There are tons of amazing, legitimately single, totally earnest people out there in the wide, wonderful world of internet dating. But there are also some duds. Big, fat, disappointing (or disappearing) duds. This list isn’t meant to scare you away from online dating. This is more of a confrontation of the worst possible scenarios. Let’s stare the beast in the face and move on.

Nobody puts "lame-ass loser" on their internet dating profile, so to help squash the percentage of people who are dating lame-asses for the reason of simply not knowing what constitutes a lame-ass, I hereby present you with 7 simple qualities you absolutely don’t want in a mate:

Get ready to feel better about whatever is aching at your heart these days, as I declare this: no matter how messed up your dating and internet dating decisions seem to be, there will always, always be a shameless celebrity who is or has done something just like it, only way dumber and way more public. See? You feel better already, don’t you?