The six biggest online dating mistakes men make

 

THE online dating world is a thoroughly competitive arena with thousands of lovelorn romantics all competing to nag a "wink" and a "kiss" and stand out from the cyber pack. 

 

But talk to anyone who’s had a flutter on a dating site, and they’ll inundate you with a litany of horror stories from their experience.

And according to one online blogger, men are the worst offenders.

Ouiser Boudreaux, the ghost writer behind the A(n)nals Of Online Dating, a blog which shames the worst online dating offenders, says men are constantly making the mistake of not being their “best self" online.

“I get around 100 submissions a week and 80 to 90 per cent of those are from women about heterosexual men,” says Ms Boudreaux. 

“Of course women offend too but in my experience, it's the men who have to do most of the blind initial messaging, so maybe it's a law-of-averages thing.”

“You have a lot of guys who are trying really hard to set themselves apart and end up coming off as really weird or creepy, like guys who use pickup-artist techniques online,” Ms Boudreaux told AskMen. 

"And then you have guys who say or do things online that they would never do face-to-face, because it would be too awkward."