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I would have named it matchdotcom, but that URL in blogger.com is curiously already taken and includes nothing but links to online "dating" sites.
I'm a 42-year-old single male living in central Connecticut and currently working in New Haven.
I feel I have had my go-around with match.com. I have never filed any complaints, but when I heard about the lawsuit I thought I'd go back to the service, pay my three-month membership fee and see what happened. It's been one week. I've sent 125 e-mails, some of them probing the issue of the lawsuit and whether some profiles are fake, others introducing myself to some fellow "users" because I found something in their profiles interesting, in common with me, attractive, provocative, or any number of other things.
I have received 25 e-mails in return. I have spoken with two people on the phone and I have met one person who, while we had talked about being friends and how much we had in common and how easy it would be to be friends whether there was "chemistry" in our meeting or not ("chemistry" meaning physical or sexual attraction).
There apparently was no "chemistry" as she put it, and in an email in response to an email of mine saying the meeting was pleasant, she wished me luck and sent me on my proverbial merry way.
The other person I have spoken to on the phone is in the same industry as I am, is ten years younger than I, told me some horror stories about dates and fellow match users she has communicated with via email.
I have heard several horror stories actually from fellow users who do seem to be authentic single women who are using match troll the sea of singularity for potential fish. These stories have led me to believe that up to 60% of the men on match.com are cheating on either their wives or girlfriends. They have also led me to believe that the majority of men using match have "only one thing on their minds," and we all know what that is. For many men, according to my correspondences, sex is the first thing they want to talk about, which would lead one to believe, that most of the men either aren't really looking for a relationship, or they don't know what the ingredients of a relationship are, or at least what the ingredients of the beginnings of a relationship are. Or, perhaps some of them have "gotten lucky" just finding sex.
I would have named it matchdotcom, but that URL in blogger.com is curiously already taken and includes nothing but links to online "dating" sites.
I'm a 42-year-old single male living in central Connecticut and currently working in New Haven.
I feel I have had my go-around with match.com. I have never filed any complaints, but when I heard about the lawsuit I thought I'd go back to the service, pay my three-month membership fee and see what happened. It's been one week. I've sent 125 e-mails, some of them probing the issue of the lawsuit and whether some profiles are fake, others introducing myself to some fellow "users" because I found something in their profiles interesting, in common with me, attractive, provocative, or any number of other things.
I have received 25 e-mails in return. I have spoken with two people on the phone and I have met one person who, while we had talked about being friends and how much we had in common and how easy it would be to be friends whether there was "chemistry" in our meeting or not ("chemistry" meaning physical or sexual attraction).
There apparently was no "chemistry" as she put it, and in an email in response to an email of mine saying the meeting was pleasant, she wished me luck and sent me on my proverbial merry way.
The other person I have spoken to on the phone is in the same industry as I am, is ten years younger than I, told me some horror stories about dates and fellow match users she has communicated with via email.
I have heard several horror stories actually from fellow users who do seem to be authentic single women who are using match troll the sea of singularity for potential fish. These stories have led me to believe that up to 60% of the men on match.com are cheating on either their wives or girlfriends. They have also led me to believe that the majority of men using match have "only one thing on their minds," and we all know what that is. For many men, according to my correspondences, sex is the first thing they want to talk about, which would lead one to believe, that most of the men either aren't really looking for a relationship, or they don't know what the ingredients of a relationship are, or at least what the ingredients of the beginnings of a relationship are. Or, perhaps some of them have "gotten lucky" just finding sex.
posted by Christopher Zurcher at 5:06 PM
1 Comments:
Interesting idea and site. I had also heard about the lawsuit and was wondering. I met a woman on Match that interested me so I actually joined so we could talk. Then after a couple days she gave me her number. A couple of attempts to get her on the phone and I finally succeeded only to be told she would call me back. She then emailed me saying she was done with Match and no intersted in dating anyone anymore.....only I've spotted her on the site while looking through the people who have viewed me. Classy!
Of course, I too have sent a lot of emails only to get either a) ignored or b) form mail replies.
I know a person who met their future husband this way but I'm beginning to wonder about it. I'm in the minority I guess in that I am not cheating on anyone just searching. Seems the women are expecting Mr. Perfect to walk through the door. If I were perfect (not that I'm a bad catch) I'd have been scooped up already.
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