Closing My Account

Today, I closed one of my online dating accounts. Don't worry, I am not fully turning in my Online Dating Hat! But like many of the other sites that I have journeyed on, this site had run its course of usefulness. The newly ended subscription was to OkCupid, which is a mostly free dating site. Like all dating sites there was an option to upgrade your account to view with less ads and become a premium member with top listing in searches. I have been on this site for about a year now I think and here are my thoughts on it:

Similar to Plenty of Fish there is WAY too much riff raff on this site. I attribute this to the fact that you can use most of the features on the site for free. They have some sort of matching system based on your answers to questions that they calculate using numbers in some complicated method to produce matches for you. However, I was soooo confused by the people I was matched up with. Some of them kind of made sense, but most of them were just so off the wall that I started really wondering what was going on. I also received little to no response from people that I contacted. But the site can also be so overwhelming: so many matches thrown at you, so many different options on ways to connect, search for people, questions to ask for your profile. The site is trying to be sort of a Facebook for online dating, but I don't know how well that's going to pan out for them.

A few months ago I even turned off my notifications about messages. So instead of receiving an e-mail each time I received a message on my account, I had to log in in order to see if anyone had sent me a message. This was helpful because I realized I checked the site a lot less and was a lot less eager to know right away what a message said. And today, when I logged in I got a message from a TWENTY YEAR OLD!!!!!! What are we doing here OkCupid? I clearly set my matching preferences to a certain age range and you blatantly ignored my wishes! Whats the point of even setting preferences if they will be ignored? Maybe you're thinking, "what an agist!! He could be a very mature 20 year old." But that's not the point. The point is if I order a cheeseburger with no pickles because pickles make me gassy then don't frickin give me a cheeseburger with pickles!!! Is that so hard to do? Would you go back to that McDonald's if they kept messing up your order? Of course not. Sooooo, NEXT!!!!

Focusing,
ODQ

PS Pickles don't really make me gassy. In fact, I adore pickles. Bring on the pickles! The real ones though, not the metaphoric ones.