1. Check out for the right match rather than just wait for their email to arrive. Even if you being a gal have to make the first move, don't be shy do it. Guys generally email all gals who look decent without even thinking if she is their type or not.
   
   
2. Golden rule: Don't ever lie about anything. If you are 35 don't say your are 34, if separated don't say divorced because truth will come up one day, especially on a first date stick to the thought that "honesty is the best policy".
   
   
3. Avoid exchanging too many emails, keep the email exchange to minimum say to five, you should get a fair idea from these five mails whether there is something in this relationship or not. It has been observed that too many email exchanges create problems later because there is no guarantee that e-compatibility can rub off to real compatibility.
   
   
4. Talking on the phone won't help you either in deciding whether this is the right date for you or not. Again here phone compatibility doesn't confirm that you will have the same spark in real and also a lazy talk doesn't mean that you guys will not click and unnecessarily you will miss out on a good match.
   
   
5. On a first date try to go for a coffee and avoid dinners, because if the date is not your types you had spent not much and wasted not much but 30-40 minutes. If you find something going then you can always plan a nice and a cozy dinner date.
   
   
6. Just reach before time and buy a drink and sit down with something to read so that you don't look silly standing in a corner and waiting for your date to come and always have a nice exit line ready incase there is a problem.

Try not to get over excited and build too many expectations from your first Internet date.