That is, the first impression is very important, and the first impression that you give has much to do with your choice of the personal headline. If your personals headline gives the impression that you are a fool or a bore, or too selfish, etc. the person seeking a mate to get acquainted (or to establish friend/love relations) will just go on cruising down the page, paying a disdainful attention to your ad not even bothering to click on it and learn more of the advertiser. But your do not want to be left on the roadside of a new adventure, do you? You are expecting to be clicked on as more as possible.
On most sites you have a place to place about 100 characters to create your personals headline. Be careful, a poor headline can negate a good username. Also, try not to sound conceited. Such personals headlines as ?A lovely gift to the world? are not looked upon kindly, are laughed at and are not taken seriously.
Your personals headline can determine the kind of person you want to attract. If you mention in you headline that you are only looking for fun, then you will hardly find a person to establish love relations with. You will be taken as a fun-maker by the online community.
It is better to have a simple, unsophisticated personals headline, that says a just in a few words. For example: ?Successful Woman Seeks Non-Smoker?. You have a rather useful hint of information about both the woman and the man she wants. (smokers may not bother to address a business hit). This headline will ward off the man this particular woman doesn't consider as future partner (business or love, depends what you like more).
If you do not place a picture of yourself, you good give a brief description of your appearance in your personals headline. (Attractive and Fit Man Seeking Interesting Woman). If further on you do not speak in an arrogant tone, this headline will not seem too conceited.
Try to be original with you personal headline. Avoid overused phrases and words that can be found in a great number of headlines. Adventurous (will you take you love to the jungles every summer?), Unique (you have five ears, eh?), Good things come in small packages (what do you mean, guy?) and so on and so forth.