To: Darksheare; yall
I found this amusing:
So, I've seen these commercials on late night TV for eHarmony.com and how they are the BEST at putting people together. I love testing new Web sites that say they are "The Best." I dug in with the vim and vigor I only have when on a witch hunt [for code bugs]. I get to the site and am confronted with a standard "high school gradesque" design claiming that "Research proves that eHarmony couples are happier." My interest is piqued! I'm in! Where do I begin?! I opt for the free profile. After 45 minutes of personality profiling, I'm spent. Have you ever applied for a menial minimum wage job that requires you to handle money? Well, I have. They give you a psych test that is almost identical to this one. It's got the same double-talk and asks the same questions using different wording pages later - devices used to see whether your paying attention and to test your truthfulness. Or something similar. It uses super-smart psych algorithms that us mere mortals are too dense to understand. After 45 minutes of bearing my soul to a set of CGI scripts, I wait... "The system is now generating your personal personality profile." Please wait. Please wait. Please wait. Please wait. Jackpot!
"eHarmony has generated your extremely accurate personality profile. Would you now like us to check for compatible matches?" Yeah. What the heck? Why not? So, I click and wait. Please wait. Please wait. Please wait. Then, I get the results: "Your query has zero matches." Might as well have said: "You are an insane jerkwad and will die alone with a handful of grocery items as your only friends. You are unfit to consume our oxygen and should discorporate immediately." No matches. 45 minutes of bearing my soul and no matches. "Holy cow! This thing IS good," I think to myself. But the results are pretty pathetic. In the past, I've used tons of personals services and had the same result - but this one is supposedly "intelligent," so I should just give up and call it a day (according to them). I see no value in the service and it has shown to me no greater value over the "meat market" services like Match.com (or any of their ilk). Happiness isn't found at the other end of the keyboard... or on this end, for that matter.
To: lodwick
Looser!
1,386 posted on
10/14/2003 8:07:34 AM PDT by
null and void
(Did I mention my divorce is final? I think I'll avoid eHarmony...)
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