The Artist Formerly Known as Oehm-Doggy

The day-to-day adventures of a naive mid-westerner living in the heart of lala land...

Friday, April 22, 2005

eharmony.com

So eharmony advertises that they have eight million people in their database. They let you know this because eight million is a lot of people. Of course you will find the person of your dreams if you have eight million people to sort through. This is what my co-worker thought while she was filling out an hour's worth of profile questions the other night. Turns out, that in all of eight million people, there was not one single match for her. She is young, cute, smart and has a good job. She reads, volunteers, engages in witty conversation and has incredible fashion sense. You would think that these are all desirable qualities in a person. Nope. No matches for her. She is depressed. I figure that it is just a sign that the people on that site are looking for dull, insipid, unattractive people, which peobably means that they are dull, insipid and unattractive themselves and she doesn't want those kind of people anyway. I toldl her that. I don't think that it helped.

Try it yourself! www.eharmony.com
(but don't blame me if it turns out that no one wants you!)

2 Comments:

  • At 12:41 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    eHarmony and the religious right:
    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/5/145919/2183

     
  • At 10:42 AM, Blogger Danila Medvedev said…

    eHarmony doesn't just find matches for the users, it finds potential couples. This means that not only the potential match should like your co-worker (there might be many people who would like her), but that match have the characteristics that would make your coworker like him.

    The better the person is, the more unique he/she is. It's not that easy to find a perfect combination of two unique people. Tell her not to be depressed, eventually a match will be found and she may find someone she is compatible with, not just someone who will like her.

     

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