I’m enjoying editing my Match profile every few days, adding the date and uploading new photos like it’s a blog. Only problem is there are very few interesting people on Match around Boston. So I’m moving over to Yahoo Personals because I can’t find a niche site thats right for me. I miss the old geographic-targeted dating sites. Where is the new local Boston dating site? It’s not Craigslist, I’ve surfed that and backed away slowly every time, who are these people?
A service like Twitter would be perfect for Match. Same goes for Facebook’s Notes, where short text blurbs can be easily added to your profile and Mini-Feed.
I subscribe to lots of Mini-feeds on Facebook. Susan Mernits at Yahoo Personals just popped up, stating:
Susan Mernit is planning how to fix bugs and prepping th attack The Big Bug List and scope it down. Fun.See, it ain’t all poetry.
Now I have no idea what this bug list has to do with. Could be anything, or a Yahoo Personals product that’s on a development server. Or is it issues with the live server? Security problems, credit cards, personal information? I’m not being alarmist, just saying that without context, the increasingly granular communication channels like Twitterstreams out there can be easily misinterpreted.
I’d still like to see dating profiles become more like blogs. Static profiles are so 2003. I guess phone calls and background checks are more important, because they bring in revenue immediately and dating sites are loath to implement anything that doesn’t allow them to charge members.
For all the revenue-hunting that dating sites are doing (who said spending more on advertising was more effective than fixing your broken site?), they tend to ignore the very simple things that have the potential to make the largest difference.
I’m off to go for a ride on Codzilla.
