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How Much is Too Much Info for Your Online Dating Profile?

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

Once again I’m considering sprucing up my online dating profile on a couple of the Internet dating sites that I frequent. I’ve already covered the divorce thing here and I have decided to continue to leave that out of my base profile. Still it is hard to know what you really should include. I’ve been thinking about bringing up a bit of my medical history in that shortly after the arrival of my second child I paid a little visit to the doctor for some alterations. Don’t know if the ladies would be interested in this information or not. Seems like it might be hard to naturally work into an internet dating profile - I was thinking about the following headline:

Shooting Blanks Since Nineteen Ninety One.

jd

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How do Online Dating Sites Know Me So Well?

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

The following is the first appraisal piece (on me) from perfectmatch.com. Their approach is a bit different than the other matchmaking online dating sites in that they focus on you. I am not exactly sure why this section is called the “Similarity Test”. I am pretty sure that I am similar to myself. But they got pretty darn close to pegging me (in fact, they make me seem pretty gosh darn boring) except that I don’t see myself as being totally risk adverse. Anyone who watched me buy 500 shares of GE for $20 a share a month ago could see that. Hmm, maybe I should try to be more similar to myself and be more risk adverse!

Your Similarity Test Results - XBOP 

Risk Averse, Relaxed, Optimistic, Seeks Predictability

You don’t like the idea of a quick romantic connection and tend to be more cautious than not developing a relationship. That doesn’t mean you aren’t romantic. In fact, you are more than less likely to put a relationship at the center of your life. Even though you are an optimistic person, and generally expect life to go well, you think love needs time-and more than your instincts-for you to trust it to last. You are looking for a serious, monogamous relationship and you tend to invest deeply in both people and places.

I can’t really remember the questions that were asked (I always get so wrapped up in the interview that I forget to take notes) but that last sentence is dead-on. How did they figure out about the places?
jd

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Perfect Match Dating with PerfectMatch.com

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

Without much activity on my current Internet dating sites I’ve been looking around the ‘net for some more action. I seem to be drawn to sites that do the work for me (eharmony.com, Chemistry.com, okcupid.com) because none of the other smorgasbord type online dating services have search functions that allow me to really narrow things down to a fine enough point for my liking. Plus - after spending hours reading online dating profile after online dating profile I get everyone all mixed up. This weekend’s find was perfectmatch.com. This dating site forces you to go through their perfect match dating profile generator before you can do anything. The questions weren’t all that different from the personality detectors at eharmony.com or Chemistry.com except that they are really more focused on you (me) instead of who you are looking for.

Perfectmatch.com examines your essence in the following four aspects: Similarity, Complementary, Core Values, and Lovestyle (a term they have trademarked). I am publishing the results of my test to help explain these four classifications. I’ll discuss each determination in later posts.

Your Similarity Test Results - XBOP
Risk Averse, Relaxed, Optimistic, Seeks Predictability

You don’t like the idea of a quick romantic connection and tend to be more cautious than not developing a relationship. That doesn’t mean you aren’t romantic. In fact, you are more than less likely to put a relationship at the center of your life. Even though you are an optimistic person, and generally expect life to go well, you think love needs time-and more than your instincts-for you to trust it to last. You are looking for a serious, monogamous relationship and you tend to invest deeply in both people and places.

Your Complementary Test Results - SCTI
Structured, Compromiser, Temperate, Introvert

You have strong opinions and you like things “just so”. Still, your personality is modified by the fact you are willing to let someone else take the lead. You tend to be the person in the relationship that lets the other person dominate a large number of decisions. Most of the time, that doesn’t bother you. You are more likely to have many private thoughts about what is going on in the relationship (or your life) before sharing your thoughts with a partner. This has some very good aspects to it. You are unlikely to erupt impetuously and cause arguments that way. On the other hand, you will often come to your opinions and conclusions by yourself, rather than through mutual discussion. This can be alienating to an extrovert. You might want someone who is like yourself and understands this. On the other hand, without an extrovert, things may stay bottled up and become big problems that could have been handled easier, earlier.

Your Core Values Assesment

You seem to be a person of many passionately held core values, and probably not limited to the ones above. You will most likely need someone who has similar core values to your own, or at least, in possession of terrific negotiating skills. Sometimes passionate people respect intensely held differences of opinion. Still, this probably means if there is a lot of conflict throughout the relationship, it could endanger your sense of being soul mates. Ultimately, this may undermine your love for one another.

Your Lovestyle (TM)

You want a lot of closeness and affection but you reserve some time and space for yourself. You need a lot of time together- but you could feel suffocated if you were with someone who wanted total closeness.

As a preview - I am impressed with these results.
jd

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Internet Dating Profiles: Careful what you say!

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

OK, I know I have said that I am not here to bash anyone but sometimes you run across a line in an online dating profile that is impossible not to comment on (and that sometimes makes the whole internet dating search worthwhile). I found this gem on Saturday (yes, I was checking out online dating sites on Valentine’s day) and I just have to share it:

The most important thing xxx is looking for in a person is:

    * I want to find a man who wants to go all out in a relationship and have it all. No holes barred.I want to find someone who will be the most important person to me and me to him.

“no holes barred”…..finally a chance at some great aural sex!

jd

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