You can get away with more exaggerated humor and funny/cocky attitude on Tinder than you can on other apps and dating sites. So this is your chance to get creative, show some personality and have a little fun. Here is a funny online dating profile example for men that really works: #1: “Humorous, Over-The-Top” Profile for Tinder.

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After all, dating is really just a numbers game and basic math cannot be argued with. You exhale loudly, throw your hands up to the universe, locate your phone, and begin swiping.

This time will be different. And you might be right, but I can almost guarantee that you will come across the following characters in your travels.

Not to be scoffed at, these men can show you a good time, but it might not be a long time.

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1. Mr 'Corporate'

Works at a bank or one of the big four accounting firms and wears his work lanyard to your first date.

He’ll brag to you that he keeps spreadsheets of all his financials and has the smarts to invest in the share market without assistance from apps. He’ll also claim to 'work hard' and 'play hard', but really, he just snorts drugs off a piss-drenched toilet in some sleazy bar.

Pro: You can attend one of the firm's glitzy end of year balls. They usually put on a great spread and have an open bar. Don’t expect to meet anyone cool though – most of them are just as boring as the accountant stereotype perpetuates.

Con: He’s only concerned about his own finances so don’t expect him to set up your investment portfolio.

2. Mr 'Tradie'

A salt of the earth individual who will drive you in a modified 1990 Toyota Hilux to his special spot off the beaten track. You won’t be sure if he’s legally allowed to enter the property, but you won’t care because it’ll be such a sweet gesture.

He’ll tell you he’s always been more of a 'hands-on' type of guy and would rather castrate himself with pliers than set foot in an office.

Pro: There are no shades of grey and you’ll always know where you stand with him. He’ll be good with his hands and you’ll have an on-call mechanic, plumber, builder, electrician.

Con: He will have approximately zero interest in any of your work-related dramas. In fact, he might even fall asleep mid discussion. His work parties will also be an extreme sport, and he’ll fall off the grid for days while you worry about him dying in a field of alcohol poisoning.

3. Mr 'Barrier'

His profile will have 'candid' photos of him looking vacantly into the distance, and there won’t be a shred of personal flair in his bio. Not even a lame joke.

This also sums up his personality too. He’ll convince you he’s an 'enigmatic soul' that with time can be nurtured into a decent boyfriend. You’ll never quite know where you sit with him, and he’ll pull random disappearing acts, only to reappear and act like absolutely nothing has happened.

Pro: Nil, but if you like emotional roller coasters, strap yourself in, because you are in for a hell of a ride.

Con: Emotionally unavailable undercover player who is here to waste your time. Ghost him.

4. Mr 'Public Servant'

He’s an all-round nice guy that’ll insist on paying for your drinks and dinner on the first date. He’ll earn a six-figure salary doing a job you didn’t even know existed or is required for the government to function.

Day-to-day he’ll spend a suspicious amount of time 'working from home' while simultaneously send you memes.

Pro: He will always be counted on to provide easy company over dinner, or cuddles while watching a socially conscious Netflix doco. Your mum would approve of this guy.

Con: You won’t be able to put your finger on exactly why, but this man will bore you to tears.

5. Mr 'I’m a Big Deal'

His LinkedIn personal statement will be copied and pasted into his bio. You can generally sniff this guy out by his profile picture alone. Spoiler alert – it’ll be a picture of him public speaking at the local Lion’s club.

He’ll have a moderately important job and generally this is his major trump card in all conversations. His favourite activities will include emotionally dumping his work-related drama on you while strategically ignoring everything going on in your life.

Pro: Great networking event guest. You might meet some cool people through his connections.

Con: Basically, an emotional vampire who needs your validation to boost his fragile ego. His position and money might give you a few nice experiences, but it’s never worth the energy you’ll have to put into this guy.

6. Mr 'Freelancer'

A creative soul who has a large Instagram following and has 'ironically' created a dating app profile. His bio will claim he hates online dating, but he’ll surprisingly instantly respond to all your messages.

What he does for a living is a mystery, and it’ll baffle you how he manages to keep himself financially afloat. When he starts sending you pics of himself in the spa at his parents' mansion (that he lives at for free) it will begin to make sense.

Pro: Will take great ‘candid’ Instagram photos of you. If you’re an aspiring influencer - you might gain a few followers courtesy of his sizeable following.

Con: He’s basically unemployed and obsessed with his online presence. Prepare to hear stories about how other ‘mainstream’ influencers stole his artistically superior ideas.

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Women have taken to Instagram page @ByeFelipe to call out the different kinds of abuse they have received from men.Source:Instagram

LADIES, put your hands up if you have been called a derogatory name by a guy on a dating app. You’re not alone.

Hundreds of Australian women are taking to the Instagram account @ByeFelipe to expose men of their crude and obscene messages when rejected or ignored.

The Bye Felipe name is a play on the saying “Bye Felicia”, the often quoted dismissive farewell given by Ice Cube in the movie Friday.

