After months of perusing online dating sites, creating multiple online dating profiles, playing Tetris with key characteristics, and five paychecks wasted on dry dates, a’las, you’ve found your match! Now, the million dollar question (or whatever amount you’ve dished on these online dating services, unless it’s free like PhoneFling)…

“Do you keep your online dating profiles up and active?”

After taking an independent poll, made up of a few co-workers, Twit-Heads, and even a few BFFs, I’ve concluded the answer to this question is influenced by the direct correlation between your dating objective and your dating type:

The “Sack-Roller” isn’t looking for anything more than a roll in the sack, a pounding on the hood of a car, or a bladder stabbing in a dark corner. Like the sack-roller’s sex drive, their online dating profile will remain active.

The “Cruiser” is a bit more complex. The cruiser likes relationships and wouldn’t mind having a relationship, but is analogous to that of a job-seeker. Once a job-seeker lands that job, does the job-seeker keep his/her on-line resume updated and active? Sure. Why? Because the job-seeker is always open to newer and better opportunities, IF it exists. However, the job-seeker’s response to newer and better opportunities is swayed by their current state of contention. Meaning, offers may still come in but can be rejected or ignored if the job-seeker is perfectly satisfied with his/her current position. Just like the job-seeker, while the cruiser may keep their online dating profile active, responding to other “offers” or “requests” may be in-active.

The “Sucker…” well, I think that’s self-explanatory.

There you have it. But now that I think of it, what you do with your online dating profile post-connection isn’t really up to you, is it? No. It’s up to the “connecteee” and how they feel about you keeping it active while you’re with them. In that case, the answer is “Yes” to all.  (Well that was a waste of energy.)