Curiosty...
Curiosity got the best of me a couple weeks ago! I was at Bux reading through a book Jlaw handed me. "Marriable" by Michael and Hayley DiMarco. It's a book for sinlges. Michael and Hayley are a pretty awesome couple...one of those couples you see interacting with one another and KNOW that God put them together.
Well, they met on a Christian Internet Dating site. I've heard a lot of talk lately about these sites and thought hmmm...I wonder what this is like. So, out of curiosty and because it made us laugh...JLaw and I signed up on Christian Mingle.com...the same site where Michael and Hayley met. (Note: we did not have any intention of meeting someone for real) The registration process took FOREVER. We had to answer a billion questions and take a really lame personality test. Once the picutures were posted and registration was complete we began to look at our matches. The names these guys chose were CRAZY! They were names like Darkchild, or goodol'christian boy, Deacon519...etc etc etc. Needless to say, Christianminle is a joke. They had you fill out preferences on what ethinicty you are looking for, age requirements and all kinds of other stuff. Jessi and I had 50 and 60 year old men looking at our profies and sending us smiles. Even through I required a caucasion/non hispanic within at least 500 miles of my location I had guys for spain, turkey, africa, and paris sending me their info. By then end of my 7 day free trail...over 300 guys had viewed my profile. Several sent me smiles...others sent me some stupid greeting cards...and there were a few brave souls who sent me emails through the site.
I told my sister about the experiment and she suggested I sign up for EHarmony's free trial to compare the two sites. She knew some people who met on there and said it was really a good site. (She was grossed out by christianmingle when I showed her a photo of a 52 year old man who had sent me an email. He was sitting in his recliner with a big fluffy dog in his lap! NICE!)
So, I went to Eharmony and spent TWO HOURS filling out their personality test, survey, questions, blah blah blah. After reading my personality profile on the site I thought WOW...they really nailed it. This was the BEST personality test I had ever taken. I read through all the info and how they take their time to find matches that meet you on at least 19 differnt levels. During my 7 day trial I had probaly 15 matches on Eharmony. Eharmony works a lot better than christianmingle did. Everything is really "safe" and private. People can only see your info if you allow them. You can close matches when you want.
Last Saturday I logged on to check the info on eharmony and had a new match. When I looked at this guys info it said he was 5'4", needless to say...WAY to short for me. Then for his occupation it noted "Social Security." Two of the four things he is most thankful for...
"my mom who puts a roof over my head and for social security." After getting this match I wondered how hard eharmony really works to make their matches. Clearly a girl who is 5'11' doesn't match with a guy 5'4". Not to mention on my "must haves, can't stands" I MUST HAVE a guy who is financially stable!
I did communicate on a "closed" level with a couple of guys on eharmony. As I was doing this I was thinking to myself...how do people REALLY get to know each other over the internet?THIS IS CRAZY! I can answer the dudes question any way I want. I can read his profile and manipulate my answers to fit his info. So, how do I know he's not doing the same to me?
Anyway...both 7 day trials are up now...and I'm happy my internet dating life has come to an end. Curiosity got the best of me...but, internet dating is still what I always thought it was! It does work for some people...but, deffinately not for me!
Well, they met on a Christian Internet Dating site. I've heard a lot of talk lately about these sites and thought hmmm...I wonder what this is like. So, out of curiosty and because it made us laugh...JLaw and I signed up on Christian Mingle.com...the same site where Michael and Hayley met. (Note: we did not have any intention of meeting someone for real) The registration process took FOREVER. We had to answer a billion questions and take a really lame personality test. Once the picutures were posted and registration was complete we began to look at our matches. The names these guys chose were CRAZY! They were names like Darkchild, or goodol'christian boy, Deacon519...etc etc etc. Needless to say, Christianminle is a joke. They had you fill out preferences on what ethinicty you are looking for, age requirements and all kinds of other stuff. Jessi and I had 50 and 60 year old men looking at our profies and sending us smiles. Even through I required a caucasion/non hispanic within at least 500 miles of my location I had guys for spain, turkey, africa, and paris sending me their info. By then end of my 7 day free trail...over 300 guys had viewed my profile. Several sent me smiles...others sent me some stupid greeting cards...and there were a few brave souls who sent me emails through the site.
I told my sister about the experiment and she suggested I sign up for EHarmony's free trial to compare the two sites. She knew some people who met on there and said it was really a good site. (She was grossed out by christianmingle when I showed her a photo of a 52 year old man who had sent me an email. He was sitting in his recliner with a big fluffy dog in his lap! NICE!)
So, I went to Eharmony and spent TWO HOURS filling out their personality test, survey, questions, blah blah blah. After reading my personality profile on the site I thought WOW...they really nailed it. This was the BEST personality test I had ever taken. I read through all the info and how they take their time to find matches that meet you on at least 19 differnt levels. During my 7 day trial I had probaly 15 matches on Eharmony. Eharmony works a lot better than christianmingle did. Everything is really "safe" and private. People can only see your info if you allow them. You can close matches when you want.
Last Saturday I logged on to check the info on eharmony and had a new match. When I looked at this guys info it said he was 5'4", needless to say...WAY to short for me. Then for his occupation it noted "Social Security." Two of the four things he is most thankful for...
"my mom who puts a roof over my head and for social security." After getting this match I wondered how hard eharmony really works to make their matches. Clearly a girl who is 5'11' doesn't match with a guy 5'4". Not to mention on my "must haves, can't stands" I MUST HAVE a guy who is financially stable!
I did communicate on a "closed" level with a couple of guys on eharmony. As I was doing this I was thinking to myself...how do people REALLY get to know each other over the internet?THIS IS CRAZY! I can answer the dudes question any way I want. I can read his profile and manipulate my answers to fit his info. So, how do I know he's not doing the same to me?
Anyway...both 7 day trials are up now...and I'm happy my internet dating life has come to an end. Curiosity got the best of me...but, internet dating is still what I always thought it was! It does work for some people...but, deffinately not for me!
posted by Brooke at 9:45:00 AM
1 Comments:
obviously there are good people on the sites...Michael and Hayley met there...we just didn't run accross any during our little experiment.
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