eHarmony.

I really have never found the appeal of the online dating service. eHarmony, in particular, is guilty of pandering its services with what they call a "Compatability Matching System". I may not be the wisest man on the planet, but I'm still under the belief that this things called "chemistry" between people is not something I want to chalk up to a matching system.

Matching systems were made for printing presses, not relationships. :\

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Eleo

This automated and mathematical pairing seems rather unnatural.

It's not just that either. That whole matching system gives me a very uneasy feeling about it. It seems that we are now beginning the process of de-humanizing the very thing that makes us human: Love and compassion.

I don't know... eHarmony pontificates left and right things like, "meet people who will love you and cherish you" only to be followed by "taking our 28-point compatability quiz to find your match". I'm sorry... Something doesn't click in this equation.

The internet is my place for entertainment. It's where I do my work. It's where I buy useless electronic gadgets that will be obsolete in 3 months. It's where I hunt for secret celebrity sex videos. It is NOT the same place I want to associate a pivotal point in life like "meeting my soulmate".

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by MetheGelfling

That eharmony guy wishes he was Don Knotts...

Jesuscrucifuckedchrist... Don't even get me started on him. That guy gives me the fucking creeps.



I mean, look at this old fuck, for fucking fuck's sake!

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by AliceNWondrland

Because you do realize that the chances of getting matched up with someone you "click" with physically are slim to none, right? I mean, what are the odds? That sort of thing rarely happens meeting people in person; I shudder to think how much more rare it is when two people are matched up by a computer.

THANK YOU! I don't know there have been times when I thought I "clicked" with someone only to be let down, so there is a certain amount of truth to that. eHarmony sells a dream, not a reality and it really is pretty disconcerting to see this happen.

By and large, I have found that the best relationship I can honestly say I regret having ended was the most imperfect one. I'm not saying it was the most fucked up one here, I'm saying that it was the one that was filled with all the quirks and imperfections that REALLY made every little thing worth remembering.

I already have a group of friends who I "click" with. I would DIE if I had to put up with the same kind of projected illusion of perfection in a relationship.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Skexis

Uh, you're acting as if it can't work, which is a far cry from you don't think it would work for you.

Whoa there, Nelly. I didn't say that it couldn't work, nor was I discrediting the fact that in fact it may work for some people. But I did, like you said, say that I think it wouldn't work for me because I don't see the appeal in it. I just think it feels like this rather detached and almost auto-mechanical way to meet people.

But hey, you could be right; I mean, it does work for some people. eHarmony isn't the largest and most successful without reason, I just don't agree with its practices, is all.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

I think they should learn how to deal with society instead of hiding from it, yea.

I kind of see where you're coming from, but I'm with RR on this... I'm all for getting all the idiots laid. Because if we could get some of the "idiots" laid we wouldn't have that many of them.

For example: I lobbied to use some of the Serious Business AdSense funds to get Simply Majestic a fucking escort. That's really all the kid needed, I guarantee it. If he could have let out some of his sexual frustration by donkey punching a handsomely paid hooker, maybe he would be a productive member of Gamingforce. And thus now, he's banned.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Devo

Are you off your rocker?

Well, fuck... Maybe I am.

Double Post:

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

It's kind of like feeding wild animals.

But if you FORCE FEED them, they become subservient. Do you see where I'm going with this?

RAPE 4 $ALE~

FELIPE NO