Mon, 12 Feb 2007
We've All Got Stories
Over the holidays I was bored and signed up for Yahoo! Personals. I wrote my normal, clever, funny profile, uploaded some pics and waited. --Keep in mind, this is the free version- I was just trying out their site. I've tried out Match and JDate and didn't have much luck. When you're searching around for profiles, you have a lot of options. You also have a few options on how your results are displayed. By default the listing is "New to Yahoo". I assume this is so you can hit on the "fresh meat". I like to sort by "Overall Fit". This lists what the system thinks is most likely to be a match. It's usually just a basic keyword match-- oh, they both like wine +1, they both are within each other's "distance" settings, or zipcode +2, etc. It's kind of obvious how Yahoo's works, because as I'm browsing I realized, it must have picked up on the fact that I had an attribute of "I speak Spanish" set in my profile because some of the "fits" were girls who were looking for guys who "and/or" spoke Spanish eg. hispanic/latina girls and/or "berkeley" hippies who lived in Guatemala for a semester. --my profile is vague enough, but you get the drift, I like to travel, I speak spanish, like to cook, like wine, etc. so that fits in with 99% of the women here. As an aside (yes, I'm already making this story too long)- what's up with Asian girls liking Jewboys? Are we a fetish for y'all? (not that I mind). So, I'm perusing my "best fits" and up comes a partial headline:
Latina - Outgoing and Pr (you have to click the headline to read the full profile on the site)
... there's more to read here ...
12 Feb 20:16 | /humor | 4 comment(s)
