Facebook Dating Profile Examples for Guys

A strong Facebook Dating profile has a clear first photo, a few pictures of your real life, and answers specific enough for a woman to reply to. The examples below show what that looks like, with the reason each one works. Borrow the shape and write your own details, because a profile made of someone else's lines tells her nothing about you.

Facebook's help pages say Dating suggests people from a few things. These are your profile information, your stated preferences, and shared Facebook Groups and Events. So the details you put in are not decoration. They are part of how a woman who likes the same things ends up in front of you, and the other way around.

That is a good reason to name the real thing you do. "I like being outdoors" matches nobody in particular. "I run a Sunday trail group of six slow people" gives her something to picture and something to ask about.

a dating coach's test for any dating text applies here: general statements fade into the background, and specific ones stick.

"Weekends I am usually on a bike, then at a diner pretending I did not just burn the calories I am about to eat back. I know every pancake place within thirty miles."

It has an activity, a place and a joke at your own expense. She can ask which pancake place wins. Notice that it never says "active" or "foodie," because the scene already does that work.

"I teach high school chemistry. The best part of my week is when a kid who swore he hated the subject asks a real question."

It states the job in plain words and shows what you care about in the same breath. A title alone, like "educator," would carry none of that. If your work is hard to explain, give one concrete moment from an ordinary day.

"I would like a partner who laughs easily and also tells me when I am being ridiculous. Good conversation at the end of a long day matters more to me than a perfect plan."

It is warm and it names the goal. It leaves out what you refuse to put up with, any mention of an ex and any hint of complaint. A profile that opens with demands reads as a man still angry about the last one, and a dating coach teaches keeping anything negative or needy out of what you write.

"I am on my fourth attempt at a sourdough loaf that does not double as a doorstop. Ask me about the third one, which fell off the counter."

Small, true and funny. It shows you try again after failing, which is a nice thing to learn about a man before the first date. It also hands her an easy question.

"I have a retired greyhound who is afraid of the vacuum, the doorbell and my neighbor's cat. He is the only one in the house who gets to be dramatic."

A pet with a personality gives her a story to ask about, and it shows you are patient with something that needs it.

The first photo is a clear, recent picture of your face in good light, looking like yourself on an ordinary good day. Then add a few that show your actual life: a trip, a game with friends, a meal you cooked.

Leave out the gym mirror, the shot with sunglasses hiding your eyes, and the group photo that makes her hunt for you. A picture she has to decode is a picture she skips.

Another man may have copied the same lines, and a man who sounds like everyone else disappears. Worse, she will ask about the bike ride or the greyhound, and you will have nothing to say.

Write your own from the same questions. What did you do last weekend? What did you cook or fix or finish? What made you laugh out loud? Your own week is better material than any sample here.

Read each answer aloud. Could a hundred other men have written it? Then it needs a detail only you would know. Does it leave her an easy thing to ask? If not, add a scene. Is there a complaint, a boast or a plea hiding in it? Then cut that line.

Plenty of men can tell a good story across a table and stall at a blank text box on a phone. A coach can take your rough answers, tighten them and show you which ones are working, so the page sounds like you on a good day.