If I join a dating site what can my username be?

[Lighthousekeeping]

I'm in two minds about joining Match or something. I'm fed up either working or going out with my lovely but much younger friends or watching some great show on Netflix. I'm losing abit of weight and I'd quite like some male company. Haven't been near one for three years now. The longer it goes on the worse it feels. So I've just had a quick look and the first thing they need us a user name. I have no idea!

[DaleyBum]

WealthyBigPenis

[Janethegirl]

Not the same username as you use on any other internet site, but possibly a variant so you can remember it.

[Fluffyears]

Fedupwithfrogs.....takeMEout......oddsock (as in looking for your other half)...

[UnexpectedItemInShaggingArea]

You can have this one if you like :)

[rabbitlady]

upforitcallme.

[cardamomginger]

Please don't choose anything cute and twee. A friendly acquaintance did online dating some years back and chose the user name Hunny Bunny. It has forever changed the way I view her.

[SaucyJack]

Dinnerlady.

[rabbitlady]

hunny bunny

aww. that was my first rabbit's name.

[AlpacaYourThings]

Something funny and not desperate or girly.

So not "PrincessPeaches" or "Looking4aHubbie"

[Innogen]

Mine have always reflected my interests.
I don't mind sharing:

politicsandperfume is generally me. Perfume because it's girly and I'm into all things feminine/beauty/style related, and politics because it is my academic specialism, job and one true love.

[ComposHat]

Hotlips69?

[Lweji]

Like pp, I think one that reflects your personality and interests is a good bet.



BTW, I use hunny bunny a lot, in humorous reference to the cafe would be robbers in Pulp Fiction.

[ComposHat]

Joking aside, something quite neutral and generic that gives nothing away. Something like RedBus, blueyonder, or the name of a favourite plant (unless it is poison Ivy! ) you can get random name generators on the internet if you get really stuck.

Then put the effort into writing the profile itself which I'm sure we'll all be happy to help you with.

Having been online dating, I only tended to notice the bad usernames and would be actively put off by certain people's profile names (anything twee or infantilising or with the word princess in it) or anything that smacked of desperation or embarrassment to be on a dating site. So avoid anything like dontknowwhatiamdoing7 or lonely&confused41.

Also people trying to point out how kerazy or 'fun' they are. It might be me being a boring bastard but I always imagined that going on a date with someone with a user name like bubblybird or krazykat would be like being trapped in a lift with a Butlins red coat for three hours whilst they demonstrate how zany they are.

[ComposHat]

Oh and if your chosen name is taken don't simply add a number to it, if you are queenofhearts75 and there's a queenofhearts74 who is a borderline racist, insults people and has 'killer' tattooed on their forehead, you don't want to risk getting mixed up with them in a potential date's mind.

[HairyGrotter]

ThunderCunt

[cardamomginger]

lwej - she wasn't a Tarantino kind of person.
rabbitlady - exactly. Your rabbit was a rabbit. So it makes sense!
composhat - 'trapped in a lift with a Butlins' redcoat' - very funny .

[Lweji]

I didn't think she was.

[isisisis]

Angela Hernandez?

[cardamomginger]

Or Samantha Brick?

[BrunoBrookesDinedAlone]

DeathBunny

Dogtanian

TheGrinningChuff

RobertJohnson

HappyToes

TheFerret

LibrarianNights

OP the list is endless! Go on think outside the box (not that your potential swains are likely to alas).

[grovel]

Scrubber.

Suggests that you're domestic............

[Squeakyheart]

I had my first name and city I lived in, originality and wit not being strong points! In fact it took weeks to join MN as I couldn't pick a name.

I joined match and met my DH there and my only piece of advice is to drop your standards! DH's spelling and grammar are atrocious which was a big no no for me but we met up and haven't looked back.

[rabbitlady]

cardamomginger

just for the record, all my rabbits are rabbits.

so far.

[cardamomginger]

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[YoungBodyOldHead]

Foxy Lady

Some of the suggestions on here are really good