Comments on: Warning: Objects May Be Older Than They Appear

By: ack

ack — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:02:00 +0000

part of the reason i went for it with eHarmony was that it was a free communication weekend. so, no $$$ to shell out. unfortuantely, i didn’t meet anyone either, but i suppose it’s better that all it cost me was some time. (rather than time *and* $$$’s.)

coulda been anything, but the religion comment might have meant i was hosed from the get-go. (your basic agnostic here.)

MsQ: where’s the hot pic for us?

By: MsQ

MsQ — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:16:34 +0000

Jill: I noticed that many people will state “photos taken when I was in Hawaii June 2003…” stuff like that. Probably those who’ve had the “So how recent is your photo” question!

You could get your kids to take photos of you. The type of photos you use certain will act as a “filter” for men! I’ve had conservative shots and the age of men who contact me shoots up (like 25+ years older) and when I put a mean/scary photo up just for chuckles, the age of the men who contacted me went down. It was an inneresting experiment. Now I just have a variety – casual, dressed up and one that I thought was cute and maybe a little sexy but one male friend said, “Whoooooaaaaa HOT”

Well, you just never know.

Beer-drinking Sunday school teachers and eHarmony? Who knows? You may be EXACTLY what they’re looking for!

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:52:19 +0000

When I’ve run out of regular stuff to worry about with the whole online dating thing, I sometimes wonder how long it will take *my* pictures to expire! I like the ones I’ve got, but I am almost ALWAYS the one behind the camera, never in front of it.

I have one that a dad of one of my Sunday school kids took for me last year. He’s a professional photographer but that picture will be a year old in December. The other 3 are five months old or less and totally candid, but I doubt I could get pictures like those again either. Guess I won’t worry about it quite yet though – at least they’re not THIRTY years old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Egads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That’s weird about eHarmony! I imagine my profile would be totally unacceptable…except, I do have a religion. Still, probably no category for beer drinking Sunday school teachers (which reminds me, I never did that Geek Train one!!!!!!!!) :-0 :-0 :-0

By: MsQ

MsQ — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:45:22 +0000

ack: I’ve heard that eHarmony rejects many people! Stuff I’ve read said that if you didn’t have some type of religion marked you’d get rejected. Dunno. I *think* it was eHarmony (it had to be a big site) where this friend’s younger sister got rejected because …. she didn’t have enough dating experience – or something. I guess they don’t want uh, virgins? Not sure.

Anyway, the big thing is that I’ve heard that eHarmony rejects people. I *have* heard anecdotal evidence of people meeting and marrying via Match.com! I mean friend-of-a-friend stories.

Your story is just one more for my “no eHarmony” bucket. I think they are $$$$$ and have some long questionnaire. Zzzzzz.

By: ack

ack — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:23:47 +0000

I tried eHarmony once. I’d gotten an e-mail ad so I finall decided to do it. I fill in the profile. It does it’s thing. Instead of coming up with matches, it tells me to zark off.

:-O Okay, it really didn’t say zark off. it was much nicer, but said in some mumbo jumbo that they couldn’t match me. not that they couldn’t match me anyone in the system right now. No, that they couldn’t match my personality. period. Zark off. Go directly some other site. Do not pass go. Do not collect a date. Zark off.

Sweet. If anyone watches me when I’m watching TV, they might wonder why I flip off the eHarmony commercials, but you folks now know.