Lesson #15

If the "duck face" profile picture is such a no-no for girls now, then guys (grown-ass ones, at that) need to put down the cell phones and step away from the mirror.

Lesson #14

You might be one of those people who think it is shallow to judge someone based solely on their picture. However, if you don't even bother to post a picture, I'm not going to bother to take you seriously.

Pictures are important, whether you think they should be or not.

Lesson #13

If your name is Dog, I'm going to have a really hard time getting past that.

Don't use nicknames on your profile.

Lesson #12

Don't post so many pictures of yourself with other people. It's a lot harder to figure out which person is you if we're distracted by everyone else in the pictures.

Lesson #11

Dating, in its purest form, is hard work. Online dating, in its most rudimentary form, is 1,000,000 times harder work. Honestly, you might want to a hire an assistant to keep up with it all. And if you don't have the time to date in real life, you definitely don't have time to date over the internets.

Lesson #10

This applies to the various online dating services available: if you have levels of communication involved in the process, maybe name them something other than "Stages 1-4". Stage 4 just sounds like a cancer.

Lesson #9

Some guys are just better on paper.