matching
Miss Kendra mentioned match.com, so I thought I’d weigh in on them as well.
That’s where TG and I met. (Want his profile?! Want my profile?! I bet you do!)
I think match.com overall is pretty good. True, it depresses me sometimes, but that’s because I see it as a garbage-in-garbage-out situation. (HI. I DONT KNO WHAT TO WRIT HEAR.)
For someone who prefers written communication, it is great to read profiles and see what kind of sense of humor and intelligence shines through.
My profile is (TG, feel free to correct me) rather unique (a rare gem!), and very “me”; not necessarily in the facts I share but in how I share them. I don’t get a ton of responses, but I seem to get a high percentage of responses from people I’d actually like to meet. That works for me. I’m not in it to stroke my ego or make me feel popular.
match.com lets you see everyone, everything. It’s up to you to decide what to do. And I can tell you right now, if you have had a typo in your profile for months and are too lazy to correct it? I know exactly what to do.
Match is testing a new idea, chemistry.com. I guess it is supposed to be like eHarmony (of course, I wouldn’t know.) They send you profiles and walk you through steps before you are allowed to freely email. I have gone through the steps, and found it interesting but not necessarily worth the extra time and effort.
Oh, and I put another picture on my profile. A prettier one, I think. Since then? I’ve got increasingly more emails that just say, “Hi cutie!” or “I’d like 2 chat with u.” Blech. But that’s a whole ‘nother post.
I met my boy on match, too! I have to give them props for that. And for aggressive advertising - if their ad hadn’t kept pestering me every time I checked my hotmail, in a million years I probably never would have just gone looking for that site.