If you do have previous online dating experiences, you will know that you will need to turn someone down only after you weighed the seriousness of the relationship.
The regular process of online dating can be broken down into several stages: The Spamming Stage You are sending out multiple messages to many people to get them interested.
In short, you are trying to cast a wide net instead of casting individual baits.
Initial Contact For purposes of initial contact, you can send someone a wink through instant messaging to display your interest.
Hopefully, this other person invites you to pursue them further.
Ice-Breaking Stage Now, you can exchange email addresses and ask each other about your respective hobbies and dreams about the future.
Anything stage beyond the ice-breaking stage is not a good idea to reject the other person directly.
This is because it is better to reject the other party as the both of you still do not know each other really well.
Most people might want to know more about the prospective matches before hitting the reject button.
Therefore, they hurt their prospective matches only when they declare their rejection in the later stages of online dating.
This is not recommended even though it is accepted in the online dating arena.
But, do you want to risk yourself being thrown out of the dating pool for a long time? What I usually ask online dating subscribers to do is to either reject the other person indirectly or to use the indirect excuse such as, "I am still looking for other people to meet.
Until I am ready, I hope you understand that we can still remain as friends!" As a woman, I need to let the rest of the male online daters know that when a woman sends you an indirect excuse, it is just another rejection.
We will make ourselves ready if we really fancy you.
Don't take it too personally; there are plenty of other fishes in the sea!