It's a horrible sign of desperation when one starts actually looking at online dating sites. Says too much about who I hang out with and where, eh?
I have, so far, completely crossed two out of the running. TRUE and eHarmony. Both for different reasons and yet for the same. Both are interested in collecting money and neither is interested in providing the goods and services promised. Poor customer service isn't a way to run any business!
Others are expensive. Some are just filled with folks that make sure you KNOW why it is that they are on an online dating site! My friend, Roger, showed me that from the women he'd been getting messages from. (Don't worry, Roger is real and a friend for over 30 years who is really awesome!) In fact, it was because of Roger that I decided to try this and see what appeared.
Don't get me wrong, Roger and I are proof there are real people, good people on these sites, but finding my ex-husband's profile (while we were still very married - the papers hadn't even been filled out, much less filed) on MATCH was a shocker!
It also showed how much "screening" was actually done. His entire profile was filled with lies from the number of marriages to the number of children to the amount he has to file taxes on to his career. Now, every time I read over a profile, I wonder how much of it is real and how much is some man's delusions of grandeur!
I'm starting to think they had it right in previous generations - castle balls are professed to work on occasion and the town matchmaker may have been more of a service than recognized!
Hmmmm.... Information super-highway, you are creating some speed bumps! The closest thing to a castle ball I've seen online is the Dee's Dances webpage!
Thursday, June 11, 2009
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