polite in your rebuffs. Online dating etiquette dictates -- or at least suggests -- that each time a person makes a genuine and respectful effort to initiate contact with a fellow dating site member, the person being approached should decline with tact and diplomacy if they are not interested. One should say, thank you, but I'm currently looking for someone a little closer to home, someone with a different type of profile etc. Indeed, it is even acceptable to tell fibs in order not to offend a woman who has tried to initiate contact with you. Saying, "fuck off you fat cow" is considered to be a breach of the unwritten laws of Internet dating etiquette. 3. Be honest about your intentions. If all you want to do is meet and fuck as many women as possible, then perhaps you should not entice women with promises of a golden future together and a tribe of kids. On the other hand, if you do want that long-term thing, then maybe it's a rather bad idea to be contacting the good time party girls with no intention of settling down to family life in the near future. Either way, you are leading the women -- and yourself -- up the garden path. 4. Don't tell lies about your personal circumstances. Claiming to be a rich man when you can barely rub two pennies together is a recipe for disaster. If you do meet women online using this tactic, you will be found