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How long should a dating profile bio be?

The short answer

Two or three short lines. Long enough to contain something specific, short enough that it gets read on a phone. An empty bio is worse than a mediocre one - it reads as a bot or as no effort.

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Length is not the real problem

A three-line bio of adjectives fails for the same reason a twelve-line one does: nothing in it can be replied to.

Judge it by whether a stranger could write you two sentences without inventing a reason. If not, it is the wrong content, not the wrong length.

What earns its space

One specific thing you actually do. One statement of what you are looking for. One hook - a mild opinion or an unfinished story.

Everything else is decoration.

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