It is a better strategy to simply be honest about the kind of relationship that you are looking for on dating sites.

If you are actually looking for a romantic relationship, you should indicate that in your online dating profile.

If you were to input that you are looking for friends in your online dating profile when in fact you want a romantic relationship, you may find it harder to get people to initiate contact with you.

Most people who use dating sites are looking for romance or a hook up.

They are not there looking for friends.

They will typically reserve looking for friends by sticking to social media sites.

If you feel that it may be a better strategy to look for friends on dating sites in the hopes that if you click with someone, you can date them, you should ask yourself about why.

Most people that you interact with on dating sites are going to want to spend some time getting to know you anyway.

Most people aren’t going to want to simply jump into a relationship with you or date you.

Hence, you will still have a good amount of time where you get to interact with people on dating sites before knowing whether you click with some of them.

Perhaps you feel that it would be a better strategy to look for friends on dating sites and if you click with someone, you can then date them, because you just don’t want to end up being misled by someone.

Perhaps you even worry that some people are simply too much in a hurry to date and thereby, you need to set the parameters that friendship is what you are looking for on your online dating profile.

The danger of doing something like this on dating sites is that, as described before, many people will not initiate contact with you as a result.

Again, most people on dating sites are looking to date or hook up.

The ones who decide to interact with you may be those who already had a lackadaisical approach to online dating anyway.

In other words, they may have joined dating sites simply to find people to talk to with no inclination or desire to ever meet a significant other online.

Indeed, some of these people may already be in relationships themselves in the real world.

Being that your actual ultimate goal is to meet someone to date on dating sites, you may start developing feelings for this person as the both of you interact.

However, this person only started communicating with you on dating sites because you indicated that you were looking for friends in your online dating profile.

They were already on dating sites in order to simply chat with people and nothing more.

Hence, you were a prime candidate to do that with.

You are now developing feelings for them and they are completely emotionally unavailable to you.

You may keep up with this charade of chatting with them on dating sites in the hopes that they will eventually tell you that they would like to pursue a romantic relationship with you.

However, they don’t.

You spend more time chatting with this person on dating sites, expending more and more of your precious time and emotional energy on them.

This person stays the same.

They merely communicate with you as they would an online friend and that is it.

By the time you gather up the courage to ask the person if they would like to take their interaction with you beyond friendship, you may already be really emotionally invested in this person.

When they tell you that they don’t see you as anything other than a friend, you are left devastated and heartbroken.

This is why you should be very weary about using the strategy of looking for friends on dating sites in the hopes that if click with someone, you can date them.

If your true goal by being on dating sites is to meet a romantic partner, using this kind of strategy can be dangerous.

Though you may end up clicking with someone, it doesn’t mean that the person will feel the same way about you.