I was encouraged by a friend to join an online dating site. He said it was the best thing to do to meet people outside your circle of friends. After dating my "best friend" for over a year and going to school that only has 2000 students I was ready to move outside the close circle and reach the vast outside of the world wide web. So I tried a free dating site and then I gave up on that and decided to invest in something that at least is nationally recognized. I joined the most generic dating site in the world: match.com.
I have been on match.com for over a month now and I have met some interested people. It feels nice to get a wink although if someone would wink at me in real life and they didn't talk to me afterwords I would be a little upset. Online flirting is kind of a creepy mess. I mean they should have a bad pick up line for every time someone is interested in you like "is that a mirror in your pants because I can see myself in them?" That is exactly how I feel when someone winks me on match.com.
So match.com decides that it can match you up with people that are uniquely compatible with you. For example, ximena_c and greatinbed2200 are a great fit because you exercise 3 to 4 times a week and so does greatinbed2200. But match.com you are matching me up with greatinbed2200, his username in itself is a key indicator this guy is a jerk. Match.com what are you doing?
Anyway I stopped reading dudes profiles I just look at the pictures. The only way I know how to explain match.com is like shopping for shoes online. Sure I can find a pair of badass kicks but are they going to be comfortable and are they actually going to look like the ones in the picture? Most importantly are they going to pay for my dinner or are they going to ruin my feet?
These are such important questions that match.com doesn't put into consideration when they decide to match me up with greatinbed2200 who i'm sure is more like mediocreinbedandwillcry aftersex. The point is that I don't even bother looking at my winks or at people's profiles who I'm sure put in a lot of effort to make themselves stand out. It is so normal to be on these online dating sites that I'm not afraid to tell people where I've met the guys I've been on dates with and the jerks who never emailed me back.
Right now match.com hasn't found me anyone who has 15 ways of compatibility and even if they do they're completely creepy. I also haven't been on any dates that I have been wowed by and the one guy I was interested in was well, "just not that into me." So maybe instead of looking for my perfect match on match.com today, I'll go shoe shopping instead...
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