What Active Now, Nearby and Top Soul Mean on Boo

Active Now means the person was active on Boo in the last 30 minutes, and Nearby means they are within 1 km of you. New Soul means they signed up in the past 7 days, and Compatible Personality means your personality types are compatible. Top Soul means the user ranks highly on how complete their page is and on other factors Boo weighs.

Active Now means she used Boo in the last 30 minutes. It is the most useful tag on the list, because it tells you when to act.

A woman who is on the app right now can answer right now. A message she gets while she is scrolling lands in a live moment. The same message tomorrow lands in a pile of everything else that arrived overnight.

So when you see Active Now on someone you like, do not save her for later. Send the heart or the message then, and keep Boo open for a few minutes in case she answers. A conversation where both people are on the app at the same time moves quickly, and quick is exactly what gets you from a first line to a plan.

Nearby means she is within 1 km of you. That is walking distance.

Keep in mind it tells you where she is right now, not where she lives. She might be at her office, at a friend's place, or at the same gym you are standing in.

Use it in the plan, not the opener. Leading with "I can see you're close by" feels odd from a stranger. But once the conversation is going well, being near each other makes the ask easy: "There's a good wine bar ten minutes from here. Thursday?" A date that is a short walk away is an easy date to say yes to.

New Soul means she signed up in the past 7 days. She is new to Boo and still working out how it works.

Two things follow. A woman who only just arrived may not have built up a long list of requests yet, so a good message has a better chance of being read with some attention. And she is still forming her first impression of the men on the app. Be one of the good ones: specific, friendly and not pushy.

This tag means your two personality types fit well together. Boo gives its users personality types, so this tag hands you an easy first line.

Use it lightly. "Apparently we're compatible. I'll need some evidence." works better than a paragraph about what your types mean. It turns a label into a small game, and a small game is easy to answer.

Do not treat it as a verdict, either way. Compatible types on paper do not promise chemistry over a drink, and plenty of good dates happen between types that do not get the tag. It is a reason to start a conversation, nothing more.

Top Soul means the user ranks highly on profile completion and other factors. In plain terms, she has filled out her profile properly and Boo rates her well.

That tells you two things. First, a Top Soul woman probably gets a lot of attention, so a lazy "hey" will disappear. Your first message has to be specific to her to get noticed at all.

Second, it tells you something about your own account. Profile completion is part of how Boo ranks people, so fill yours in completely. Answer everything Boo asks you to answer, and answer it with some personality. a dating coach's advice on written answers is that being boring is the real danger: a page that is merely acceptable gets lost among all the other acceptable pages. A half-empty profile gives women less reason to reply and gives Boo less reason to rank you highly.

Tags are useful for deciding who to message first and when. They do not tell you whether she will like you. That still comes down to your first photo, what you wrote, and the first thing you say to her.

Use Active Now to pick your moment, Nearby to shape the plan, New Soul and Top Soul to judge how much effort a first message needs, and Compatible Personality for an easy opening line. Then write something that is actually about her.