Comments on: The Official Blog of OkCupid.com Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:17:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: beachshopgirl http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712/comment-page-8/#comment-26720 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:34:41 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712#comment-26720 I really enjoyed reading this article. I’ve done Match.com. I met a wonderful man. Even though we are no longer together, based on your research, I’m lucky to have even met him at all. I’ve also done eHarmony. They kept giving me matches who either couldn’t or wouldn’t communicate with me or that live way far from me. What are we supposed to do send smoke signals?
I like this site so much better and it’s free!

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By: met my match http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712/comment-page-8/#comment-26656 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:58:54 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712#comment-26656 I guess it all depends on your prespective: I met my match on EH and married him last year. For both of us we were each other’s third date and our connection was instantaneous. We were matched within a month of joining and didn’t meet until 3 months after we were matched – because we were both too busy getting to know other matches and going on dates. All of my matches on EH matched me in education level (professional), interests, religion, etc. – basically everything that was important to me. Sure, not every match replied, but I wasn’t looking for 200 dates, I was looking for 1 husband… and I found him.

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By: mga http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712/comment-page-8/#comment-26515 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:10:29 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712#comment-26515 Another very bad thing about Match.com you don’t mention is that they only show you FIVE “matches” PER DAY! That is, if you’re lucky since not every day there are five “quality” matches for you. If you were really intense or desperate and wanted to go through the whole 20 million users (or 10 million from the opposite sex assuming you’re straight and 50/50 distribution) you would need to pay for FIVE THOUSAND YEARS. You can’t just search yourself; you have to wait for their generous super-duper algorithm to send them your way (and pray for profiles with an actual photo).

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By: Still Dreaming http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712/comment-page-8/#comment-26434 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:40:15 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712#comment-26434 Hello, I joined Eharmony for 4 months, its almost about to expire, and I don’t plan to renew, I have virtually had no luck on it. you do through the different guided communication, and most I have gotten to was with the email stage, then later the man closed me out, which they can do at anytime without any explanation, I got alot of men in other states. On this site, I have been on for 2 months, haven’t yet met anyone in person yet, but have talked to 3 men on the phone, also chatted and different email from different men, its been kind of fun, and for this site you can also see when someone is online, Eharmony, you cant, only information if they had visited your profile, and when Eharmony I have over 300 matches, but no luck, with this site, I think its great you can see when people are online, and save your favorites, I have about 30 different favorites, lol, and also chat with different people, I don’t even notice the ads. Now with Eharmony, I suddenly have a match that wants to communicate with me, my subscription is suppose to expire on 012111, I wonder if this man is really for real, or if its just some ploy on Eharmony for me to be a paiding member.!

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By: Meredith http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712/comment-page-8/#comment-25723 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:55:52 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712#comment-25723 I completely agree with this article. I’ve been on numerous dating sites over the years, both free sites and those that charge (though I have never paid myself.) I keep coming back to OKCupid not just because it’s free but because the quality of the site and of the people on here is unmatched anywhere else. I remember being on SparkMatch years and years ago, I’m still friends with several of the people I met on there.

Keep it up, guys! And I’ll keep telling all my single friends to sign up! :)

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By: Deuce Bigelow http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712/comment-page-8/#comment-24500 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:57:47 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712#comment-24500 I tried Salon, I tried Match, I tried OKCupid, I tried a LOT of them. No dice. OKCupid may have been the worst of them all because VERY few of the women were either available or online and the ones I did connect with all were bombed by guys looking for a hookup instead of a date. I never got a single date from OKCupid. I joined Chemistry.com in the Spring of 2009 and actually went on a series of real dates. Some of them were dogs (not in terms of physical beauty, but in terms of being overall duds) and some turned out to be plain ole crazy. But I went on a date in August 2009 and got engaged to her this past June. If I’d stuck to OKCupid, I’d still be wondering why I felt like such a pariah.

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By: whatever http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712/comment-page-8/#comment-24497 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:06:09 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712#comment-24497 I signed up for Match less than a month ago and have already gone on 3 dates…seems to be working fine for me! My buddy signed up about a year ago and has gone on over 15 dates with different girls!

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By: NMonterosso http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712/comment-page-8/#comment-24328 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:12:25 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712#comment-24328 I agree with this post for the main reason of even on the free sites like OkCupid you can send out for example 96 messages and only get possibly if you are really lucky 1 message back, and that’s not even saying it will be a good news message it could be a no thank you message which I have found is rare in itself. So my question to these pay sites is why should I pay to send out 100+ messages and be lucky if I get one response, of course like this article states its so they can make money. Me personally, I would rather use the free sites and save my hard earned money (especially in this economy) to take the woman, that does eventually respond with interest, out on a date. Honestly free or paid it makes no difference 90% of women on these sites don’t even take the time to get to know the people messaging them like most men (I Said Most Not All) on these sites do. The women look at the picture and if the guy doesn’t look like Brad Pitt or Johnny Depp they pass him by and instantly delete the message no matter what their profile says. So in conclusion, free or paid, it doesn’t really matter you get the same results either way, except if you pay you’re basically lighting a match to your money.

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By: steven http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712/comment-page-8/#comment-24295 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:13:59 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712#comment-24295 CR, you have a very good writing style. I just read a few of your articles (Gay sex vs straight, How your race affects, The real stuff white people like, the Big Lies) and it’s really enjoyable to read your stuff – intelligent and entertaining.

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By: Yekereme http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712/comment-page-8/#comment-24206 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:20:17 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=2712#comment-24206 okc, how do You make money?

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