You’ve been exchanging on-line messages and sending flirty texts for a few days or weeks now and decided that neither of you are creepy. You’re ready to take this off the interwebs and into a first date. The meeting day arrives and you’re spending all day primping and prepping with nothing but the image in the profile pic of your date ingrained in your head…

His Profile Pic: Shirt off, rock solid abs, pumped muscles, and cool hair. (A tool if you ask me, but whatever.)

Her Profile Pic: Bikini babe, sipping on a fruity drink, with over-sized sunglasses, long flowy Kate Hudson hair and shiny lip-gloss you can’t wait to suck off her face to guess the flavor. (Typical.)

You arrive at the meeting place and greet each other with nothing but a mouth slightly opened and raised eyebrow kind of silence. Turns out he’s almost bald, she’s got a lazy eye and both have a few spare tires growing around the middle area. [Tip for Her: Spanks/Tip for Him: Sorry Dude.]

Why did this happen? More likely than not, they did one of the following when selecting their online profile pic:

1. Chose an out-dated photo of what they used to look like.
2. Took an image of their best feature or body part. (ahem….)
3. Ran a Google image search by entering “Hot Guy/Girl.”
4. Stole an untagged pic in one of their hot Facebook friend’s profiles and cropped themselves out. (Sad, but I know a few that have done this.)

Forget all that! Be honest. Keep your profile pic fresh and updated. You never know, someone may adore your lazy eye or naked head. There’s always someone for everyone!