That fine line

There is a fine line in online dating messaging where you are nice and enthusiastic about a date prospect and you come off as a weird clinger.

It's a bit fuzzy but the line is definitely there.  Anyone who participates in the ever-evolving mating dance that is online dating knows that there is an art to message writing. Some learned Do's and Don'ts:

• Do have a day or two of light messaging with the high level questions 
• Don't ask me to go camping with you immediately following my response of "Hi"
• Do ask about where I live or about something that you read in my profile.
• Don't ask things that require me to write a novel in response 
• Do understand that everyone has a lot of things going on in their lives that are outside of OkCupid - frankly I hope that you are someone who isn't able to check their profile and messages all the time, I won't be.
• Don't get angry or throw a fit if it takes me a bit of time to get back to you.  This does not bode well for our future interactions and I don't actually owe you anything after some messages online.
• Do check your grammar - I know I said this before but dear god please!
• If you want to, do actually ask me out.  Don't just reference the time that we're going to see each other.  Just ask, it's not like it's even a face to face interaction.

Like I said, a fine line, but a line that can tell you a lot about the people you are "talking" to.