Experienced online daters will tell you that the game begins once your inbox starts filling up with emails or notifications of interest. Depending on the online dating site you’re using, the notifications will have different names, such as a wink or icebreaker.

You’ve gone through a lot of hard work to get your online dating profile set up. This is done for one specific reason; to get your profile to stand out among all the other profiles on the site. You’re hoping that others will want to get in contact with you to find out a little more about you.

For those of you who are just getting started with online dating, here are a few tips to get you started without offending others. In our everyday lives, we try to live by the etiquette of society, so the internet should not be any different.

Let’s start off with the negatives and get them out of the way before moving onto the positives. Since most initial conversation takes place through either an email or chat, let’s start with some basics.

• Don’t type in Caps. This is the internet equivalent of screaming. TYPING IN CAPS IS FROWNED UP.