The account has brought together more than 425,000 followers, posting almost 650 instances of men retaliating on dating apps. Posts highlight examples of unsolicited harassment, unwanted nude selfies, and abusive messages directed at weight and sexual orientation.

Some of them go a little something like this:

Guy: “F**k you then fat white b***h. No one will ever love you. Mainly because of your size and your archaic beliefs.”

Girl: “Lmfao. I’m not the one begging for attention and I don’t need your approval, so joke’s on you a**hole. #byefelipe.”

Then there are the women who cop abuse for not replying quick enough, or at all.

Guy: “Hello I’m Stan, nice to meet you. You’re so attractive to me and I love your cute face”

Same guy: “Stuck up b***h”

Different guy: “Wana hook up? HEY … YOU SPEAK WHEN I TALK TO YOU, UNDERSTAND?!”
“WOW someone thinks they’re too good. Well you’re not. You are soooo overrated,” another male user said.

Sadly, the world of online dating has attracted more and more men with limited standards, respect and overall dignity, with @ByeFelipe proving just how bad some messages can get.

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Another woman copped this abuse for not responding.Source:Supplied

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The account’s creator, Alexandra Tweten, like thousands before her, signed up for online dating in the hopes of finding a decent guy.

Instead, what Ms Tweten discovered was a world of abuse and harassment as men, feeling spurned by rejection, lashed out in the most vile way they knew how.

“A lot of guys take the fact they think they’re anonymous online to be more bold and say things they wouldn’t normally if they saw you in person,” she told the ABC.

It didn’t take long for her to create the Instagram page @byefelipe, uploading

screenshots of the abuse. She’s even turned it into a book describing it as “disses, d**k pics and other delights of modern dating,” which officially went on sale two days ago.

Alexandra Tweten, the founder of @ByeFelipe, has turned her Instagram page into a book.Source:Instagram

Other women quickly followed suit and what started as a project between friends back in 2014 grew into an online movement.

Many have reached out to Ms Tweten thanking her for creating the page and for giving women a voice.

“Because a lot of the time women said, ‘I didn’t know that other women went through this, I thought that I was the only one’,” she told the ABC.

“So it’s kind of a sense of community and just understanding.”

There’s plenty of other similar Instagram accounts including @tindernightmares which shy of 2 million followers and @instagranniepants, an account which takes the comments and turns them into cartoon depictions of the men and their messages.

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This girl got called an a*****e for not replying.Source:Supplied

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Research fellow at RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) Anastasia Powell, who specialises in policy concerning violence against women said the hostile responses can be traced back to gender stereotypes and expectations.

Dr Powell told the ABC that people often tried to save face when rejected and that in modern society it was more socially accepted for men to express anger as an emotional response than to reveal sadness or vulnerability.

“On top of that, modern dating is still subject to a lot of gender stereotypes about how ‘good’ or ‘proper’ men and women are meant to behave, and how sex is meant to be negotiated,” she said.

“According to the last National Community Attitudes Survey on Violence Against Women, a lot of Australians still believe that men should be in control in relationships.

“So for some men who hold those attitudes, being rejected in a dating situation might really go against their idea of how ‘good’ women are meant to behave.”

While the major dating sites are all trying to tackle the issue either by blocking and reporting abusive users, providing advice on how to stay safe online, before meeting up with strangers — ultimately, the onus is often put back on the user.

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A 2017 poll by Relationships Australia, found that 21 per cent of female respondents thought online dating was unsafe.

“Keep your communications limited to the platform and really get to know users online/using the app before meeting them in person,” reads the online advice for dating app Tinder.

“It’s up to you to research and do your due diligence.”

Over the past two decades there has been an increasing trend towards people using the internet and dating applications to meet new partners, the poll revealed.

It is the second most preferred way to meet a new partner behind introductions through family and friends and is ahead of other traditional channels including interest-based clubs, holidays, pubs or bars, work and social networking sites.

IT GOES BOTH WAYS

Women may be just as likely (or perhaps, in some cases, even more so) than men to troll, but it depends on the context in which this behaviour is being explored, said Evita March, Lecturer of Psychology, Federation University Australia.

“Previous studies on trolling behaviours show that men troll more than women in online forums, gaming and even Facebook,” Ms March said. “It’s unclear at the moment as to why women are engaging in similar amounts of trolling behaviours as men are on Tinder.”

She said one possibility is that women are engaging in higher rates of trolling.

“For example, on the social media platform Twitter, women are just as likely as men to use derogatory language such as ‘s**t’ and ‘w***e’,” she said.

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“Perhaps Tinder users are viewed as easy trolling targets, due to the “desperate” stigma that some people still associate with online dating.

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“Considering the easy and free access to Tinder this would certainly satisfy the dysfunctional impulse of the troll, on contrast to paid sites such as eHarmony.”

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Let’s not forget the case of 29-year-old Karen Ilya Laing who was jailed in February this year for sending a man (she met via Tinder and went on one date with) nearly 200 abusive text messages in just 46 hours. She was sentenced to 10 months behind bars and barred from using her mobile phone or internet.