profile down when you are dating someone? {rsstitle}
Question by Jay: When should you take your online dating profile down when you are dating someone?
Is it ok to keep your online dating profile when dating someone for a few months but not log in?
Best answer:
Answer by respekt
It depends on how confident you are in the relationship. Do you think he’ll be around for a while or is it just a casual relationship? But I think it’s best, so your partner doesn’t get any ideas, to take off the dating profile. I never used them before, but if there’s any account opinions that allow your account to be inactive, so you don’t have to go to the trouble of deleting the entire account, I’d do that until you seriously know how good this relationship is.
Best of luck!
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Im actually glad you asked this because I posted a question relating something similar to this.
If you have been dating him for more then a month then take it asap. You Don’t know what guys have seen online on a dating site- who could spot you out in a nightclub or bar and approach you and ask you out. If you are dating someone take down your profile so guys don’t get the impression you re single when you are not
Please Answer Mine. As it somewhat relates to your question
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100321080342AAZIZZI
Here’s my thought: at this point in your relationship if someone hit on you in public and asked you out (and you found them attractive) would you agree to go out with them?
If yes, then obviously you’re not overly committed to your current relationship so you could keep your profile up. If you would answer no, then you should take your profile down (btw, just hide it – you don’t have to delete it).
It really comes down to whether or not you’re trying to make yourself available to other singles or not. I think you should make a decision one way or the other: are you or are you not available? If you can answer that it becomes pretty easy.
On a side note, I regularly offer dating advice and I’ve seen this question quite a bit, almost always from women as: “Why does my boyfriend still have his profile up?” Keep in mind, “new” people aren’t the only ones who will see your profile if it’s still up: the person you’re dating might be the one looking at it. This can send a *very* wrong message to them about how interested you are and they might even put their profile back up! I actually wrote about this last month here: http://www.littleredrails.com/blog/2010/02/04/my-boyfriend-has-kept-his-online-dating-profile-active/