A couple months ago I decided to sign up for Match.com. Us single girls always talk about it, and some have even unsuccessfully been on multiple times, but I've never actually heard of a happily ever after story like they show on the commercial. I decided though that I was going to officially do it to at least say I tried. I created my profile but was pained by the thought of paying $50 to MAYBE get one date. Lucky for me, a friend told me about a Groupon deal: one month subscription for $15! How could I say no!!
The way it works is you create a profile and can view other profiles but, unless you sign up and pay, you can't see any of your messages or what guys winked at you or liked your photos. I paid for the month and discovered that I had 30 messages! And they were all what I'd thought they were gonna be....garbage.
I had tried this years ago with OKCupid which was free. All the messages were the same: inappropriate and from men I had no interest in. Apparently the demographic who find me attractive are large black men and older men who look like my father. None of those descriptions fit what I listed I was looking for. You would think that these sites would filter them better for you.
Most of the profiles are the generic crap of "I'm a funny guy who loves his family and is looking for an amazing girl he can spend the rest of his life with"....aren't we all?? Once you actually rifle through the 1,000+ profiles, you message someone and hope he responds or he messages you and you meet him and hope he slightly resembles his profile pics and isn't just looking to have sex with you. It's the same for guys looking for girls too, I know it. You meet the girl and she's 8 years older than any of her pictures and 30 pounds heavier. I get it. Everyone lies. And someone recently said that to me, 'yeah I put the generic stuff on cuz it's what everyone does. No one really thinks they're gonna meet someone serious'.... Um, so then what are we all doing if no one takes it seriously? And for those who actually are trying, it makes it extremely difficult to weed out who is for real and who 'maybe wants and is ready for a relationship right now...or in the future...or ever'.
After reading the first few emails I realized this effort was going to be fruitless but at least I was going to have some entertaining blog material. Lucky for me, God didn't make me suffer through this nonsense and actually sent me a real live person the week I signed up for Match. Funny the way the world works.
The next post will introduce you to all the things men think are acceptable to say to strange women....
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