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The Secrets Behind Taking The Best Online Dating Photos!

Trey Hamilton
11 min readJun 19, 2023

So you decided to sell out and join online dating cause you realized it’s no different from meeting people in real life, eh?

I’m not here to judge.

Okay, that was a lie. I am here to judge.

But I am here to help. These skills single-handedly helped me get more matches than I ever imagined.

Your photos are the primary source and reason why women swipe on you. Yes, the bio is very important too, and most women will insist on that, but count on most people being lazy as hell and understanding the photos matter! No matter what performative BS someone might say to pacify your feelings.

In a study published in 2016 by PLoS ONE titled “Judgment of Photographs from Social Networks: Unfavorable Evidence Weighs More Than Favorable Evidence,” it was found that users frequently form an immediate judgment about a person based solely on their profile picture. Moreover, this judgment often outweighs other information that might be presented in the profile (Toma and Hancock, 2010). So please believe me when I say an attractive and well-crafted photo could significantly increase your match rates and be the difference between an amazing match and just another 15 minutes of mindless swipes. So even if your bio is amazing, one bad picture just one throws them off the…

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Trey Hamilton
Trey Hamilton

Written by Trey Hamilton

Author - The First Date Fix - Dating Coach - Content Creator -Dog Dad | follow me for some ramblings of a millennial who has dated. A LOT! TheFirstDateFix.Com

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