Over the weekend I joined eHarmony. I had not joined the site in over two years and I was curious to see what has changed. I’ll tell you what has not changed, the hour and a half it takes to get yourself situated on the site.
Hundreds of questions, $10 enhanced personality test and what felt like a dozen emails and I’m finally in the system. Problem is, the system thinks I want to meet 43 year-old women under 5’3″. Maybe they could spend some of that revenue on better matching. Or is that how it works? A week of sub-optimal matches, and then the amazing women start flooding my inbox? What are the chances?
I actually like the eHarmony model, then again, I’m not gay or depressed, I’m just lazy and I like that they do the matching for me. When I’m on Match or any other site I end up spending 4-6 hours a week sending and responding to emails. That’s a lot of free time eaten up that I could be doing something else.
I remain mystified why men and women are still answering the same questions. Forget the scientific matching for a moment, realize men and women are different and ask them different questions.
A final nitpick about eHarmony. I don’t like how they let you decide at what point during the join process other people can see their photos. Hiding photos, don’t waste my time with that.
I joined eHarmony because I am developing a new join form for a dating site and its always a good idea to join a few sites and take screenshots of the process to really get to know the differences between sites.
So I have a folder of screenshots, lots of older women to mark as unsuitable and a good idea what to do and what to avoid when it comes to a join form.
Today I receive what is probably the 10th email from eHarmony in the past few days, stating that I need to upload a photo. Problem is, I already have photos uploaded.
Off to rejoin Match/Yahoo PlentyOfFish and a few other sites. Is there someone I can pay to do this for me?
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There are so many dating sites on the internet, which one is the best?
Now I’m on millionairecupid.com, I think it’s good, any ideas of it?
I had the same problem with reminders to upload photos, finish my profile, etc after I’d already done it but they’ve stopped. They’ve had a lot of system problems over the last week or so (the site has been down hard, as in non-pingable, for a few hours now). I Googled them and got a Sun press release about how eHarmony is switching to Sun servers as of last fall, maybe it’s time to pull that press release…
Wow I had no problem with FilipinoFriendFinder,
best place to meet younger women. Like my wife. You can see her pick on my blog. And she’s taller than 5’3.
i’ve been using http://www.friskiedating.com…you can upload videos aswell as pics
I think standardized questions are really how they manage to match people – like if two people have the same answers, they can automatically be matched by the system, so I think same questions are kind of necessary. Anyhow, thanks for the heads up. This is really a helpful article.
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